* Old TextMorphEditor removed, ParagraphEditor now unloadable. New stub TextMorphEditor added for legacy support (particularly Connectors) which wraps TextEditor.
* Add host window support, letting you display things in a host window. (Currently only on Windows and Mac.) * Bugfixes in the Compiler, Parser and Debugger toolchain * Stub support for the ability to evolve the bytecode set * Better printing of Floats, hashing of DateAndTimes * ChangeSorter improvements * ToolBuilder improvements * Merged network improvements from Etoys * Monticello browsing can now group versions by branch, making tracking of parallel developments easier * Decreased coupling between core packages * IPv6 support (if your VM provides it)
I've put the first item slightly separate because I'm not sure I summarised things accurately.
If you have suggestions for improvement - particularly if there's something important I've missed - please let me know ASAP. I'd like to have all our ducks in a row by the end of the week.
frank
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Frank Shearar frank.shearar@gmail.comwrote:
I've put the first item slightly separate because I'm not sure I summarised things accurately.
You could just say something like "Cleanup and simplification of Morphic text editing"
On 4 December 2012 19:16, Colin Putney colin@wiresong.com wrote:
Cleanup and simplification of Morphic text editing
That's exactly what I want: why the user should care.
Thanks!
frank
On 4 December 2012 20:30, Frank Shearar frank.shearar@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 December 2012 19:16, Colin Putney colin@wiresong.com wrote:
Cleanup and simplification of Morphic text editing
That's exactly what I want: why the user should care.
Right. I now have a Workspace with the changelog all nicely marked up. I need to turn that into something I can put in the ReleaseBuilder. I thought I could just explore my way to the Text instance with my stuff, and do something like (WriteStream on: String new) nextChunkPutWithStyle: self). Which is fine, but I need to turn that into something like TheWorldMainDockingBar >> #welcomeToSqueak43. What am I missing?
frank
Something like ===================== TheWorldMainDockingBar compile: 'welcomeWhatever
^',(self contents printStringLimitedTo: 100000),' readStream nextChunkText' =======================
where self is your WriteStream
Cheers, Bob
On 12/5/12 10:41 AM, Frank Shearar wrote:
On 4 December 2012 20:30, Frank Shearar frank.shearar@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 December 2012 19:16, Colin Putney colin@wiresong.com wrote:
Cleanup and simplification of Morphic text editing
That's exactly what I want: why the user should care.
Right. I now have a Workspace with the changelog all nicely marked up. I need to turn that into something I can put in the ReleaseBuilder. I thought I could just explore my way to the Text instance with my stuff, and do something like (WriteStream on: String new) nextChunkPutWithStyle: self). Which is fine, but I need to turn that into something like TheWorldMainDockingBar >> #welcomeToSqueak43. What am I missing?
frank
On 2012-12-05 11:41 AM, Bob Arning wrote:
Something like
TheWorldMainDockingBar compile: 'welcomeWhatever
^',(self contents printStringLimitedTo: 100000),' readStream nextChunkText' =======================
where self is your WriteStream
Cheers, Bob
On 12/5/12 10:41 AM, Frank Shearar wrote:
On 4 December 2012 20:30, Frank Sheararfrank.shearar@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 December 2012 19:16, Colin Putneycolin@wiresong.com wrote:
Cleanup and simplification of Morphic text editing
That's exactly what I want: why the user should care.
Right. I now have a Workspace with the changelog all nicely marked up. I need to turn that into something I can put in the ReleaseBuilder. I thought I could just explore my way to the Text instance with my stuff, and do something like (WriteStream on: String new) nextChunkPutWithStyle: self). Which is fine, but I need to turn that into something like TheWorldMainDockingBar >> #welcomeToSqueak43. What am I missing?
frank
I think Frank is asking for help about a question I couldn't answer. It's weird, because I found some solution to this when I released 4.3. The question might be phrased: how do you file out an instance?
