<div class="gmail_extra">You already know that you rocks!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/4/21 Edgar J. De Cleene <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edgardec2005@gmail.com" target="_blank">edgardec2005@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Congrats Juan !!!<br>
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On 4/21/12 3:14 PM, "<a href="mailto:juanlists@jvuletich.org">juanlists@jvuletich.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:juanlists@jvuletich.org">juanlists@jvuletich.org</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
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> Hi Folks,<br>
><br>
> Cuis 4.0 is available at <a href="http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html" target="_blank">http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html</a> .<br>
> This is a very important release. It's been over 10 months since Cuis<br>
> 3.3, but all this time means that there are a lot of big news now.<br>
><br>
> The biggest one is the public release of the Styled Text Editor, by<br>
> Bernhard Pieber. Bernhard will do the announcement of this project<br>
> himself, all I want to say is that Styled Text Editor is the driving<br>
> force behind most of the new stuff in this release. I also want to add<br>
> that I'm delighted to be able to work with Bernhard on his project,<br>
> and that I'm more than happy with the wonderful effect this is having<br>
> on Cuis itself.<br>
><br>
> Check <a href="http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CuisReleaseNotes.html" target="_blank">http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CuisReleaseNotes.html</a> .<br>
><br>
> So, the main new features of this release of Cuis are the required<br>
> support for External Packages. This is a very lightweight<br>
> implementation of Packages, based on PackageInfo, but not on<br>
> Monticello. Versioning is done with GitHub. Take a look at<br>
> <a href="http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CodeManagementInCuis4.html" target="_blank">http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CodeManagementInCuis4.html</a> and<br>
> <a href="http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CuisAndGitHub.html" target="_blank">http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CuisAndGitHub.html</a> .<br>
><br>
> Full list of features (from the release notes):<br>
> -----------------------------------------------------<br>
><br>
> - Package Support. Cuis 4.0 has a package implementation based on<br>
> PackageInfo. Can be used with a Git repository (like GitHub) for<br>
> package versioning. More info at "CodeManagementInCuis4" and<br>
> "CuisAndGitHub". This infrastructure and process is used for the<br>
> StyledTextEditor project, developed by Bernhard Pieber and Software<br>
> Generation.<br>
><br>
> - New handling of ChangeSets. The idea is to have only one "live"<br>
> change set that automatically captures all changes done to the Cuis<br>
> Core image. Changes to Packages go to separate ChangeSets.<br>
><br>
> - UCompletion. A new implementation of Autocompletion for<br>
> Smalltalk code. Activates with ctrl-space. Usually gives the selector<br>
> desired as the first option. Some features are:<br>
><br>
> = Sorts by last definition of selector (Methods recently<br>
> saved go first),<br>
> = Sorts appropriately all selectors matching entered prefix<br>
> (no hardcoded limits, like 40 selectors matching 2 letters).<br>
> = Restricts suggestions if receiver is Global, a Constant or<br>
> a pseudo-variable.<br>
> = Doesn't have an "expanded mode". Always shows relevant suggestions.<br>
> = Not restricted to a set of previously selected packages.<br>
> All the methods in the system are accounted for.<br>
> = Very fast, thanks to an optimized Trie implementation.<br>
> = Compact code. Relies on services by Trie (for storing and<br>
> querying selectors) and Shout (for parsing incomplete methods).<br>
> = Helps make Shout faster, by providing super fast queries of<br>
> selector prefixes.<br>
> = Can be used for other applications besides Smalltalk code.<br>
> Currently used for an English glossary for StyledTextEditor.<br>
><br>
> - Trie. Cuis 4.- includes a very optimized implementation of a<br>
> Trie. Tries are dictionaries where keys are Strings. Lookups are<br>
> extremely fast. Search for entries matching a prefix are extremely<br>
> fast (O(1) regardless of the size of the collection). Addition and<br>
> removals are quite fast too. Used for UCompletion, holding 11,000<br>
> selectors. Also used for an English spell checker (in the<br>
> StyledTextEditor project) holding 166,000 words. In both cases use of<br>
> memory is quite reasonable (3 and 5.4 bytes per character in average)<br>
> and query speed is extremely fast.<br>
><br>
> - Multiple level undo / redo in all text and code editors.<br>
><br>
> - ClickNHalf+Drag to select words. TripleClick or<br>
> DoubleClickNHalf+Drag to select paragraphs. Like most modern text<br>
> editors and wordprocessors do.<br>
><br>
> - Multiple text selection (with control+mouse). Like most modern<br>
> text editors and wordprocessors do.<br>
><br>
> - Lf. The newline character is no longer Character cr (ASCII code<br>
> 13), but Character lf (ASCII code 10). This is the standard in Mac and<br>
> Unix platforms, and the required convention for GitHub. All the code<br>
> in the image has been converted.<br>
><br>
> - cmd-w closes window below mouse pointer. cmd-< y cmd-> cycle<br>
> through windows.<br>
><br>
> - New "PostIt" like HoverHelp morphs.<br>
><br>
> - Simplification / Redesign: Scrolling in Morphic (TransformMorph<br>
> gone, etc).<br>
><br>
> - Deep cleanup in Paragraph and paragraph display services in<br>
> Canvas and DisplayScanner (now MorphicScanner).<br>
><br>
> - MouseClickState refactor, to ease new gestures<br>
> (ClickNHalf+Drag, DoubleClickNHalf+Drag, TripleClick).<br>
><br>
> - Killed AbstractEvent hierarchy. Unified event subscribing,<br>
> triggering and handling everywhere in Cuis.<br>
><br>
> - More TextMorph cleanup.<br>
><br>
> - Numeric enhancements done by nice and jmv, both on Squeak and Cuis.<br>
><br>
> - Many minor enhancements, cleanups and bugfixes.<br>
><br>
> - Updates to Squeak: Numerics, Network, and many others.<br>
><br>
> I hope you enjoy this release of Cuis as much as Bernhard and I<br>
> enjoyed working on it. As usual, comments, discussion, bug reports,<br>
> kudos and donations are all<br>
> welcome!<br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
> Juan Vuletich<br>
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