----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Aufflick" <mark-st at aufflick.com>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 7:43 AM
Subject: basicFormat method missing in SHTextStylerST80?


> Hi everyone,
>
> As suggested by Milan Zimmermann, I am re-posting this question from
> squeak-newbies.
>
> I think that my smalltalk conversion will be much nicer if I can get
> the SVI emacs-like environments up and running.
>
> The editor and workspace work great, but the SVI ClassBrowser  fails
> at the following point:
>
> PluggableSVIShoutMapMorph>>preStyleText
>        ...
>        basicStyle: (aText _ styler basicFormat: t asText).
>
> Where styler is an instance of SHTextStylerST80. Problem is it has no
> basicFormat method. The only reference to a basicFOrmat method via
> google is:
>
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2004-April/077901.html
>
> which is hardly useful in this case, although it does point to the
> function of the method.

The basicFormat: method was removed from Shout some time ago.
I had added the styledTextFor: to achieve the same purpose, and so your fix is a
good one.


>
> Firstly, I seem to be able to emulate the intention of the code by
> replacing PluggableSVIShoutMapMorph>>preStyleText with:
>
> preStyleText: t
>
>        |aText|
>
>        (Preferences syntaxHighlightingAsYouType not or: [t size > self
> styleSizeLimit])
>                ifTrue:[^t].
>
>        styler
>                ifNil: [ ^t ]
>                ifNotNil:[styler
>                                        classOrMetaClass: svi
> selectedClassOrMetaClass;
>                                        format: (aText := styler
> styledTextFor: t asText).
>                                ^aText].
>
> This also points to a challenge that the ST community has with regards
> to it's use of traditional SCM. Since most coding projects (say Rails)
> use a "standard" text based SCM like CVS or subversion, they can run
> simple web interfaces allowing access to all versions of all source
> files. A huge benefit of that is that I can google for some class and
> method names (that may be in either an upcoming version or may have
> been deprecated years ago) and I will often find the source that
> implements that method which is a good starting point, even if noone
> has ever mentioned my specific issue.
>
> There don't seem to be any such online viewable repositories of, say,
> the squeak core. Is there any kind of repositary that would be
> suitable for putting a read only web front end on? Ideally with more
> granularity than just the snapshots of released image versions.

the code for Shout is on SqueakSource...
http://www.squeaksource.com/shout.html

Where all the old versions can be browsed/downloaded

Cheers,
Andy

>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.
>
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