Andreas did something, and it's baffling. If you go to TheWorldMainDockingBar>>#welcomeToSqueak43 you see the text of the docking bar menu selection Help>>WelcomeWorkspaces>>WelcomeToSqueak4.3. But here's the twist, it contains the styles at the bottom:
'Morphic - SMxMorphicProject now able to host a SimpleMorphic World - when present a SMxMorphicProject is made available in the World menu ! ]style[(24 75 10 48 9 34 18 152 4 69 14 667 8 120 1 1 7 131)FBitstreamVeraSans#20.0,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,!' readStream nextChunkText
This string fed to TheWorldMainDockingBar spits out a fully formatted Workspace.
TheWorldMainDockingBar instance showWelcomeText: #welcomeToSqueak43 label: 'Welcome to Squeak 4.3' in: (200 @ 200 extent: 500 @ 300)
By hand, Frank has crafted a Welcome workspace with the underlines, bold, and fonts to his taste. Now he wants to know what to do to produce a string that can be saved as a method.
Chris
On 12/5/12 12:35 PM, Chris Cunnington wrote:
On 2012-12-05 11:41 AM, Bob Arning wrote:
Something like
TheWorldMainDockingBar compile: 'welcomeWhatever
^',(self contents printStringLimitedTo: 100000),' readStream nextChunkText' =======================
where self is your WriteStream
Cheers, Bob
On 12/5/12 10:41 AM, Frank Shearar wrote:
On 4 December 2012 20:30, Frank Sheararfrank.shearar@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 December 2012 19:16, Colin Putneycolin@wiresong.com wrote:
Cleanup and simplification of Morphic text editing
That's exactly what I want: why the user should care.
Right. I now have a Workspace with the changelog all nicely marked up. I need to turn that into something I can put in the ReleaseBuilder. I thought I could just explore my way to the Text instance with my stuff, and do something like (WriteStream on: String new) nextChunkPutWithStyle: self). Which is fine, but I need to turn that into something like TheWorldMainDockingBar >> #welcomeToSqueak43. What am I missing?
frank
I think Frank is asking for help about a question I couldn't answer. It's weird, because I found some solution to this when I released 4.3. The question might be phrased: how do you file out an instance?
Andreas did something, and it's baffling. If you go to TheWorldMainDockingBar>>#welcomeToSqueak43 you see the text of the docking bar menu selection Help>>WelcomeWorkspaces>>WelcomeToSqueak4.3. But here's the twist, it contains the styles at the bottom:
'Morphic
- SMxMorphicProject now able to host a SimpleMorphic World
- when present a SMxMorphicProject is made available in the World menu
! ]style[(24 75 10 48 9 34 18 152 4 69 14 667 8 120 1 1 7 131)FBitstreamVeraSans#20.0,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,!' readStream nextChunkText
This string fed to TheWorldMainDockingBar spits out a fully formatted Workspace.
TheWorldMainDockingBar instance showWelcomeText: #welcomeToSqueak43 label: 'Welcome to Squeak 4.3' in: (200 @ 200 extent: 500 @ 300)
By hand, Frank has crafted a Welcome workspace with the underlines, bold, and fonts to his taste. Now he wants to know what to do to produce a string that can be saved as a method.
I think this does it: ===================== TheWorldMainDockingBar compile: 'welcomeWhatever
^',(((WriteStream on: String new) nextChunkPutWithStyle: aText) contents printStringLimitedTo: 100000),' readStream nextChunkText' =====================
when aText is the Text with your pretty text, you get: ================================= welcomeWhatever
^'Bob is bold! ]style[(3 8)f5b,f1!' readStream nextChunkText ===============================
compiled into TheWorldMainDockingBar.
