New subject: Fwd: [ANN] new version of services available for preview

30 Sep 2005


      Juste pour ceux qui aurait rate cela....
C'est vraiment cool ce que romain fait.
Stef
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From: Romain Robbes romain.robbes@lu.unisi.ch
Date: 9 septembre 2005 13:28:54 GMT+02:00
To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak- 
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Subject: [ANN] new version of services available for preview
Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak- 
dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Hi,
I just released two packages on squeakmap for further testing:

- Services-All contains several packages related to services  

grouped together for convenient downloads:
            -- Services-Base should go into the image at one point
            -- Services-RB is the refactorings services
            -- Services-Keymapping provide keyboard shortcuts for  
services
            -- Services-IDE provides a few nifty features describe  
later

BrowseUnit has been updated to use the new version of the

Services framework.
This new version of services provides:
        - A cleaner way to define and register services, by  
subclassing a ServiceProvider class
        - Possibilities to add services in button bars such as in  
browsers
        - Better update mechanism, allowing menus and button bars  
to be dynamically changed
            (no need to open a new Browser when you install  
BrowseUnit for example)
        - Better support for disabled services in menus (they are  
grayed out)
        - Possibilities to enable or disable set of services in the  
Preferences
On to the nifty IDE features ;-) :
    - Histories in browsers, inspired by Alain Plantec's add on.
            The differences are:
                -- no additional instance variable in browser
                -- triggered by keyboard shortcut (apple-[ and  

apple-] on the mac, the alt key for windows or linux)
                    -- histories in message lists (apple-{ and } )  
as well
        - An hypertext mechanism: double-click on a code entity  
(variable, message send), to be transported here.
                combined with histories, it makes the class browser  
really feel like a web browser.
        - Possibility of leaving unnaccepted methods, and restoring  
them later, which improves the browsing experience as well
        -Senders, implementors ... can be restricted to the image,  
package or hierarchy levels
        -There is a teleporting device ;-) : press apple-t or alt- 
t, enter some text, press enter, and you will be teleported where  
you wanted...
            Here are some examples:
            -- enter "ord.col" to browse the OrderedCollection class.
            -- enter "do:" to browse the implementors of do:
            -- enter "ord.col do:' to browse OrderedCollection>>#do:
            --enter "h" to get further help.
        This was inspired by some Mac utilities such as Quicksilver  
or Launchbar, only much more limited ;-)
So I encourage you to try this out, and send me feedback about  

what doesn't work and what should be improved...
Cheers,
    Romain