NBHelp in Squeak (Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Why FFI is not included with latest squeak ?)

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Wed Aug 22 00:11:39 UTC 2012


On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Igor Stasenko wrote:

> On 22 August 2012 00:04, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>
>>> On 21 August 2012 23:20, dimitris chloupis <thekilon at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ah thank you , I had version 1 and now version 4 is installed together
>>>> with
>>>> all dependencies. Any idea how I use NB-help ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> i don't know how you can do it in squeak image, in pharo image just
>>> open help browser
>>
>>
>> It uses too many "pharoisms", so it won't work in Squeak out of the box:
>> - Gofer
>> - LogicalFont
>> - StandardFonts
>> - pragma-based "registration" for HelpSystem
>>
>> The first can be loaded, the lines containing the next two can be replaced
>> with "TextStyle defaultFont" and then you can open the HelpBrowser with:
>> HelpBrowser openOn: NBHelp asHelpTopic.
>>
>> Btw, green text for source code doesn't look very nice and it would be
>> better to use the Metacello API to load PP.
>>
>
> I never tried it on squeak, so sure thing it may not work.

Sure.

> I have two questions:
> - why LogicalFont considered pharoism?
> (StandardFonts is, but LogicalFont?)

Because it doesn't exist in Squeak.

> and
> - what is the metacello API you mentioned. I don't know much about
> metacello beyond the way how to create and manage own configs. Any
> pointers?

https://github.com/dalehenrich/metacello-work/blob/master/docs/MetacelloUserGuide.md

>
> how i can use it, if metacello is not installed by default in image?

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2012-August/165199.html

> (well, of course, by all logic people will load NB anyways, so i can
> safely assume it already in image)

Um, a few mails before you wrote that NBHelp can be loaded without NB, so 
that was what I did. :)


Levente

>
>>
>> Levente
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>
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko.
>
>


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