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5) What are GTPlayground "Bindings" and in which case does the "Refresh" make sense?

I am by no means an expert but I know some things.

I share a lot of your questions too.

5) What are GTPlayground "Bindings" and in which case does the "Refresh" make sense?

The bindings show which variables have been defined in the Playground's workspace and which object are they linked to.

Variables are created when you execute code such as:

number := 24.

Have you executed code like below:

| text |

text := 'Hello ninjas'.

This wouldn't generate a binding.

To know what's binded is important so you know if you are leaking objects or if you have unwittingly declared a variable and you script is working oddly.

On 4 May 2015 at 02:21, Mariano Martinez Peck <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I am already enjoying GTSpotter every day. I cannot believe how good it is.
> And I tell you....I have been using this kind of tool since the first
> available one we have YEARS ago (Algernon, then Spotlight etc...). And
> GTSpotter is a life better than those. So...thank you VERY MUCH.
>
> My only problem right now is that I am afraid I am not yet using 100% of
> it's power. I think it has features that I read randomly in different emails
> and posts so I am afraid it has more...
>
> A couple of questions:
>
> 1) Is there a way to force GTSpotter preview via preferences or somehow via
> code so that I can build it as part of my app images?  I know GTSpotter then
> remembers that but I would like to build images directly with that (some
> users of my images may now be aware of such features so I want them to see
> it out of the box).
>
> 2) How does it work regex or similar when you search? I seem to see things
> like "M B"  or "M #a" etc...so...which are all symbols (#, * , ^ etc)
> allowed?
>
> 3) Are there more "actions" than the default action? For example, when
> browser classes, methods etc... default action opens a new system browser.
> So..are there OTHER possible actions? If true, which ones? How can I know
> all of the available ones?
>
> 4) GTPlayground seems to have tabs and it seems I can even rename a current
> playground. However...I cannot seem to be able to add more tabs and then
> easily move across tabs. I have to open other playgrounds for it. So...I am
> doing something wrong? If multiple tabs are not allow then I think the tabs
> are a bit confusing here.
>

Hi,
for the playground I found it weird too. The tab and the name are not
for multi tab.
If you name a tab and save the content (alt + s), if you close the tab
you can reopen it with GTSpotter. (for example if you name your tab
"MarianoWorkToDo" and you look for "MarianoWorkToDo" on GTSpotter
you'll fin your playground.
You can apparently also name your tab "customScript" and that will
save your script into you "package-stash" folder. (you can change the
folder into the settings of glamour).

> 5) What are GTPlayground "Bindings" and in which case does the "Refresh"
> make sense?
>
> I probably have more questions but I wanted to ask this at least.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
>
> --
> Mariano
> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

--
Cheers
Cyril Ferlicot

Hi guys, 

I am already enjoying GTSpotter every day. I cannot believe how good it is. And I tell you....I have been using this kind of tool since the first available one we have YEARS ago (Algernon, then Spotlight etc...). And GTSpotter is a life better than those. So...thank you VERY MUCH.

Does these new changes justify an edit of that blog entry?

Maybe a link?

​(I'm reading it right now)

Hi guys, 

I am already enjoying GTSpotter every day. I cannot believe how good it is. And I tell you....I have been using this kind of tool since the first available one we have YEARS ago (Algernon, then Spotlight etc...). And GTSpotter is a life better than those. So...thank you VERY MUCH.

My only problem right now is that I am afraid I am not yet using 100% of it's power. I think it has features that I read randomly in different emails and posts so I am afraid it has more... 

A couple of questions:

1) Is there a way to force GTSpotter preview via preferences or somehow via code so that I can build it as part of my app images?  I know GTSpotter then remembers that but I would like to build images directly with that (some users of my images may now be aware of such features so I want them to see it out of the box).

2) How does it work regex or similar when you search? I seem to see things like "M B"  or "M #a" etc...so...which are all symbols (#, * , ^ etc)  allowed? 

3) Are there more "actions" than the default action? For example, when browser classes, methods etc... default action opens a new system browser. So..are there OTHER possible actions? If true, which ones? How can I know all of the available ones? 

