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[Pharo-Users] Symbolic links
by Valentin Ryckewaert April 24, 2016

April 24, 2016

Hello everyone, does someone know a way to get the real path of a symlink? I explain: -I have a file '/home/aPath/test.txt' -I have a symlink '/home/aPath/link' pointing on test.txt I would like to see if the symlink really point on the file and may be, get the real path of it, is there a way to do it? If someone have more information I would like to discuss about it ! :) Valentin

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Software update, does it work?
by Hilaire April 24, 2016

April 24, 2016

Hi, I want to review Pharo5. So I updated my existing installation #50660 (already previously updated). I have errors on software update, as unfound .mcz package? Hilaire -- Dr. Geo http://drgeo.eu

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UserManager class missing in Pharo 5
by kmo April 24, 2016

April 24, 2016

The UserManager class has disappeared in Pharo 5. I was using it as a convenient way to restrict what a user can do with a delivered application: UserManager currentUser permissions isRoot: false. Is the class gone for good? Is there a equivalent in Pharo 5? -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/UserManager-class-missing-in-Pharo-5-tp4891617.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Strange behaviour with traits
by Hilaire April 24, 2016

April 24, 2016

Hi, I have noted somehow that some of my traits get altered by the Pharo (Nautilus, source code import, Trait system?): I have traits of trait, and some got inherited methods turned as trait methods (duplicated from the parent trait). Any one seen strange unreliable behaviour with traits? Hilaire -- Dr. Geo http://drgeo.eu

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Pillar: PRTemplate?
by Martin Dias April 23, 2016

April 23, 2016

Hi Pillar developers, A method in Ecstatic [1] references a class named PRTemplate (as well as PRTemplateError), which probably existed in a previous version of Pillar. Do you know what happened to it? I'm trying to update Ecstatic code to work with latest Pillar version released. Regards, Martin [1]: https://github.com/guillep/ecstatic

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Tabular ODS import
by Alistair Grant April 22, 2016

April 22, 2016

Hi All, I've been working on the ODS importer for the Tabular package (http://ss3.gemtalksystems.com/ss/Tabular.html) and wanted to offer the opportunity for feedback before updating the code as it is likely to affect existing users. While the class structure of Tabular is designed to support multiple formats in theory, in practice the existing implementation is quite XLSX specific. I think that trying to extend the core Tabular classes to be a superset of all the functionality from the various formats (XLSX, ODS, etc.) will not be practical - I don't have a good enough understanding of all the formats to implement it in the first place, and certainly not to resolve conflicting attributes in any sensible way. The approach I've taken is to make the existing classes, which were intended to be format independent, abstract and create format specific subclasses, i.e. the existing TabularCell and TabularStyle become: TabularCell TabularXLSXCell TabularODSCell TabularStyle TabularXLSXStyle TabularODSStyle The modified code runs the existing test suite successfully without any modifications. I welcome any comments, suggestions, etc. Also, Tabular currently loads PharoExtras/XMLWriter and PharoExtras/XMLParser as dependencies. I've been using XMLSupport, which I thought I remembered reading was a replacement for XMLWriter and XMLParser, but now I can't find the reference. Is one generally preferred over the other? Thanks very much, Alistair

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About Traits
by Julien Delplanque April 22, 2016

April 22, 2016

Hello, I have a question about Trait. Is it ok, in the design point of view, to use them to force an object to implement an interface? Like that it would be possible to check (via an #assert: for example) if a class provides the interface required. I read some things I found on the net about Traits and already used TComparable but I never created one myself and I am not sure to understand this concept entirely. Thanks in advance! Julien

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ensureCreateFile
by Valentin Ryckewaert April 22, 2016

April 22, 2016

Hi, I would like to have your opinion about what you want ensureCreateFile to do. According to me ensureCreateFile should do the same thing as ensureCreateDirectory + create the file in the last directory given but in its implementation if the parents of this file doesn't exist we get an Exception. Is it wanted or an error? Valentin.

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Trapping the Pharo window close event
by kmo April 22, 2016

April 22, 2016

How do you get rid of that "Quit Pharo without saving message" that comes up when you try to close the Pharo window? I want to just let the user exit without any message or perhaps replace the message with one of my own. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Trapping-the-Pharo-window-close-event-tp4890079.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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remove unused variables
by Peter UhnÃ¡k April 22, 2016

April 22, 2016

The editor used to inform when there was an unused local variable and offered to remove it. Is it possible to get this behavior back, or is it a feature regression with the "new" (this changed some time ago) editor? Thanks, Peter

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