fileOutCategory:asHtml:
Andrew P. Black
black at cse.ogi.edu
Fri Mar 31 23:10:28 UTC 2000
I have been poking around to try to see what it would take to make
the printOut menu item in the browser produce some html that I would
like to show people. That is, html that looks good (uses styles
reasonably) and does not have all of those ! characters that are
intended for fileIn.
What I found was two separate implementations of
#fileOutCategory:asHtml:, one in ClassDescription, which is inherited
by Class and MetaClass, and one in SystemOrganizer. They are almost,
but not quite, the same. It seems to me that SystemOrganizer ought
to be delegating this work to ClassDescription, or maybe the other
way around.
Before I mess with anything, can anyone enlighten me as to why things
are built the way that they are?
Right now, the only difference between fileOut and printOut seems to
be that printOut uses an HtmlFileStream, whereas FileOut uses a
StandardFileStream; the latter simply ignores all of the html
commands. To do more interesting formatting, I was thinking of using
the Strategy pattern, where the various chunks that are filed out are
formatted in different ways for fileOut and printOut.
Or maybe someone has done this already?
Andrew
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