On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:59 AM, David Röthlisberger <squeak@c3com.ch> wrote:

I suggest to have a look at this paper, it is dedicated to user and developers of
OmniBrowser:
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Archive/Papers/Berg07cOmnibrowser.pdf

Thanks...some "light reading" for a Sunday afternoon! How hard do you think it would be to use the OmniBrowser model to hook up to non-morphic views? I am exploring the idea of a web-based design layout tool for web development (using Aida), and the next logical step is to create a browser in a prototype-ui window or something that would let you wire your model to the design on the page.

I'm actually right now working on a documentation for this browser, it should be
finished soon.

You know, this is a great time to be new to Squeak. There is an awful lot of good work going on out there. I always thought I was a decent programmer, just not world class! But, as in the example above, much of the "heavy lifting" has been done already, and the problem I describe may be just hard enough to be interesting to me, but actually doable thanks to the work of others!

First, create a subclass of OBCommand. Then you need to implement at least the
methods #execute, #label and #isActive (have a look at eg. OBCmdNewClassTemplate).
Finally, you can add a method called eg. 'cmdAIDATemplate' to OBCodeBrowser or a
subclass of it. It is important that this method starts with 'cmd'. When you then
start a new system browser, the command should be available (if #isActive answers
true for the selected class).

Thanks for this. It seems very modular and easy to extend (based on your description)! I'll give it a shot!

Rob