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Buddha Buck

How do I get UIPainter to work on Pharo 3.0?

I am trying to learn Spec (which seems to be a moving target), and I don't know how all the various widgets and tools are supposed to work.

Given that there is a Spec-based UIPainter project as part of this years Google Summer of Code (recently completed), I thought it would be a good idea to check that out. At the very least, I could poke around at the generated code and get a handle on how it works.

Trying to load UIPainter (as per the instructions on http://uipainter-gsoc.over-blog.com/how-to-install-it) into Pharo 2.0 yielded errors about UIPainter being dependent on certain Spec classes which weren't available in Spec on Pharo 2.0.

The instructions do say Pharo 3.0, so I downloaded the latest image (as of a few days ago), and tried again. The same errors came up.

A search of the changelogs makes me thing that Pharo 30448 is the change that likely broke this, as it's titled "Remove Morphic Dependency from Spec" and removes a lot of Spec-Widget stuff. This change was also made after the "how to install" page was written.

So how should I proceed? Should I grab image 30447 and work form that? Should I wait for Spec to stabilize and get documented?

I'm a newbie to Smalltalk and to Pharo, so I don't know the customs yet.

philippeback

Re: How do I get UIPainter to work on Pharo 3.0?

Moving target indeed.

You may want to look for senders of openAsSpec for looking at examples.

Phil

On Tuesday, October 22, 2013, Buddha Buck <[hidden email]> wrote:
> I am trying to learn Spec (which seems to be a moving target), and I don't know how all the various widgets and tools are supposed to work.
> Given that there is a Spec-based UIPainter project as part of this years Google Summer of Code (recently completed), I thought it would be a good idea to check that out. At the very least, I could poke around at the generated code and get a handle on how it works.
> Trying to load UIPainter (as per the instructions on http://uipainter-gsoc.over-blog.com/how-to-install-it) into Pharo 2.0 yielded errors about UIPainter being dependent on certain Spec classes which weren't available in Spec on Pharo 2.0.
> The instructions do say Pharo 3.0, so I downloaded the latest image (as of a few days ago), and tried again. The same errors came up.
> A search of the changelogs makes me thing that Pharo 30448 is the change that likely broke this, as it's titled "Remove Morphic Dependency from Spec" and removes a lot of Spec-Widget stuff. This change was also made after the "how to install" page was written.
> So how should I proceed? Should I grab image 30447 and work form that? Should I wait for Spec to stabilize and get documented?
> I'm a newbie to Smalltalk and to Pharo, so I don't know the customs yet.
>

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Stéphane Ducasse

Re: How do I get UIPainter to work on Pharo 3.0?

In reply to this post by Buddha Buck

Pay attention

- we are sorry and yes spec evolves over time. It is getting stabilized

- the UiPainter is an experiment

- pay attention that Spec got a new pass on it in Pharo3.0alpha

- if you are ready for a bit of edge cutting version, use the latest version and ask questions.

On Oct 22, 2013, at 12:29 AM, Buddha Buck <[hidden email]> wrote:

I am trying to learn Spec (which seems to be a moving target), and I don't know how all the various widgets and tools are supposed to work.

Given that there is a Spec-based UIPainter project as part of this years Google Summer of Code (recently completed), I thought it would be a good idea to check that out. At the very least, I could poke around at the generated code and get a handle on how it works.

Trying to load UIPainter (as per the instructions on http://uipainter-gsoc.over-blog.com/how-to-install-it) into Pharo 2.0 yielded errors about UIPainter being dependent on certain Spec classes which weren't available in Spec on Pharo 2.0.

The instructions do say Pharo 3.0, so I downloaded the latest image (as of a few days ago), and tried again. The same errors came up.

A search of the changelogs makes me thing that Pharo 30448 is the change that likely broke this, as it's titled "Remove Morphic Dependency from Spec" and removes a lot of Spec-Widget stuff. This change was also made after the "how to install" page was written.

So how should I proceed? Should I grab image 30447 and work form that? Should I wait for Spec to stabilize and get documented?

I'm a newbie to Smalltalk and to Pharo, so I don't know the customs yet.

Welcome

We are sorry that the system is not better but we are working steadily on it.

Stef