Fwd: [ANN] new version of services available for preview
stéphane ducasse
ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Sep 29 19:18:32 UTC 2005
Hi all
Romain gave me a presentation of his enhancements and they are
REALLLLLLLLY cool.
For example
we can start to code a method
in the middle of doing it doubleclick on a word in the text and
jump in the implementors
then go back (without having lost the code we were typing).
by simply double clicking on a symbol in a method text we can
jump into the senders, implementers...
I asked romain to do a video.
I really think that what he is doing is important for the improvement
of the usability of the environment.
So try and give feedback to romain. We could get a really cool
environment with his extensions, shout, eCompletion, RoelTyper.
Stef
>
> 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
>
>
>
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