Hi Ali,
I have found this view very useful in VisualWorks in the form of the WorkspaceOrganizer. I have ported it to VisualAge and was intending to port it to Squeak as soon as I got up to speed with Morphic.
However there is no point in reinventing the wheel so I was wondering how your TreeView was comming on and whether it was close to release?
Cheers,
Stewart
-----Original Message----- From: Ali Chamas [mailto:alichamas@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 4:48 PM To: squeak@cs.uiuc.edu Cc: recipient.list.not.shown; @cs.uiuc.edu Subject: Squeak built-in Help (was Re: Several beginner questions)
Hi Mike,
--- Mike Thomas miketh@ptmnet.com wrote:
Short answer: No. I'm way to busy doing other
exciting things and not a very
good writer as well (and English is not my native
language). More than
enough reasons for me ... ;-)
If I continue and learn Smalltalk and the library and you want to do some docs, ask for help and send me some notes - I do a lot of technical writing so I could get your notes into shape.
Same here! I'm working on a new heirachial tree-view Morph. The explore view uses one, but i've already written one for Director which supports bitmap association with particular node types/names, draws tree stems, and allows configurable icon bitmaps (all spaced dynamically), and i'm chipping away at having one done real soon for Smalltalk and Squeak. It would be great for Squeak to have built-in help, and the expand/collapse tree-view is a great way to do it. There would be general system topics, Smalltalk topics/issues, Squeak specific listings, class documentation etc. The view could be based on an open-edit style which would allow continual additions and creations to the collection (with I/O facilities). Set's of notes could be filed out, posted, then read into anyones image for distribuited help.
When it's ready, would you consider (along with other Squeakers? :1) to help with documenting areas of Squeak? I'm sure amoung the community there would be a complete knowledge base which could collectively contribuited to a (finally) well documented, and powerful system.
Cheers... Ali. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
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