[Newbies] Re: basicFormat method missing in SHTextStylerST80?

[Milan Zimmermann]

Mark,

This is interesting .. also, at this level, I suspect you may get more 
comments on the squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org list...

Milan
On 2006 July 3 03:11, Mark Aufflick wrote:
> Sorry for writing a question and answering it a minute later! Here is
> the code for PluggableSVIShoutMapMorph>>preStyleText that gives fully
> colorised text in the browser's editor:
>
> preStyleText: t
>
> 	|aText|
>
> 	(Preferences syntaxHighlightingAsYouType not or: [t size > self
> styleSizeLimit])
> 		ifTrue:[^t].
>
> 	styler
> 		ifNil: [ ^t ]
> 		ifNotNil:[styler
> 					classOrMetaClass: svi selectedClassOrMetaClass;
> 					format: (aText := styler styledTextFor: t asText).
> 				^aText].
>
> On 7/3/06, Mark Aufflick <mark-st at aufflick.com> wrote:
> > What do you know, using format: works too (inherited from
> > SHTextStyler) and gives standard styling (eg bold etc), but no shout
> > style colorisation.
> >
> > On 7/3/06, Mark Aufflick <mark-st at aufflick.com> wrote:
> > > BTW, the line quoted is from PluggableSVIShoutMapMorph>>preStyleText.
> > > If I replace basicStyle: with unstyledTextFrom: (the only method
> > > listed in the 'converting' catgory of SHTextStylerST80's instance
> > > methods) the browser will launch, but I don't have styled text...
> > >
> > > On 7/3/06, Mark Aufflick <mark-st at aufflick.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > >
> > > > I think that my smalltalk conversion will be much nicer if I can get
> > > > the SVI emacs-like environments up and running.
> > > >
> > > > The editor and workspace work great, but the SVI ClassBrowser  fails
> > > > at the following point:
> > > >
> > > >         basicStyle: (aText _ styler basicFormat: t asText).
> > > >
> > > > Where styler is an instance of SHTextStylerST80. Problem is it has no
> > > > basicFormat method. The only reference to a basicFOrmat method via
> > > > google is:
> > > >
> > > > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2004-April/077
> > > >901.html
> > > >
> > > > which is hardly useful in this case, although it does point to the
> > > > function of the method.
> > > >
> > > > First, can anyone suggest a change to the code or a wrapper
> > > > implementation of basicFOrmat?
> > > >
> > > > This also points to a challenge that the ST community has with
> > > > regards to it's use of traditional SCM. Since most coding projects
> > > > (say Rails) use a "standard" text based SCM like CVS or subversion,
> > > > they can run simple web interfaces allowing access to all versions of
> > > > all source files. A huge benefit of that is that I can google for
> > > > some class and method names (that may be in either an upcoming
> > > > version or may have been deprecated years ago) and I will often find
> > > > the source that implements that method which is a good starting
> > > > point, even if noone has ever mentioned my specific issue.
> > > >
> > > > There don't seem to be any such online viewable repositories of, say,
> > > > the squeak core. Is there any kind of repositary that would be
> > > > suitable for putting a read only web front end on? Ideally with more
> > > > granularity than just the snapshots of released image versions.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Mark.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Mark Aufflick
> > > >  e: mark at pumptheory.com
> > > >  w: mark.aufflick.com
> > > >  p: +61 438 700 647
> > > >  f: +61 2 9436 4737
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mark Aufflick
> > >  e: mark at pumptheory.com
> > >  w: mark.aufflick.com
> > >  p: +61 438 700 647
> > >  f: +61 2 9436 4737
> >
> > --
> > Mark Aufflick
> >  e: mark at pumptheory.com
> >  w: mark.aufflick.com
> >  p: +61 438 700 647
> >  f: +61 2 9436 4737