One-click plugin development

Bert Freudenberg bert at impara.de
Mon Jul 10 10:34:19 UTC 2006


I found myself doing this a gazillion times over the last days: click  
the VMMaker's "generate plugin" button, switch to XCode, invoke the  
plugin build, switch back to Squeak, unload the plugin to test the  
new one.

No more.

A few lines of code automate all of this:

VMMaker>>generateExternalPlugins
	...
	externalPlugins size = 1 ifTrue: [
		| result |
		logger show: 'XCode: building ', externalPlugins first, ' ... '.
		result := Applescript doIt: 'tell application "XCode" to build'.
		logger show: result; cr.
		(result beginsWith: '"Build succeeded')
			ifTrue: [Smalltalk unloadModule: externalPlugins first]
			ifFalse: [Applescript doIt: 'tell application "XCode" to activate']].

Now I just click "generate plugin" and debug on. Life is bright  
again. Except for the occasional crash, of course :)

- Bert -




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