Re: [Help-smalltalk] some simple (hopefully!) visualgst ideas

[Gwenaël Casaccio]

Hi Paolo,

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> All,
>
> looks like visualgst is healthy and is introducing some interesting
> improvements to Smalltalk browsing:
>
> - sidebar sender/implementor
> - compilation errors in an infobar
> - tabbed browsing
>
> Here are some more ideas to improve VisualGST with respect to this points:
>
> 1) finish the transition to BrowserState objects by:
> - adding ContextState for the debugger
> - adding #state: to the browsers replacing the complicated #select...
> methods; setting a state automatically updates the listboxes
> - rationale: this should simplify fixing
> http://smalltalk.gnu.org/project/issue/505 by reverting to the previous
> state upon a compilation error
>

Good idea

> 2) merge the two notebooks
> - rationale: the required refactoring will ultimately make it easier to
> provide pluggable tools (e.g. sunit browser within GtkLauncher) and multiple
> GtkLaunchers
>

That should be pretty simple: create a new widget with both notebooks.

> 3) improve RBParser to provide fine-grained Exception objects; calling the
> parse error block should simply be the default action of the exceptions
> - rationale: fine grained exceptions are an easy way to customize the
> compilation error infobar and provide squeak's "declare undefined variable
> as..." functionality

Yes, we should put it in the to do list.

> - could also be used for incremental parsing. making an incomplete but valid
> parse tree can help autocompletion

For the autocompletion there is OCompletion feel free to port it ;-P.

Your idea are good, but also we should focus on these points:

- finish the package builder
- versionning support. Do you want to have everything on your image? I
don't, what
happens if there is a crash ...
- finish the debugger
- test everythings since the soft becomes bigger and bigger everything
 should be tested.

Gwen

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