A morph for doing 2D plots

> Mateusz Grotek pisze:
>> I have created a morph for doing 2D plots.
>> It is still in the pre-alpha stage, but might be useful for someone.
>> It is my first public smalltalk project. :-)
>> No tests and no documentation yet.
>> If anyone has any useful advice, please share it with me.
>> Thank you!
>
> Oops, here is the link:
> http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/MGPlotting.html
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> On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 11:16:09PM +0100, Mateusz Grotek wrote:
>> Mateusz Grotek pisze:
>>> I have created a morph for doing 2D plots.
>>> It is still in the pre-alpha stage, but might be useful for someone.
>>> It is my first public smalltalk project. :-)
>
> Excellent! Good to see new projects like this.
>
>>> No tests and no documentation yet.
>>> If anyone has any useful advice, please share it with me.
>>> Thank you!
>
> Don't forget to add class comments as you go. It's a lot easier than
> trying to write them later on. Just write quick a line or two of comment
> when you first create the class, more or less as a note to yourself
> explaining what you are going to do. That automatically captures your
> original design intent. I think a lot of people get writers block when
> they want to document an existing class, so if you just write it down
> in 20 words or less before you get started, the problem is solved. You
> can always go back and document some of the details later on if you
> want to :-)
>
> Dave
>
>> Oops, here is the link:
>> http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/MGPlotting.html
>>
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> Mateusz Grotek pisze:
> > Mateusz Grotek pisze:
> >> I have created a morph for doing 2D plots.
> >> It is still in the pre-alpha stage, but might be useful for someone.
> >> It is my first public smalltalk project. :-)
> >> No tests and no documentation yet.
> >> If anyone has any useful advice, please share it with me.
> >> Thank you!
> >
> > Oops, here is the link:
> > http://ss3.gemstone.com/ss/MGPlotting.html
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> Documentation is now included (class and method comments).
>

> I have created a morph for doing 2D plots.
> It is still in the pre-alpha stage, but might be useful for someone.
> It is my first public smalltalk project. :-)
> No tests and no documentation yet.
> If anyone has any useful advice, please share it with me.
> Thank you!
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> Hi Mateusz,
>
> it will be helpful for a user if you had some class side methods to
> create some examples.
>
> I wanted to try your code and didn't know where to start.  I rolled my
> own in 2007 (for plotting frequency responses), didn't use it since
> then and when the need arose this May I could use it by just starting
> from those examples. I assume you had something different in mind and
> for your plotting purposes your class and method names are perfectly
> natural :-)
>
> This is no criticism, its just to show you how a person interested in
> your code may be completely confused because his view is clouded by
> his own preconceptions which are different from yours.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Herbert
>
> Am 06.12.2013 23:14, schrieb Mateusz Grotek:
>> I have created a morph for doing 2D plots.
>> It is still in the pre-alpha stage, but might be useful for someone.
>> It is my first public smalltalk project. :-)
>> No tests and no documentation yet.
>> If anyone has any useful advice, please share it with me.
>> Thank you!
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> aahh, now I saw the code in the class comment.
>
> I copied it into a workspace like this:
>
> |mgRelation|
> mgRelation := MGRelationOnLeftToRightBlock new.
>     mgRelation block: [:x|x squared].
>     mgPlotMorph addRelation: mgRelation.
>
> and it raises a debugger.
>
> First it should be possible to run it from the browser. My example
> methods usually have "self example1" in the method comment.
> Secondly the example should work after just loading the code :-))
>
> At least now I understand that you had a function plotter in mind. Now
> MGRelation starts to make some sense.
>
> Ok, reading the whole comment I did:
>
> |mgRelation mgPlotMorph|
> mgPlotMorph := MGPlotMorph new.
>     mgPlotMorph openInWorld.
> mgRelation := MGRelationOnLeftToRightBlock new.
>     mgRelation block: [:x|x squared].
>     mgPlotMorph addRelation: mgRelation.
>
> See how stupid your users are :-))
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Herbert
>
> Am 07.12.2013 19:59, schrieb Herbert König:
>> Hi Mateusz,
>>
>> it will be helpful for a user if you had some class side methods to
>> create some examples.
>>
>> I wanted to try your code and didn't know where to start.  I rolled
>> my own in 2007 (for plotting frequency responses), didn't use it
>> since then and when the need arose this May I could use it by just
>> starting from those examples. I assume you had something different in
>> mind and for your plotting purposes your class and method names are
>> perfectly natural :-)
>>
>> This is no criticism, its just to show you how a person interested in
>> your code may be completely confused because his view is clouded by
>> his own preconceptions which are different from yours.
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Herbert
>>
>> Am 06.12.2013 23:14, schrieb Mateusz Grotek:
>>> I have created a morph for doing 2D plots.
>>> It is still in the pre-alpha stage, but might be useful for someone.
>>> It is my first public smalltalk project. :-)
>>> No tests and no documentation yet.
>>> If anyone has any useful advice, please share it with me.
>>> Thank you!
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Beginners mailing list
>>> [hidden email]
>>> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
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> Hi Mateusz,
>
> you also might want to enter ScaleMorph example4 into a workspace,
> resize it with the yellow halo button for smooth resizing. Also that
> author made the numbers submorphs while the tickmarks where no objects
> of their own.
>
> Don't know his reasons but I copied this and the lines on my plots were
> Morphs so I could drag them as part of the UI.
>
> Cheers
>
> Herbert
>
> Am 07.12.2013 20:15, schrieb Herbert König:
>> aahh, now I saw the code in the class comment.
>>
>> I copied it into a workspace like this:
>>
>> |mgRelation|
>> mgRelation := MGRelationOnLeftToRightBlock new.
>>     mgRelation block: [:x|x squared].
>>     mgPlotMorph addRelation: mgRelation.
>>
>> and it raises a debugger.
>>
>> First it should be possible to run it from the browser. My example
>> methods usually have "self example1" in the method comment.
>> Secondly the example should work after just loading the code :-))
>>
>> At least now I understand that you had a function plotter in mind. Now
>> MGRelation starts to make some sense.
>>
>> Ok, reading the whole comment I did:
>>
>> |mgRelation mgPlotMorph|
>> mgPlotMorph := MGPlotMorph new.
>>     mgPlotMorph openInWorld.
>> mgRelation := MGRelationOnLeftToRightBlock new.
>>     mgRelation block: [:x|x squared].
>>     mgPlotMorph addRelation: mgRelation.
>>
>> See how stupid your users are :-))
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Herbert
>>
>> Am 07.12.2013 19:59, schrieb Herbert König:
>>> Hi Mateusz,
>>>
>>> it will be helpful for a user if you had some class side methods to
>>> create some examples.
>>>
>>> I wanted to try your code and didn't know where to start.  I rolled
>>> my own in 2007 (for plotting frequency responses), didn't use it
>>> since then and when the need arose this May I could use it by just
>>> starting from those examples. I assume you had something different in
>>> mind and for your plotting purposes your class and method names are
>>> perfectly natural :-)
>>>
>>> This is no criticism, its just to show you how a person interested in
>>> your code may be completely confused because his view is clouded by
>>> his own preconceptions which are different from yours.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Herbert
>>>