On Monday 24 May 2004 07:52 am, Romain Robbes wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> 	You read right, I'm going to talk about vaporware ;-).
> Well, not quite in fact, as some of you might on their computers
> something
> close to what I'd like to do, albeit in a different area : iTunes.
>
> Specifically, I have played a bit with iTunes'  "smart playlists", and
> I think something
> similar could be implemented for browsing code in squeak (the concept
> is not quite new
> in fact, these playlists are just requests to a database in disguise,
> such as "select
> all songs form artist X longer than 5 minutes that I have rated 4 stars
> of more").
>
> You could then perform requests such as :
>
> -tests :  select all methods from package X, starting with "test"
> -non-tests : select all methods from package X, except those in "tests"
> -tested : select all methods in "non-tests", who are sent by methods in
> "tests"
> -hierarchy : select all methods from class X's hierarchy
> -recent : select the 50 latest methods accepted
> -private : select all methods from class C only sent by methods in C
> -protected : select all methods from class X only sent methods in C's
> hierarchy
> -public : select all methods in class X who are not in "private" or
> "protected"
> -undocumented : select all classes who's comment is nonexistant ;-)
>
> The interface could be the one of a message list, maybe stealing
> iTunes' browser,
> which looks really a lot like a smalltak browser already ;-).
>
> I think this kind of tool is currently missing as it could allow a much
> faster navigation
> in the system, as there is a lot of information that could be used this
> way.
>
> Regular browsers, or stacked code panes like Whisker's ones could then
> be used to
> actually edit code ;-).
>
> What do you think of that ?

Sounds great to me, although I don't know why you would need to on another 
browser to edit.  Perhaps when you click on a method or class declaration the 
browser could extend to show an editor pane (or just have the editor pane 
always available).

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