Cheers, Bob
Chris
On 2012-12-05 12:55 PM, Bob Arning wrote:
On 12/5/12 12:35 PM, Chris Cunnington wrote:
On 2012-12-05 11:41 AM, Bob Arning wrote:
Something like
TheWorldMainDockingBar compile: 'welcomeWhatever
^',(self contents printStringLimitedTo: 100000),' readStream nextChunkText' =======================
where self is your WriteStream
Cheers, Bob
On 12/5/12 10:41 AM, Frank Shearar wrote:
On 4 December 2012 20:30, Frank Sheararfrank.shearar@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 December 2012 19:16, Colin Putneycolin@wiresong.com wrote:
Cleanup and simplification of Morphic text editing
That's exactly what I want: why the user should care.
Right. I now have a Workspace with the changelog all nicely marked up. I need to turn that into something I can put in the ReleaseBuilder. I thought I could just explore my way to the Text instance with my stuff, and do something like (WriteStream on: String new) nextChunkPutWithStyle: self). Which is fine, but I need to turn that into something like TheWorldMainDockingBar >> #welcomeToSqueak43. What am I missing?
frank
I think Frank is asking for help about a question I couldn't answer. It's weird, because I found some solution to this when I released 4.3. The question might be phrased: how do you file out an instance?
Andreas did something, and it's baffling. If you go to TheWorldMainDockingBar>>#welcomeToSqueak43 you see the text of the docking bar menu selection Help>>WelcomeWorkspaces>>WelcomeToSqueak4.3. But here's the twist, it contains the styles at the bottom:
'Morphic
- SMxMorphicProject now able to host a SimpleMorphic World
- when present a SMxMorphicProject is made available in the World menu
! ]style[(24 75 10 48 9 34 18 152 4 69 14 667 8 120 1 1 7 131)FBitstreamVeraSans#20.0,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,!' readStream nextChunkText
This string fed to TheWorldMainDockingBar spits out a fully formatted Workspace.
TheWorldMainDockingBar instance showWelcomeText: #welcomeToSqueak43 label: 'Welcome to Squeak 4.3' in: (200 @ 200 extent: 500 @ 300)
By hand, Frank has crafted a Welcome workspace with the underlines, bold, and fonts to his taste. Now he wants to know what to do to produce a string that can be saved as a method.
I think this does it:
TheWorldMainDockingBar compile: 'welcomeWhatever
^',(((WriteStream on: String new) nextChunkPutWithStyle: aText) contents printStringLimitedTo: 100000),' readStream nextChunkText' =====================
when aText is the Text with your pretty text, you get:
welcomeWhatever
^'Bob is bold! ]style[(3 8)f5b,f1!' readStream nextChunkText ===============================
compiled into TheWorldMainDockingBar.
Cheers, Bob
Works for me. Very nifty.
Chris
Chris Cunnington wrote
This string fed to TheWorldMainDockingBar spits out a fully formatted Workspace.
TheWorldMainDockingBar instance showWelcomeText: #welcomeToSqueak43 label: 'Welcome to Squeak 4.3' in: (200 @ 200 extent: 500 @ 300)
By hand, Frank has crafted a Welcome workspace with the underlines, bold, and fonts to his taste. Now he wants to know what to do to produce a string that can be saved as a method.
Just accept the text? Have you tried this? Because if you look at #showWelcomeText:label:in: in my Squeak (4.4-12292) it says:
"Change the following to allow editing the text" true ifTrue:[
In other words, editing is enabled. If it's disabled for you you might want to change this line. Then just edit away and accept.
Cheers, - Andreas
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On 6 December 2012 10:03, Andreas.Raab andreas.raab@gmx.de wrote:
Chris Cunnington wrote
This string fed to TheWorldMainDockingBar spits out a fully formatted Workspace.
TheWorldMainDockingBar instance showWelcomeText: #welcomeToSqueak43 label: 'Welcome to Squeak 4.3' in: (200 @ 200 extent: 500 @ 300)
By hand, Frank has crafted a Welcome workspace with the underlines, bold, and fonts to his taste. Now he wants to know what to do to produce a string that can be saved as a method.
