[ANN] StarBrowser v4 on SqueakMap

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Sat Dec 7 08:27:29 UTC 2002


Hi Ned and Doug

Ned this is really good to see our ideas moving like that. CONTINUE. 
you got the essence of SB:
a powerful plug for tools.
For the pane division this is really something that we were discussing 
with roel.
I was also telling to roel that I would like to have colors or tags. 
Colors really to identify
the classes I'm working in.

- Ned for the methods I change the labelItemize to have
	>> selector (class) instead of class >> selector
	because normally you browse a method in the context of a class.

Doug the idea behind the star browser is not to compete with other 
browser but to provide
the infrastructure so that other browsers can be visualized in.
- the first level of integration is I click on the classification and 
RB shows up
- the second level is from RB I can do a rename of methods but only 
within the scope of
currently available classification


You remember when I told you that the top left pane in wiskher was not 
good and that
we were developing the technology for that. Now you have it. So what 
would be great is to see how
you can integrate Wiskher with SB. For roel and I, we are happy to give 
it. Roel is maintaining the model part and roel will produce a dialect 
independent model. And we are ****really****
happy to see what ned is doing. PLEASE continue.

Roel and Ned: we should really rename extensional and intensional by
enumerated and computed. Please do it now else these &(*&*& names will 
creep into the interface.


Now it is arriving to the state where everybody can use it.

Andreas you should look at it now. This is much better than the version 
1 ;)






On vendredi, décembre 6, 2002, at 06:24  pm, Doug Way wrote:

>
> Stephen Pair wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Ned (and Roel)!  This is really nice.
>>
>> Couple of things that would be neat to add to this:
>>
>>   - Drag-n-Drop of SMLoader packages into the Star Browser
>>   - Whisker Brower's (by Doug Way) ability to to multiple selections
>> (and automatically divide up the real estate)
>
> FYI, I've been doing some work on the Whisker Browser over the last 
> week, and I plan on putting it up on SqueakMap sometime this weekend 
> for people to play with.
>
> It is interesting to think about the Star Browser, Whisker Browser, 
> and the Refactoring Browser, and how they all tackle different 
> problems.  You could integrate the features of two or even all three 
> of these into one super browser. :-)
>
> - Doug Way
>
>
Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch) 
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
  "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do
  different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today
  might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes





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