Re: Beginners Digest, Vol 156, Issue 5

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>    1. code to retrieve all method categories and methods under a
>       category (tty)
>    2. Re: Squeak Oversight Board Election 2020 (Ron Teitelbaum)
>    3. Re: code to retrieve all method categories and methods under
>       a category (Tim Johnson)
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> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 13:26:53 -0600 (CST)
> From: tty <[hidden email]>
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> Subject: [Newbies] code to retrieve all method categories and methods
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> Hi All.
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> I want to dynamically build a drop-down menu in Seaside based on the
> instance side methods I have in a class.
>
> #MyClass has method categories: "Attributes Links Paragraph....etc"
> Under Method category Links are  methods #testLinkCategory,
> testLinkExternal, testLink....etc.
>
> I have been hunting for over an hour and I see no obvious way to retrieve
> this info (I have found a way to get all the methods, but not the category
> that houses them.
>
>
> The code I have in mind has form:
>
> *categories := categoriesFor: #MyClass.
>
> categories do:[:cat | |methods|
>              methods :=  methodForClass:#MyClass category: cat.
>              methods do:[:m |
>                              "dynamically build my html here"
> ]]l*
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> Any help much appreciated.
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> thx
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> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:59:00 -0500
> From: Ron Teitelbaum <[hidden email]>
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> Subject: Re: [Newbies] Squeak Oversight Board Election 2020
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> HI All,
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> Thank you again for everyone's participation in this years Squeak Oversight
> Board election.  Edgar thank you for helping encourage people to
> participate!  Feel free to keep that up!
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> We currently have 5 candidates for 7 board seats.  In the order they
> announced:
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> Marcel Taeumel
> David T. Lewis
> Tim Rowledge
> Bert Freudenberg
> Craig Latta
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> Time is running out to announce your candidacy! Please announce soon!
> There are only 5 days left.  You can follow along by visiting this webpage:
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6636
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> I will not be available Saturday through Monday morning. If you wait to
> announce this weekend and I don't update the webpage don't panic.  I'll
> make sure to include you before the ballots go out on Monday.  It would be
> better to announce between now and Friday!
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> Also if your email has changed or you want to get on the voters list please
> let me know!  If you know someone that you would like to see on the board
> please reach out to them and ask them to run!
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> Thank you!
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> All the best,
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> Ron Teitelbaum
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> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 9:21 AM Craig Latta <[hidden email]>
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> > Hi all--
> >
> >      I'd like to serve on the Squeak Oversight Board in 2020 (wow, it
> > really does feel like Back to the Future now ;). I'm interested in
> > looking back, as we sometimes do, to plan for the 25th anniversary of
> > Squeak in 2021.
> >
> >      I've also been on a wild ride forward and to the side, with Bert's
> > SqueakJS VM and the Caffeine project. They've brought me into contact
> > with many interesting Smalltalk, JavaScript, and livecoding-adjacent
> > technologies and communities. I want to continue hatching strange ideas
> > about them with my fellow board members, and with you.
> >
> >      Once hatched, those ideas want to grow in our collaborative spaces.
> > I've been helping with the board meeting notes for some time, but we
> > haven't publicized them. I'd like to know how you'd like to see them
> > appear on the Squeak project blog, our mailing lists, and in our live
> > systems. Whatever we come up with will need to be done communally (each
> > of us is doing many other things), but I'd like to help us restart here.
> >
> >      Another technical front I've been pushing recently is modularity
> > and team development. I'd like to get some more livecoders connected
> > this year.
> >
> >
> >      thanks again!
> >      Craig
> >
> > ***
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> > [|] https://thiscontext.com
> > [|] https://caffeine.js.org
> > [|] https://toplap.org
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> > --
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> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 15:51:49 -0600
> From: Tim Johnson <[hidden email]>
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> Subject: Re: [Newbies] code to retrieve all method categories and
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> Hi Timothy,
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> On Jan 15, 2020, at 1:26 PM, tty wrote:
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> > Hi All.
> >
> > I want to dynamically build a drop-down menu in Seaside based on the
> > instance side methods I have in a class.
>
> Have you looked at the Seaside sample code for the WABrowser?  On some Seaside images it will be registered at tools/classbrowser by default.  I believe it uses a normal Browser as its model, so that's where to go to find out what's actually going on in the background.
>
> > I have been hunting for over an hour and I see no obvious way to retrieve
> > this info (I have found a way to get all the methods, but not the category
> > that houses them.
> >
> > Any help much appreciated.
>
> Have you looked at ClassOrganizer and ClassDescription?
>
> best,
> a Tim
>
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> Hi Mark,
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> Thank you.
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>
> Inspecting:
> (WikitextParserFactory packageInfo referenceForMethod: #testTableCaption
> ofClass: WikitextParserFactory)
>
> the method symbol is populated but the 'category' is nil.