Just accept the text? Have you tried this? Because if you look at #showWelcomeText:label:in: in my Squeak (4.4-12292) it says:
"Change the following to allow editing the text" true ifTrue:[In other words, editing is enabled. If it's disabled for you you might want to change this line. Then just edit away and accept.
As I mentioned to Bert, the key in all this is that "just accept it" works if the Workspace's acceptAction is set to something special. This is highly non-obvious to someone like myself (or presumable Chris Cunnington), who lack the in-depth experience you and Bert share.
So in particular, I've solved the problem. We'll use #welcomeToSqueak as the basis for the welcome text, rather than the version-specific #welcomeToSqueak43, so that for the next release it _will_ be as simple as "open the welcome Workspace, edit it, and accept". And I've added an item to the 4.5 wishlist (wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6189) to pull this out of Morphic: it seems silly to have to touch Morphic at all to update a new version of Squeak.
frank
Cheers,
- Andreas
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On 2012-12-06 5:33 AM, Frank Shearar wrote:
On 6 December 2012 10:03, Andreas.Raab andreas.raab@gmx.de wrote:
Chris Cunnington wrote
This string fed to TheWorldMainDockingBar spits out a fully formatted Workspace.
TheWorldMainDockingBar instance showWelcomeText: #welcomeToSqueak43 label: 'Welcome to Squeak 4.3' in: (200 @ 200 extent: 500 @ 300)
By hand, Frank has crafted a Welcome workspace with the underlines, bold, and fonts to his taste. Now he wants to know what to do to produce a string that can be saved as a method.
Just accept the text? Have you tried this? Because if you look at #showWelcomeText:label:in: in my Squeak (4.4-12292) it says:
"Change the following to allow editing the text" true ifTrue:[In other words, editing is enabled. If it's disabled for you you might want to change this line. Then just edit away and accept.
As I mentioned to Bert, the key in all this is that "just accept it" works if the Workspace's acceptAction is set to something special. This is highly non-obvious to someone like myself (or presumable Chris Cunnington), who lack the in-depth experience you and Bert share.
Oh my, yes.
So in particular, I've solved the problem. We'll use #welcomeToSqueak as the basis for the welcome text, rather than the version-specific #welcomeToSqueak43, so that for the next release it _will_ be as simple as "open the welcome Workspace, edit it, and accept". And I've added an item to the 4.5 wishlist (wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6189) to pull this out of Morphic: it seems silly to have to touch Morphic at all to update a new version of Squeak.
Nice. Sounds like a plan.
Chris
On 12/6/12 5:33 AM, Frank Shearar wrote:
As I mentioned to Bert, the key in all this is that "just accept it" works if the Workspace's acceptAction is set to something special. This is highly non-obvious to someone like myself (or presumable Chris Cunnington), who lack the in-depth experience you and Bert share.
I didn't realize that was there until Bert pointed it out. It might be nice if Workspace had a visual indicator, like an * with help available, in the titlebar whenever this accept action exists. Might help people find places where this is useful as well as avoid invoking some action they are not aware of.
Cheers, Bob
On 2012-12-05, at 16:41, Frank Shearar frank.shearar@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 December 2012 20:30, Frank Shearar frank.shearar@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 December 2012 19:16, Colin Putney colin@wiresong.com wrote:
Cleanup and simplification of Morphic text editing
That's exactly what I want: why the user should care.
Right. I now have a Workspace with the changelog all nicely marked up. I need to turn that into something I can put in the ReleaseBuilder. I thought I could just explore my way to the Text instance with my stuff, and do something like (WriteStream on: String new) nextChunkPutWithStyle: self). Which is fine, but I need to turn that into something like TheWorldMainDockingBar >> #welcomeToSqueak43. What am I missing?
frank
Huh? Simply accept the welcome workspace. That regenerates the method.