4) GTPlayground seems to have tabs and it seems I can even rename a current playground. However...I cannot seem to be able to add more tabs and then easily move across tabs. I have to open other playgrounds for it. So...I am doing something wrong? If multiple tabs are not allow then I think the tabs are a bit confusing here.

5) What are GTPlayground "Bindings" and in which case does the "Refresh" make sense?

Hi guys, 

I am already enjoying GTSpotter every day. I cannot believe how good it is. And I tell you....I have been using this kind of tool since the first available one we have YEARS ago (Algernon, then Spotlight etc...). And GTSpotter is a life better than those. So...thank you VERY MUCH.

My only problem right now is that I am afraid I am not yet using 100% of it's power. I think it has features that I read randomly in different emails and posts so I am afraid it has more... 

A couple of questions:

1) Is there a way to force GTSpotter preview via preferences or somehow via code so that I can build it as part of my app images?  I know GTSpotter then remembers that but I would like to build images directly with that (some users of my images may now be aware of such features so I want them to see it out of the box).

2) How does it work regex or similar when you search? I seem to see things like "M B"  or "M #a" etc...so...which are all symbols (#, * , ^ etc)  allowed? 

3) Are there more "actions" than the default action? For example, when browser classes, methods etc... default action opens a new system browser. So..are there OTHER possible actions? If true, which ones? How can I know all of the available ones? 

4) GTPlayground seems to have tabs and it seems I can even rename a current playground. However...I cannot seem to be able to add more tabs and then easily move across tabs. I have to open other playgrounds for it. So...I am doing something wrong? If multiple tabs are not allow then I think the tabs are a bit confusing here.

5) What are GTPlayground "Bindings" and in which case does the "Refresh" make sense?

I probably have more questions but I wanted to ask this at least. 

Thanks in advance, 

--

Mariano
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi guys, 

I am already enjoying GTSpotter every day. I cannot believe how good it is. And I tell you....I have been using this kind of tool since the first available one we have YEARS ago (Algernon, then Spotlight etc...). And GTSpotter is a life better than those. So...thank you VERY MUCH.

What is so funny is that I was reviewing an old blog of mine: https://marianopeck.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/pharo-tips-and-tricks/

and the new gt tools and latest Pharo 4.0 almost removes half of my needed "tricks" 

Hi,

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:21 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi guys, 

I am already enjoying GTSpotter every day. I cannot believe how good it is. And I tell you....I have been using this kind of tool since the first available one we have YEARS ago (Algernon, then Spotlight etc...). And GTSpotter is a life better than those. So...thank you VERY MUCH.

My only problem right now is that I am afraid I am not yet using 100% of it's power. I think it has features that I read randomly in different emails and posts so I am afraid it has more... 

A couple of questions:

1) Is there a way to force GTSpotter preview via preferences or somehow via code so that I can build it as part of my app images?  I know GTSpotter then remembers that but I would like to build images directly with that (some users of my images may now be aware of such features so I want them to see it out of the box).

Right now there isn't a setting for that, which is a bug.

You can still execute 'GTSpotter showPreview' to enable the preview

 

2) How does it work regex or similar when you search? I seem to see things like "M B"  or "M #a" etc...so...which are all symbols (#, * , ^ etc)  allowed? 

For the moment the query language that does not support regex. You can just use # to filter the categories that are displayed. 

If you enter 'copy #i' than you will only get implementors. 

Still you can create your own custom searches that use regex.

For example look in spotterForCachedPlaygroundPagesFor:. In your searches instead of GTFilterSubstring you can you GTFilterRegex, GTFilterAlike, etc.

 

3) Are there more "actions" than the default action? For example, when browser classes, methods etc... default action opens a new system browser. So..are there OTHER possible actions? If true, which ones? How can I know all of the available ones? 

Again for the moment there aren't any extra actions. Just enter that opens the entity in a browser/inspector/etc, and dive-in.

