Making Smalltalk EasierSmalltalk ToolsBrowser History- January 30, 2007 Here is another experimental package from the recent past: VB-Sketch-Browser History It adds a History menu to the browser, containing the most recently visited classes and packages. I know of at least one other recent attempt (RBrowserHistory in the public repository) to add history to the browser, in the form of forwardbackward buttons for sequential navigation. My Browser History use of a menu instead of the buttons is not at all a statement against the sequential approach. Rather,.http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/vbykov/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=... Don't Mode Me In- January 29, 2007 This post is about an experimental piece I wrote some time ago, which for a number of reasons hasn't made it into VW proper--the main being the depth of changes it makes to the basic logic of the RB, and how unreceptive RB in general is to such changes. However, it is stable enough to be useful as an unsupported add-on. It is published to the public repository as VB-Sketch-DontModeMeIn "Don't mode me in" was a slogan reportedly coined by Larry Tesler in the early days of UIs, which also..http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/vbykov/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=... Tools-State Machine and Assistants- January 18, 2007 And here is another package, or a group of packages this time, just published to the public repository: Tools-State Machine Tools-State Machine-Tests Tools-State Machine-Pollock Example A state machine is a useful abstraction in specifying user interface interactions. So useful in fact, that it's handy to make the abstraction concrete. The main package, Tools-State Machine, contains an implementation of a state machine integrated with Announcements. Tools-State Machine-Pollock...http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/vbykov/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=... Tools-Resource Library- January 17, 2007 This is an explanation of what the package Tools-Resource Library just published to the open repository does, and how it does that. VisualWorks applications, at least most of those I've been working on, use images prepared outside of the VisualWorks environment. Some of the older icons I made, including those in the Launcher and the RB were created using CoolImage--but nice as it is compared to the default Image Editor, it is no Photoshop killer. And arguably, replicating Photoshop or Gimp..http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/vbykov/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=... |