Esteban's ChangeLog week of 28 January 2019

> On 4 Feb 2019, at 08:00, [hidden email] wrote:
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> Hello!
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> This is my weekly ChangeLog, from 28 January 2019 to 3 February 2019.
> You can see it in a better format by going here: http://log.smallworks.eu/web/search?from=28/1/2019&to=3/2/2019
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> ChangeLog
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> 30 January 2019:
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> *    Still more work for the [PR](https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/208) I submited yesterday.
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>    It is now ready to merge!
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> 29 January 2019:
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> *    I made a [PR](https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/208) that adds two new elements to Spec 2:
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>    1) SpecPanedLayout is a new layout that complements SpecBoxLayout:
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>    A paned layout is like a Box Layout (it places childen in vertical or horizontal fashion), but it will add a splitter in between, that user can drag to resize the panel.
>    In exchange, a paned layout can have just two children.
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>    2) NotebookPresenter is a new implementation of a tab manager. Needed because old one was not lazy, bad layouted
>    and too attached to Morphic (while we attempt to be more backend agnostic).
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>    All of this is still WIP (there are missing functionality still), but what is there is working fine :)
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> *    I merged this [PR](https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/pull/362) from Pavel to
>    improve keyboard handling on Windows VMs.
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> *    Now that Pharo 7.0 is out, I started work on the Pharo 8.0 roadmap (that I need to
>    send to the list, btw).
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>    Since some weeks I've been working on Spec2 (because we will need it sooner than
>    expected and I wanted to make some progress on its general design and needs). In Spec2,
>    some things will be enhanced, some others replaced and some other more added from
>    scratch.
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>    I wanted to know mor more or less were we stand to do the job.
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>    Some work I've made (along with Cyril):
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>    1) Layouts will be revamped. Right now there is just one layout which is overpowerful but hard
>    to use and too attached to morphic (and our goal is to be able to replace the Morphic backend
>    with a Bloc backend). We decided to go for a different approach: instead one layout that does
>    all, having different layouts to fulfil different needs:
>     - +SpecBoxLayout+ (rigid panes)
>     - +SpecPanedLayout+ (non rigid panes)
>     - +SpecGridLayout+ (form kind layout)
>     - +SpecFlowLayout+ (flowing components)
>     - +SpecXYLayout+ (rigid coordinates)
>     - And of course there will be need of a kasowary based layout.
>     - ... ?
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>    I already implemented +SpecBoxLayout+, +SpecPanesLayout+ and a preliminary version od +SpecGridLayout+ :).
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>    2) Interpreter will be removed. Just the old layout makes it necessary today, and it adds a
>    complexity we do not need.
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>    3) We will add a +TablePresenter+ (a good one) and a +TreeTablePresenter+ (again, a good one).
>    Old versions that try to fullfil same function will be deprecated. There is already a functional
>    preliminary version of them :)
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>    4) We will add components for Numbers, Dates, etc. (+NumberInputFieldPresenter+ is already implemented)
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>    5) We will revisit all other components.
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>    As a roadmap, is pretty ambicious but is looking good so far :)
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> cheers!
> Esteban
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