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 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 25, 1999 4:48 PM
> To: squeak at 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 at 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.
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