- Bert -
On 05 Dec 2012, at 18:21, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On 2012-12-05, at 16:41, Frank Shearar frank.shearar@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 December 2012 20:30, Frank Shearar frank.shearar@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 December 2012 19:16, Colin Putney colin@wiresong.com wrote:
Cleanup and simplification of Morphic text editing
That's exactly what I want: why the user should care.
Right. I now have a Workspace with the changelog all nicely marked up. I need to turn that into something I can put in the ReleaseBuilder. I thought I could just explore my way to the Text instance with my stuff, and do something like (WriteStream on: String new) nextChunkPutWithStyle: self). Which is fine, but I need to turn that into something like TheWorldMainDockingBar >> #welcomeToSqueak43. What am I missing?
frank
Huh? Simply accept the welcome workspace. That regenerates the method.
- Bert -
Only if the Workspace has the right acceptAction, which happens to be the case if you write the stub implementation and spawn the welcome workspaces from the ReleaseBuilder. Right. I'll be sure to add this to the release manager note file. Thanks, Bert! Very easy... once you know how!
frank
On 2012-12-05, at 20:32, Frank Shearar frank.shearar@gmail.com wrote:
On 05 Dec 2012, at 18:21, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On 2012-12-05, at 16:41, Frank Shearar frank.shearar@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 December 2012 20:30, Frank Shearar frank.shearar@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 December 2012 19:16, Colin Putney colin@wiresong.com wrote:
Cleanup and simplification of Morphic text editing
That's exactly what I want: why the user should care.
Right. I now have a Workspace with the changelog all nicely marked up. I need to turn that into something I can put in the ReleaseBuilder. I thought I could just explore my way to the Text instance with my stuff, and do something like (WriteStream on: String new) nextChunkPutWithStyle: self). Which is fine, but I need to turn that into something like TheWorldMainDockingBar >> #welcomeToSqueak43. What am I missing?
frank
Huh? Simply accept the welcome workspace. That regenerates the method.
- Bert -
Only if the Workspace has the right acceptAction, which happens to be the case if you write the stub implementation and spawn the welcome workspaces from the ReleaseBuilder. Right.
No. You simply open any of the Welcome Workspaces from the Help menu. ReleaseBuilder just has a convenience method to open all of them - which it needs to do for the out-of-box experience.
- Bert -
I'll be sure to add this to the release manager note file. Thanks, Bert! Very easy... once you know how!
frank
On 5 December 2012 19:57, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On 2012-12-05, at 20:32, Frank Shearar frank.shearar@gmail.com wrote:
On 05 Dec 2012, at 18:21, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de wrote:
On 2012-12-05, at 16:41, Frank Shearar frank.shearar@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 December 2012 20:30, Frank Shearar frank.shearar@gmail.com wrote:
On 4 December 2012 19:16, Colin Putney colin@wiresong.com wrote:
Cleanup and simplification of Morphic text editing
That's exactly what I want: why the user should care.
Right. I now have a Workspace with the changelog all nicely marked up. I need to turn that into something I can put in the ReleaseBuilder. I thought I could just explore my way to the Text instance with my stuff, and do something like (WriteStream on: String new) nextChunkPutWithStyle: self). Which is fine, but I need to turn that into something like TheWorldMainDockingBar >> #welcomeToSqueak43. What am I missing?
frank
Huh? Simply accept the welcome workspace. That regenerates the method.
- Bert -
Only if the Workspace has the right acceptAction, which happens to be the case if you write the stub implementation and spawn the welcome workspaces from the ReleaseBuilder. Right.
No. You simply open any of the Welcome Workspaces from the Help menu. ReleaseBuilder just has a convenience method to open all of them - which it needs to do for the out-of-box experience.
Well, that might be so, but the important part is the acceptAction, which a normal Workspace (spawned off the Tools menus) has not got.
frank
- Bert -
I'll be sure to add this to the release manager note file. Thanks, Bert! Very easy... once you know how!
frank
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