LivingCode was: Clickable class side example and initialize methods in Pharo 4.0

> I guess so, although I am not really sure what I am looking at - but it
> seems very cool.


kilon.alios wrote
> What the hell is that, looks very interesting !!!!

Ha ha, yeah I guess a bit of context would help ;)

It's a prototype I've been working on that combines some of (IMHO) the best
IDE ideas of various systems. That particular one shows Self Outliners (the
Morphs on the left of the connector). By pressing $M when an outliner has
the focus, you get a "Message Menu" of Scratch-like interactive tiles for
all the messages it understands. You can click on the unary messages or type
expressions for the ones taking arguments (actually just realized that the
binary ones don't work so just keyword messages right now). When the message
is sent, a new Self Outliner open(s)InHand on the result.

It's a WIP, but if you want to play, start with:

1.
Gofer it
        smalltalkhubUser: 'SeanDeNigris' project: 'SeansPlayground';
        configurationOf: 'LivingCode';
        load. "Strangely I can not #loadDevelopment here because the
ScrollableWorldMorph package doesn't get loaded, even though it does with
the next line"
#ConfigurationOfLivingCode asClass project development load.
#SelfWorld asClass open.

2. Then in the search bar, type an evaluatable expression, e.g. "1" and
accept
3. Drop the Outliner from the hand into the Self World
4. For fun, click the world background and drag. OMG, you have an infinite
world
5. Click on the M button in the outliner and the message menu will appear
(erroneously in the World instead of the Self World).
6. Expand e.g. the "bit manipulation" protocol (assuming you started with
"1" as above)
7. Click into the text field to the right of bitAnd: and accept the text
A new Outliner of the result will appear in the hand

Other buttons on the Outliner:
B - open a nautilus on the class of the object
I - traditional inspector
S - open the test class if it exists (I call them Specification(s) in my
personal work)
E - Evaluator (very close to Self)

Also, if you click on the icons to the right of "class" and "package"
Outliner(s) will appear on those objects.

That's pretty much it for now.



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Sean
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kilon.alios wrote
> Dont know what you feed this monster but it took forever to load on Pharo
> 4
> and now it gives me the error MNU receiver of "do:" is nil

Yes I should've mentioned that I've only tested on 3.0.


kilon.alios wrote
> Are you serious about this project or its just a little experiment for you
> ?

I'm serious. I want this to be my only development tool.

I remember how weak the old System Browser felt compared to OmniBrowser, and
eagerly anticipated Nautilus. When it arrived I was in a very different
place after researching the principles behind revolutionary systems
SketchPad, Self, Morphic and others. So I realized that the real barrier to
my expression was not the quality of the browser, but the browser concept
itself. A browser, for me, is just too abstract, and keeps my mental model
too far removed from "sending messages to live objects".

I've been thinking carefully and going very slowly because there are so many
ideas that it's easy to get lost trying to reinvent everything at once. I
don't really know the next step until I live with the system for a while in
each stage. Although I think once code editing and graph layout are
implemented, there will be a reasonable foundation.

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