[Seaside] sometimes you just have to laugh at yourself

[Tim Mackinnon]

Yes - but you just have to remember to laugh ;)



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> On 28 Oct 2018, at 16:02, gettimothy <gettimothy at zoho.com> wrote:
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> Two days implementing SeasideDoc Builders, Directors, HelpDoclets to try to wrap CustomHelp subclasses...
> 
> It was coming along, but getting needlessly complicated.
> 
> "I wonder how the HelpBrowser does it?" I asked myself.
> 
> That infrastructure has Builders....so I spend hours trying to get a Builder to build my TerseGuilde topic so I could use it...
> 
> Tests have an APIBuilder cannot use that on a ClassBasedHelpTopic....
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> poke around some more...
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> Its a one-liner...
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> TerseGuideHelp asHelpTopic
> or
> SqueakHelp asHelpTopic
> 
> All the structure I was trying to build manually already exists in one message send.
> 
> like I said, "Sometimes you just have to laugh at yourself!"
> 
> p.s.
> 
> Stuff like this is a big reason "WHY" I am building SeasideDoc. Eventually, I will have the "patterns" that Squeak Subsystems use documented.
> 
> Current task, first phase, is to simply display the existing help as it is.
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