Specific actions for each type of element are on the way

 

4) GTPlayground seems to have tabs and it seems I can even rename a current playground. However...I cannot seem to be able to add more tabs and then easily move across tabs. I have to open other playgrounds for it. So...I am doing something wrong? If multiple tabs are not allow then I think the tabs are a bit confusing here.

As others said for the moment you cannot add more tabs.

You can rename the tab label which will create a file with that name in the play-stash folder in the image directory.

Cheers,

Andrei

 

5) What are GTPlayground "Bindings" and in which case does the "Refresh" make sense?

I probably have more questions but I wanted to ask this at least. 

Thanks in advance, 

--

Mariano
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Andrei Chis <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:21 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi guys, 

I am already enjoying GTSpotter every day. I cannot believe how good it is. And I tell you....I have been using this kind of tool since the first available one we have YEARS ago (Algernon, then Spotlight etc...). And GTSpotter is a life better than those. So...thank you VERY MUCH.

My only problem right now is that I am afraid I am not yet using 100% of it's power. I think it has features that I read randomly in different emails and posts so I am afraid it has more... 

A couple of questions:

1) Is there a way to force GTSpotter preview via preferences or somehow via code so that I can build it as part of my app images?  I know GTSpotter then remembers that but I would like to build images directly with that (some users of my images may now be aware of such features so I want them to see it out of the box).

Right now there isn't a setting for that, which is a bug.

You can still execute 'GTSpotter showPreview' to enable the preview

 

Thanks, that works perfect.

 

 

2) How does it work regex or similar when you search? I seem to see things like "M B"  or "M #a" etc...so...which are all symbols (#, * , ^ etc)  allowed? 

For the moment the query language that does not support regex. You can just use # to filter the categories that are displayed. 

If you enter 'copy #i' than you will only get implementors. 

mmmm how can I filter the subclasses?  I am trying "Collection #sub" and nothing. Then I try even diving into the class and then type "#sub" but still nothing. Am I doing something wrong?

 

Still you can create your own custom searches that use regex.

For example look in spotterForCachedPlaygroundPagesFor:. In your searches instead of GTFilterSubstring you can you GTFilterRegex, GTFilterAlike, etc.

I think it would be super cool if you at least could implement by default the # and *. That would give us some power. (similar to what #matches:) does.  

 

 

3) Are there more "actions" than the default action? For example, when browser classes, methods etc... default action opens a new system browser. So..are there OTHER possible actions? If true, which ones? How can I know all of the available ones? 

Again for the moment there aren't any extra actions. Just enter that opens the entity in a browser/inspector/etc, and dive-in.

Specific actions for each type of element are on the way

Ok, good to hear about that. 

 

 

4) GTPlayground seems to have tabs and it seems I can even rename a current playground. However...I cannot seem to be able to add more tabs and then easily move across tabs. I have to open other playgrounds for it. So...I am doing something wrong? If multiple tabs are not allow then I think the tabs are a bit confusing here.

As others said for the moment you cannot add more tabs.

You can rename the tab label which will create a file with that name in the play-stash folder in the image directory.

Cool thanks. 

 

Cheers,

Andrei

 

5) What are GTPlayground "Bindings" and in which case does the "Refresh" make sense?

I probably have more questions but I wanted to ask this at least. 

Thanks in advance, 

--

Mariano
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

--

Mariano
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Andrei Chis <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:21 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi guys, 

I am already enjoying GTSpotter every day. I cannot believe how good it is. And I tell you....I have been using this kind of tool since the first available one we have YEARS ago (Algernon, then Spotlight etc...). And GTSpotter is a life better than those. So...thank you VERY MUCH.

My only problem right now is that I am afraid I am not yet using 100% of it's power. I think it has features that I read randomly in different emails and posts so I am afraid it has more... 

A couple of questions:

1) Is there a way to force GTSpotter preview via preferences or somehow via code so that I can build it as part of my app images?  I know GTSpotter then remembers that but I would like to build images directly with that (some users of my images may now be aware of such features so I want them to see it out of the box).

