Create new trait in Browser
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Hello,
When I want to create a new Trait, I currently search and type the trait template myself. You know, Trait named: #foo uses: ... Should there not be a context menu item that fills the browser code pane with the template? I see there is Browser>>newTrait and Browser>>addSpecialMenu: but the latter has no senders in my Trunk image. Kind regards Jakob |
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Nice idea! I have been using Traits for only one time in my Squeak life so far, but they surely can be helpful in certain cases.
Would this maybe be rather a job for a good autocompletion? If I'm creating code, I will not search in any menus. I would like to type "Trait" into the class definition field and be proposed "Trait named: ___ uses: ___". Same for "Morph" ("Morph subclass: ___ instanceVariableNames:
'' classVariableNames: '' poolDictionaries: '' category: 'xyz'", and also the version with #uses:).
The autocompletion could detect that you are typing into a class definition field and then first suggest selectors from a whitelist of the ones mentioned above.
This whitelist could be defined by certain message categories (Class: #'subclass creation', Trait: #'instance creation').
I'm not familiar with the OCompletion implementation, but a bit with
Autocompletion, where the latter allows specifying custom completion controllers, so this should be possible without huge design changes. Does someone know about OCompletion?
Best,
Christoph
Von: Squeak-dev <[hidden email]> im Auftrag von Jakob Reschke <[hidden email]>
Gesendet: Sonntag, 8. Dezember 2019 16:39:57 An: [hidden email] Betreff: [squeak-dev] Create new trait in Browser Hello,
When I want to create a new Trait, I currently search and type the trait template myself. You know, Trait named: #foo uses: ...
Should there not be a context menu item that fills the browser code pane with the template?
I see there is Browser>>newTrait and Browser>>addSpecialMenu: but the latter has no senders in my Trunk image.
Kind regards
Jakob
Carpe Squeak!
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That might be nice. But I think this is too many steps ahead for now. Today the templates are invoked either - via empty selection (for a new class deriving from Object), or - the class menu (to make subclasses of the selected class). The trait template should be available somewhere similar. Hooking into the menus is probably much easier than extending the auto-completion. The unsent method addSpecialMenu: looks like it was already done or considered at some point, but then got dropped or was overlooked and forgotten. Am So., 8. Dez. 2019 um 17:32 Uhr schrieb Thiede, Christoph <[hidden email]>:
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Re: Create new trait in Browser
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Ah cool, I actually was not aware of that class menu :-)
Yes, adding more templates there via a submenu sounds reasonable to me. +1! Von: Squeak-dev <[hidden email]> im Auftrag von Jakob Reschke <[hidden email]>
Gesendet: Sonntag, 8. Dezember 2019 17:46:07 An: The general-purpose Squeak developers list Betreff: Re: [squeak-dev] Create new trait in Browser That might be nice. But I think this is too many steps ahead for now.
Today the templates are invoked either
- via empty selection (for a new class deriving from Object), or
- the class menu (to make subclasses of the selected class).
The trait template should be available somewhere similar.
Hooking into the menus is probably much easier than extending the auto-completion. The unsent method addSpecialMenu: looks like it was already done or considered at some point, but then got dropped or was overlooked and forgotten.
Am So., 8. Dez. 2019 um 17:32 Uhr schrieb Thiede, Christoph <[hidden email]>:
Carpe Squeak!
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