I wrote:
I wasn't aware that one can livecode JS objects with PharoJS, only that PharoJS generates JS source which eventually runs in a browser. Can you give an example?
Well, I evaluated the PharoJS playground expressions, and browsed around the proxy support in the index.js that gets installed in a web browser. I could inject the PjLoadForTest class into the web browser and invoke its JS functions via Smalltalk messages from Pharo. I could send #at:put: to the exposed "window" proxy of the web browser (as long as the arguments were JS literals or proxies), and I could also inspect the "document" proxy, but I got an exception when I tried to invoke document.getElementWithId (via "bridge evalBlock: [document getElementById: 'someID']"). Are arbitrary JS messages supposed to work? There isn't much exception handling support beyond relaying JS error messages. (I guess one way to go would be to use the Chrome Debugging Protocol.) I didn't see how to refer to Smalltalk objects from JS (only JS objects from Smalltalk), so it seems the only Smalltalk blocks one can use as JS callback functions are those which only use objects and functions in JS-land. This might be okay for smoke-testing PharoJS apps, but I think the kind of interactive DOM object sketching I mentioned before would be uncomfortable. -C -- Craig Latta Black Page Digital Amsterdam :: San Francisco craig@blackpagedigital.com +31 6 2757 7177 (SMS ok) + 1 415 287 3547 (no SMS)