Browsing files and porting apps ...

Maloney johnm at wdi.disney.com
Thu Apr 2 16:29:35 UTC 1998


Cool!

>Since I was tired to hack plain text files when trying to port some stuff
>to Squeak I've put a FileContentsBrowser on the UIUC server. The idea is
>that while the class browser is a great tool it can currently not be used
>to give us a "structured view" on a (syntactically correct) Smalltalk
>source code file. That's exactly what the FileContentsBrowser is doing.
>It just scans the file and you can browse the classes and methods of this
>file _without_ having to actually install it. 
>
>I found it very helpful when porting stuff even though it's very simple
>at the moment (you cannot modify anything). Also, I like it much more to
>review changes than the current change list. Another reason I put this
>onto the server is the recent discussion about where to put applications
>such that people are aware of it. One could easily think of adding some
>ftp support to it such that you can browse the contents of any application
>on any ftp server around the world.
>
>Just try it!
>  Andreas





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