About Smalltalk ui icons...

loadConfigurationButton: aList
     <menu>
     aList
         act: [ :presenter | self onLoadFrom: presenter ]
         icon: Smalltalk ui icons configIcon
         entitled: 'Load configuration (do not install project)'


why we could not have something like

loadConfigurationButton: aList
     <menu>
     aList
         act: [ :presenter | self onLoadFrom: presenter ]
         icon: #configIcon
         entitled: 'Load configuration (do not install project)'


and the class knows how to fetch it?

in this case it should be called #act:iconNamed:entitled:, IMO.
but I was thinking and what I actually would do is to model the class Icon, and then you can add an extension to symbol “#asIcon” who call some "Icon fromSymbol: blah"

then the strategy of resolution can change without changing anything in the system :P

(I know you would not like #asIcon, but I think in this case it would be better than all those "Smalltalk ui icons iconNamed: blah" all around the image)

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Le 22/5/16 à 20:44, Esteban Lorenzano a écrit : yes
> but I was thinking and what I actually would do is to model the class Icon, and then you can add an extension to symbol “#asIcon” who call some "Icon fromSymbol: blah"
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This is why I started also to add methods

iconNamed: aSymbol
     Smalltalk ui icons aSymbol

so that we can start to think and it will be easier to produce

iconNamed: aSymbol
     Icon fromSymbol: aSymbol


I HATE so much these bad bad bad global variable idea.
I think that this pattern is doomed.
We should have an object

This is the same for

     Smalltalk tools browser

Why the clients cannot get initialized with a tool context registry and
the code would be

     registry browser

We are accepting not so good design to my opinion and we are getting
spaghetti.

Stef


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