Some Possibly Useful Packages

While working with Martin Kobetic on the highlighter packages, I’ve had occasion to add some possibly useful packages to the public repository.  While mine are much more prosaic than, say, Linkuistics, still I think they have some utility.  Please feel free to use them.  If you have any problems, just post to this list and [hopefully] I’ll get to them.

1. TextHighlightingAll (bundle).  This is a bundle that loads all of the standard text highlighting capabilities – hyperlinks, spelling, code formatting, and extended (“hyper”) code formatting.  The bundle loads the current trunk versions which have the configurable emphasizer capability.  In particular, the “HyperRBCodeHighlighting” package provides several “hyperlink”-style emphasizers to implement its markups:  variables, selectors, and blocks.  The block capability is basically the same as the [now obsolete] RBEnclosureHighlighting package, which is incompatible with current highlighter changes.

2. UIPainterHighlighting.  This package leverages the HighlightingStyles capability to allow you to change the grid color in the UIPainter.  I’m usually on Windows, and that means the grid is this bright, overpowering shade of medium blue.  I usually set my grid size to 4, so the blue grid makes the canvas unreadable.  This package gives you some leeway.

3. BetterComments.  This package adds some extensions to Travis Griggs’ changes to the RB Comment Tool for VW 7.7.  It recognizes more items when generating the default comment, such as method annotation tags or class-side subclass responsibilities.  It also provides a way for you to define your own sections for highlighting and generation.  This package is also compatible with VW 7.6 provided you first load “BrowserCommentTool77” into your VW 7.6 image to backport Travis’ changes.

4. HoverHelpExtensions.  In older VW versions, the “fly by” help capabilities used to be configurable with a settings page providing the various options (foreground text and background shading options, plus a couple of delay settings).  These were removed by VW 7.6 because those capabilities were replaced with the hover help and tool tip assistants.  This package adds these configurable options into the current hover help system.

Cheers!

Anthony,

I think that might be useful.  I’m not sure what that would look like;  perhaps Cincom could have another package that’s maintained as part of their release process that provides those kinds of suggestions after you load it, perhaps by augmenting the current suggestions list.  However, some things are automatically included in the distribution. The bundle I cited is merely a convenience when using the public repository to load everything at once.  Martin K. indicated that he’d review the changes and open an AR to get the updates to the main trunk into the 7.8 builds, but he hasn’t done so yet that I know of.

There are quite a number of things out in the public repository that are obsolete or of questionable operability with recent changes.  For example, the RBEnclosureHighlighting uses the old parsing model and is incompatible with everything from VW7.7 on.  It needs to be marked as obsolete or otherwise removed from the delivered parcels.  Having a suggestions parcels in the repository might be an incentive to identify and blast some of the lint that’s developed over the years.

Tom

Just because something is obsolete with respect to the latest

version of VW does not mean nobody uses it. There are many

people using older versions.

We really need some way of identifying what versions a package

is compatible with.

Terry

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Anthony,

I think that might be useful.  I’m not sure what that would look like;  perhaps Cincom could have another package that’s maintained as part of their release process that provides those kinds of suggestions after you load it, perhaps by augmenting the current suggestions list.  However, some things are automatically included in the distribution. The bundle I cited is merely a convenience when using the public repository to load everything at once.  Martin K. indicated that he’d review the changes and open an AR to get the updates to the main trunk into the 7.8 builds, but he hasn’t done so yet that I know of.

There are quite a number of things out in the public repository that are obsolete or of questionable operability with recent changes.  For example, the RBEnclosureHighlighting uses the old parsing model and is incompatible with everything from VW7.7 on.  It needs to be marked as obsolete or otherwise removed from the delivered parcels.  Having a suggestions parcels in the repository might be an incentive to identify and blast some of the lint that’s developed over the years.

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