Improved version of StartupPreferences

mariano
how can you override a general behavior without redoing it?

Stef

On May 7, 2012, at 10:21 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:

> Hi guys. After playing a little bit with StartupPreferences, and continuing the effort of Ben (thanks Ben for yet another great tool), I generate a improved (from my point of view) version of the tool.
>
> The main changes are:
>
> a) Previously the tool searched files 1) first in image directory, 2) then in the preference folder and 3) finally in the general preference folder. As soon as it found at least one file, I didn't continue with the rest of the places. Now, it starts the other way around, from the most general to the most spceific. Starts in 3), then 2) and finally 3). Moreover, it does not stop when it finds files in any of them. So all are searched and executed. It works or or less the same way as variables in UNIX with .bashrc /etc/envirorment, etc...
>
> b) I have created several class side methods (addAtStartup*) to create given actions into the current directory. Previously, files were created in 2 folders at the same time and there were only the possibility to create only in one place. Now you can add startup actions in any of the 3 places mentioned in a)
>
> c) Added a whole protocol (remove* and clean*) to remove script files from all folders of a) and also to clean the internal stored actions.
>
> d) Lots of internal refactors to reuse code and less hardcoding.
>
> Does someone want to take a look to the slice ?
> Slice in inbox: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5835
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Mariano
> http://marianopeck.wordpress.com
>

On May 8, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Damien Cassou wrote:

> Hi Mariano,
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Mariano Martinez Peck
> <[hidden email]> wrote:

>> Hi guys. After playing a little bit with StartupPreferences, and continuing
>> the effort of Ben (thanks Ben for yet another great tool), I generate a
>> improved (from my point of view) version of the tool.
>

> your changes make sense. Nevertheless, I thought that looking into the
> preferences folder was disabled. Did you fix that?
>

It is enabled now for all platform but windows.

Mariano Martinez Peck wrote

>
> /Users/mariano/.config/pharo/general  you have a script that does:
>

Should be "/Users/mariano/.pharo/config/general", no?

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Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:

Hi guys. After playing a little bit with StartupPreferences, and continuing
the effort of Ben (thanks Ben for yet another great tool), I generate a
improved (from my point of view) version of the tool.

The main changes are:

a) Previously the tool searched files 1) first in image directory, 2) then
in the preference folder and 3) finally in the general preference folder.
As soon as it found at least one file, I didn't continue with the rest of
the places. Now, it starts the other way around, from the most general to
the most spceific. Starts in 3), then 2) and finally 1)

Moreover, it does
not stop when it finds files in any of them. So all are searched and
executed. It works or or less the same way as variables in UNIX with
.bashrc /etc/envirorment, etc...
 

Did it actually work like that?

I thought it had worked for me processing more than one file from each preferences folders.

It seemed only the image folder was restricted to a single specific file 'startup.st'  I assume this was to avoid processing any other random .st files that might happen appear in the image folder.  I had been considering a refactoring like your #lookInFolder, but was concerned about picking up random .st files in the image folder.

I haven't gone through the your new methods in detail, but I've expanded your changes to the existing architecture to also resolve the issue with Windows.
Basically I've thrown away what I was trying to do putting the configs into standard Microsoft locations. That was mainly to deal the location of config folders being hardcoded at two level down from root, which I have now removed this constraint.  The config folder can now be located anywhere in the parent path from the image up to root.

The key addition is #ascendingSearchForDirectory for which you can try these out...
  FileDirectory default ascendingSearchForDirectory:  'mariano'      FileDirectory default ascendingSearchForDirectory:  'Users'      FileDirectory default ascendingSearchForDirectory:  'Contents'    "Valid for one-click image"
  FileDirectory default ascendingSearchForDirectory: FileDirectory configFolderLocalName      FileDirectory preferencesGeneralFolder
  FileDirectory preferencesFolder

b) I have created several class side methods (addAtStartup*) to create
given actions into the current directory. Previously, files were created in
2 folders at the same time and there were only the possibility to create
only in one place. Now you can add startup actions in any of the 3 places
mentioned in a)

c) Added a whole protocol (remove* and clean*) to remove script files from
all folders of a) and also to clean the internal stored actions.

d) Lots of internal refactors to reuse code and less hardcoding.

Does someone want to take a look to the slice ?
Slice in inbox: http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5835

Cheers,

 

   

I copy paste here part of my future blog post (once this is integrated I
will publish it). This is how it works NOW in ORDER:

  1. The image folder: The startup only searches for a file called ‘

  startup.st’. So if you have such a file in the same directory where the
  image is, then such script will be executed automatically. This type of
  startup is usually used to do something that is application-specific or
  something that only makes sense for the specific image you are using.

  2. Preference folder: This is a specific folder for a specific Pharo

  version. This folder is in the $HOME (kind of) of the current OS’ user.
  Therefore, this folder is shared for all the images you open. To know the
  real value, print the result of “FileDirectory preferencesFolder”. In my
  case (in MaxOSX) and Pharo 2.0, it is ’/Users/mariano/.config/pharo/2.0′.
  In this place, StartupLoader will load ALL existing .st files. This type of
  startup is useful when we have something to execute for all images of a
  specific Pharo version.

  3. General preferences folder: this is similar to the previous one with

  the difference that it is general for all Pharo versions. To know the
  value, print “FileDirectory preferencesGeneralFolder”, which in my case is
  ‘/Users/mariano/.config/pharo/general’. This type of startup is useful when
  we have something to execute for all images of any Pharo version.




 

I haven't gone through the your new methods in detail, but I've expanded
your changes to the existing architecture to also resolve the issue with
Windows.
Basically I've thrown away what I was trying to do putting the configs
into standard Microsoft locations. That was mainly to deal the location of
config folders being hardcoded at two level down from root, which I have
now removed this constraint.  The config folder can now be located anywhere
in the parent path from the image up to root.

The key addition is #ascendingSearchForDirectory for which you can try
these out...
 FileDirectory default ascendingSearchForDirectory:  'mariano'
 FileDirectory default ascendingSearchForDirectory:  'Users'
 FileDirectory default ascendingSearchForDirectory:  'Contents'    "Valid
for one-click image"
 FileDirectory default ascendingSearchForDirectory: FileDirectory
configFolderLocalName      FileDirectory preferencesGeneralFolder
 FileDirectory preferencesFolder


   

Excellent. So it means that then it is  working for Windows also?

 

Yes. It works for Windows - now with the same (modified) logic as Unix.

 

 b) I have created several class side methods (addAtStartup*) to create
   

given actions into the current directory. Previously, files were created
in
2 folders at the same time and there were only the possibility to create
only in one place. Now you can add startup actions in any of the 3 places
mentioned in a)

c) Added a whole protocol (remove* and clean*) to remove script files from
all folders of a) and also to clean the internal stored actions.

d) Lots of internal refactors to reuse code and less hardcoding.

Does someone want to take a look to the slice ?

Slice in inbox: http://code.google.com/p/**pharo/issues/detail?id=5835<http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=5835>

Cheers,