[squeak-dev] Re: Cleaning up after colorPrint removal in Inbox *please read*

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Sun Aug 23 20:49:37 UTC 2009


It's looking very good. Nice job!

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Ronald Spengler wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I spent some time today looking into what cruft might be left behind 
> after sloughing colorPrint out of the system browser in favor of Shout. 
> What I found was: somewhat tangled and messy dependencies.
> 
> My main goal for the day was cleanly removing the preference 
> #colorWhenPrettyPrinting. Note that I may have removed more than what 
> was actually necessary, e.g., ShoutCore seems to disable the 
> colorWhenPrettyPrinting preference on install, and I removed that line, 
> since the preference would be gone.
> 
> Methods changed:
> 
> Text>>askIfAddStyle:req: (Collections)
> Compiler>>format:in:notifying:contentsSymbol: (Compiler)
> SHTextStylerST80>>initializePreferences (ShoutCore ...this is ironic...)
> 
> There were a lot of changes in the System category:
> 
> Preferences>>
> colorWhenPrettyPrinting (removed)
> defaultValueTableForCurrentRelease
> smallLandPreferences
> 
> SystemDictionary>>
> testFormatter
> testFormatter2
> 
> And yet more in tools:
> 
> ChangeSorter>>setContents
> 
> CodeHolder>>
> colorPrintString (removed)
> contentsSymbol
> showingColorPrint (removed)
> sourceStringPrettifiedAndDiffed
> toggleColorPrint (removed)
> 
> FileContentsBrowser>>selectedMessage
> 
> The most disturbing thing that I saw on my Sunday drive was the method 
> #format:in:notifying:contentsSymbol: in Compiler (on both class and 
> instance sides). It looks as though the argument aSymbol is checked for 
> equality to #colorPrint, colorizing text the old way if so, and that's 
> the only thing it's used for. Thus, the method signature could stand to 
> be simplified, if it weren't for the fact that this one has other 
> senders, meaning yet more code churn; I'm hesitant to mess with the 
> signature of a Compiler method at this point, but doing so anyway for at 
> least the sake of experiment, I've changed:
> 
> Compiler>>
> format:in:notifying:contentsSymbol: (removed)
> format:in:notifying:contentsSymbol: (removed)
> format:in:notifying: (added)
> format:in:notifying: (added)
> 
> In addition to applying the above, I had to do:
> 
> Preferences removePreference: #colorWhenPrettyPrinting
> 
> ... to make the actual preference go away.
> 
> So far I haven't seen anything explode yet, but this is a pretty 
> ambitious change for me, considering that I've only been Squeaking for a 
> little over a year.
> 
> Would the good people of squeak-dev be so kind as to look over the 
> changes I've placed in the Inbox for obvious errors? Here they are:
> 
> Collections-rss.118
> Compiler-rss.72
> Tools-rss.110
> System-rss.134
> 
>  - Ron
> 
> 
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