[squeak-dev] [Ann] Cuis 4.0 is released!

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Fri Apr 27 22:25:43 UTC 2012


Hello again

I realized that instead of

Character cr
there is
Character newLineCharacter

and instead of

Transcript show: 'abc'; cr.

there is

Transcript show: 'abc'; newLine.

Here my question: What do the paragraph signs with the boxes around
them mean? (see screen shot)

--Hannes




On 4/27/12, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks nice indeed.
> The rewrite of TextEditor looks quite impressive.
> I tested a bit but Cuis has a quite limited font selection ;-)
> How do I import more fonts to Cuis ?
>
> A couple of bugs:
>
> Found that when a menu is pinned down its sub-menus disappear quite fast.
> Try to pin down New Morph menu and access sub-menus for example.
>
> Also
>
> There is a MNU when you select WorldMenu/Windows/Move Windows Onscreen and
> a Transcript is open.
>
> Cheers,
> Karl
>
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 8:14 PM, <juanlists at jvuletich.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Cuis 4.0 is available at
>> http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/**Index.html<http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html>.
>> This is a very important release. It's been over 10 months since Cuis
>> 3.3, but all this time means that there are a lot of big news now.
>>
>> The biggest one is the public release of the Styled Text Editor, by
>> Bernhard Pieber. Bernhard will do the announcement of this project
>> himself,
>> all I want to say is that Styled Text Editor is the driving force behind
>> most of the new stuff in this release. I also want to add that I'm
>> delighted to be able to work with Bernhard on his project, and that I'm
>> more than happy with the wonderful effect this is having on Cuis itself.
>>
>> Check
>> http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/**CuisReleaseNotes.html<http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CuisReleaseNotes.html>.
>>
>> So, the main new features of this release of Cuis are the required
>> support
>> for External Packages. This is a very lightweight implementation of
>> Packages, based on PackageInfo, but not on Monticello. Versioning is done
>> with GitHub. Take a look at http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/**
>> CodeManagementInCuis4.html<http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CodeManagementInCuis4.html>and
>> http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/**CuisAndGitHub.html<http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CuisAndGitHub.html>.
>>
>> Full list of features (from the release notes):
>> ------------------------------**-----------------------
>>
>>    - Package Support. Cuis 4.0 has a package implementation based on
>> PackageInfo. Can be used with a Git repository (like GitHub) for package
>> versioning. More info at "CodeManagementInCuis4" and "CuisAndGitHub".
>> This
>> infrastructure and process is used for the StyledTextEditor project,
>> developed by Bernhard Pieber and Software Generation.
>>
>>    - New handling of ChangeSets. The idea is to have only one "live"
>> change set that automatically captures all changes done to the Cuis Core
>> image. Changes to Packages go to separate ChangeSets.
>>
>>    - UCompletion. A new implementation of Autocompletion for Smalltalk
>> code. Activates with ctrl-space. Usually gives the selector desired as
>> the
>> first option. Some features are:
>>
>>        = Sorts by last definition of selector (Methods recently saved go
>> first),
>>        = Sorts appropriately all selectors matching entered prefix (no
>> hardcoded limits, like 40 selectors matching 2 letters).
>>        = Restricts suggestions if receiver is Global, a Constant or a
>> pseudo-variable.
>>        = Doesn't have an "expanded mode". Always shows relevant
>> suggestions.
>>        = Not restricted to a set of previously selected packages. All the
>> methods in the system are accounted for.
>>        = Very fast, thanks to an optimized Trie implementation.
>>        = Compact code. Relies on services by Trie (for storing and
>> querying selectors) and Shout (for parsing incomplete methods).
>>        = Helps make Shout faster, by providing super fast queries of
>> selector prefixes.
>>        = Can be used for other applications besides Smalltalk code.
>> Currently used for an English glossary for StyledTextEditor.
>>
>>    - Trie. Cuis 4.- includes a very optimized implementation of a Trie.
>> Tries are dictionaries where keys are Strings. Lookups are extremely
>> fast.
>> Search for entries matching a prefix are extremely fast (O(1) regardless
>> of
>> the size of the collection). Addition and removals are quite fast too.
>> Used
>> for UCompletion, holding 11,000 selectors. Also used for an English spell
>> checker (in the StyledTextEditor project) holding 166,000 words. In both
>> cases use of memory is quite reasonable (3 and 5.4 bytes per character in
>> average) and query speed is extremely fast.
>>
>>    - Multiple level undo / redo in all text and code editors.
>>
>>    - ClickNHalf+Drag to select words. TripleClick or
>> DoubleClickNHalf+Drag
>> to select paragraphs. Like most modern text editors and wordprocessors
>> do.
>>
>>    - Multiple text selection (with control+mouse). Like most modern text
>> editors and wordprocessors do.
>>
>>    - Lf. The newline character is no longer Character cr (ASCII code 13),
>> but Character lf (ASCII code 10). This is the standard in Mac and Unix
>> platforms, and the required convention for GitHub. All the code in the
>> image has been converted.
>>
>>    - cmd-w closes window below mouse pointer. cmd-< y cmd-> cycle through
>> windows.
>>
>>    - New "PostIt" like HoverHelp morphs.
>>
>>    - Simplification / Redesign: Scrolling in Morphic (TransformMorph
>> gone,
>> etc).
>>
>>    - Deep cleanup in Paragraph and paragraph display services in Canvas
>> and DisplayScanner (now MorphicScanner).
>>
>>    - MouseClickState refactor, to ease new gestures (ClickNHalf+Drag,
>> DoubleClickNHalf+Drag, TripleClick).
>>
>>    - Killed AbstractEvent hierarchy. Unified event subscribing,
>> triggering
>> and handling everywhere in Cuis.
>>
>>    - More TextMorph cleanup.
>>
>>    - Numeric enhancements done by nice and jmv, both on Squeak and Cuis.
>>
>>    - Many minor enhancements, cleanups and bugfixes.
>>
>>    - Updates to Squeak: Numerics, Network, and many others.
>>
>> I hope you enjoy this release of Cuis as much as Bernhard and I enjoyed
>> working on it. As usual, comments, discussion, bug reports, kudos and
>> donations are all
>> welcome!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Juan Vuletich
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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