Right now there isn't a setting for that, which is a bug.

You can still execute 'GTSpotter showPreview' to enable the preview

 

Thanks, that works perfect.

 

 

2) How does it work regex or similar when you search? I seem to see things like "M B"  or "M #a" etc...so...which are all symbols (#, * , ^ etc)  allowed? 

For the moment the query language that does not support regex. You can just use # to filter the categories that are displayed. 

If you enter 'copy #i' than you will only get implementors. 

mmmm how can I filter the subclasses?  I am trying "Collection #sub" and nothing. Then I try even diving into the class and then type "#sub" but still nothing. Am I doing something wrong?

To filter for the subclasses of a class you have to:

- search for the class

- dive in the class

- enter #all

Right now the category containing subclasses is labeled 'All subclasses'. 

Maybe a better name would be 'Subclasses (all)'

 Cheers,

Andrei

 

Still you can create your own custom searches that use regex.

For example look in spotterForCachedPlaygroundPagesFor:. In your searches instead of GTFilterSubstring you can you GTFilterRegex, GTFilterAlike, etc.

I think it would be super cool if you at least could implement by default the # and *. That would give us some power. (similar to what #matches:) does.  

 

 

3) Are there more "actions" than the default action? For example, when browser classes, methods etc... default action opens a new system browser. So..are there OTHER possible actions? If true, which ones? How can I know all of the available ones? 

Again for the moment there aren't any extra actions. Just enter that opens the entity in a browser/inspector/etc, and dive-in.

Specific actions for each type of element are on the way

Ok, good to hear about that. 

 

 

4) GTPlayground seems to have tabs and it seems I can even rename a current playground. However...I cannot seem to be able to add more tabs and then easily move across tabs. I have to open other playgrounds for it. So...I am doing something wrong? If multiple tabs are not allow then I think the tabs are a bit confusing here.

As others said for the moment you cannot add more tabs.

You can rename the tab label which will create a file with that name in the play-stash folder in the image directory.

Cool thanks. 

 

Cheers,

Andrei

 

5) What are GTPlayground "Bindings" and in which case does the "Refresh" make sense?

I probably have more questions but I wanted to ask this at least. 

Thanks in advance, 

--

Mariano
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

--

Mariano
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

Hi guys, 

I am already enjoying GTSpotter every day. I cannot believe how good it is. And I tell you....I have been using this kind of tool since the first available one we have YEARS ago (Algernon, then Spotlight etc...). And GTSpotter is a life better than those. So...thank you VERY MUCH.

My only problem right now is that I am afraid I am not yet using 100% of it's power. I think it has features that I read randomly in different emails and posts so I am afraid it has more... 

A couple of questions:

1) Is there a way to force GTSpotter preview via preferences or somehow via code so that I can build it as part of my app images?  I know GTSpotter then remembers that but I would like to build images directly with that (some users of my images may now be aware of such features so I want them to see it out of the box).

2) How does it work regex or similar when you search? I seem to see things like "M B"  or "M #a" etc...so...which are all symbols (#, * , ^ etc)  allowed? 

3) Are there more "actions" than the default action? For example, when browser classes, methods etc... default action opens a new system browser. So..are there OTHER possible actions? If true, which ones? How can I know all of the available ones? 

4) GTPlayground seems to have tabs and it seems I can even rename a current playground. However...I cannot seem to be able to add more tabs and then easily move across tabs. I have to open other playgrounds for it. So...I am doing something wrong? If multiple tabs are not allow then I think the tabs are a bit confusing here.

5) What are GTPlayground "Bindings" and in which case does the "Refresh" make sense?

I probably have more questions but I wanted to ask this at least. 

Thanks in advance, 

--

Mariano
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com

> - copying an URL with a smalltalk code from Sven's service for sharing code in Spotter will show you the code; on enter a playground is opened with that code (to try it out: http://ws.stfx.eu/57CRUZKXOUIO)

Ah, I always wondered how to do that. Great!

But, but, impossible to figure out yourself, maybe you guys need to make more screencasts, ...