On 2012-12-05 12:55 PM, Bob Arning wrote:
>
> On 12/5/12 12:35 PM, Chris Cunnington wrote:
>> On 2012-12-05 11:41 AM, Bob Arning wrote:
>>> Something like
>>> =====================
>>> TheWorldMainDockingBar compile: 'welcomeWhatever
>>>
>>> ^',(self contents printStringLimitedTo: 100000),' readStream 
>>> nextChunkText'
>>> =======================
>>>
>>> where self is your WriteStream
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Bob
>>>
>>> On 12/5/12 10:41 AM, Frank Shearar wrote:
>>>> On 4 December 2012 20:30, Frank Shearar<frank.shearar at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>> On 4 December 2012 19:16, Colin Putney<colin at wiresong.com>  wrote:
>>>>>> Cleanup and simplification of Morphic text editing
>>>>> That's exactly what I want: why the user should care.
>>>> Right. I now have a Workspace with the changelog all nicely marked up.
>>>> I need to turn that into something I can put in the ReleaseBuilder. I
>>>> thought I could just explore my way to the Text instance with my
>>>> stuff, and do something like (WriteStream on: String new)
>>>> nextChunkPutWithStyle: self). Which is fine, but I need to turn that
>>>> into something like TheWorldMainDockingBar >> #welcomeToSqueak43. What
>>>> am I missing?
>>>>
>>>> frank
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I think Frank is asking for help about a question I couldn't answer. 
>> It's weird, because I found some solution to this when I released 
>> 4.3. The question might be phrased: how do you file out an instance?
>>
>> Andreas did something, and it's baffling. If you go to 
>> TheWorldMainDockingBar>>#welcomeToSqueak43
>> you see the text of the docking bar menu selection 
>> Help>>WelcomeWorkspaces>>WelcomeToSqueak4.3. But here's the twist, it 
>> contains the styles at the bottom:
>>
>> 'Morphic
>> - SMxMorphicProject now able to host a SimpleMorphic World
>> - when present a SMxMorphicProject is made available in the World menu
>> !
>> ]style[(24 75 10 48 9 34 18 152 4 69 14 667 8 120 1 1 7 
>> 131)FBitstreamVeraSans#20.0,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,,bu,!' 
>> readStream nextChunkText
>>
>>
>> This string fed to TheWorldMainDockingBar spits out a fully formatted 
>> Workspace.
>>
>> TheWorldMainDockingBar instance
>>         showWelcomeText: #welcomeToSqueak43
>>         label: 'Welcome to Squeak 4.3'
>>         in: (200 @ 200 extent: 500 @ 300)
>>
>> By hand, Frank has crafted a Welcome workspace with the underlines, 
>> bold, and fonts to his taste. Now he wants to know what to do to 
>> produce a string that can be saved as a method.
> I think this does it:
> =====================
> TheWorldMainDockingBar compile: 'welcomeWhatever
>
> ^',(((WriteStream on: String new) nextChunkPutWithStyle: aText) 
> contents printStringLimitedTo: 100000),'  readStream nextChunkText'
> =====================
>
> when aText is the Text with your pretty text, you get:
> =================================
> welcomeWhatever
>
> ^'Bob is bold!
> ]style[(3 8)f5b,f1!'  readStream nextChunkText
> ===============================
>
> compiled into TheWorldMainDockingBar.
>
> Cheers,
> Bob
Works for me. Very nifty.

Chris

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