[Cuis] Class Comment Browser

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Dan,

If you inspect the InnerTextMorph in your right pane, it has:
editor: aTextEditor
styler: nil
To be able to evaluate code, you need a SmalltalkEditor. This does the trick:

CommentGuide >> editorClassFor: textGetter
	^SmalltalkEditor

If you also want Workspace like syntax highlighting, you need a
TextStyler. Add:

CommentGuide >> textStylerClassFor: textGetter
	^SHTextStylerST80

CommentGuide >> shoutAboutToStyle: aSHTextStyler
	^true

Keep in mind that most class comments can not be parsed as code! That's
why in the regular browser, methods are syntaxHighlighted, but class
comments are not.

I feel that with the hints I gave you before, you could have found out all
this yourself. You will get the most out of Smalltalk if you use the code
inspection tools as much as possible, and you are not afraid of exploring,
experimenting, and trying to learn how the system works.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich

On Tue, October 6, 2015 10:17 pm, Dan Norton wrote:
> Hi Juan,
>
>
> Delay? What delay? Not to worry :-) I regret that this problem is either
> beyond me or I'm blind to it.
>
> Had to clean up the act a bit because of all the fruitless experiments
> but the repo seems to behave OK. It is strongly desired by the (huge?)
> user community that the pane containing the comment would behave like a
> work space, e.g. allow statements to be executed and names to be
> highlighted and used to open a browser. The repo is:
>
> https://github.com/dhnorton/Cuis-Smalltalk-comments
>
>
> Please let me know what I need to do.
>
>
> - Dan
>
>
> On 6 Oct 2015 at 9:24, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Dan,
>>
>>
>> Apologies for the long delay in answering.
>>
>>
>> I think you mean the text styler, that colorizes Smalltalk code,
>> right? Well, an instance of InnerTextMorph might have a subinstance of
>> SHTextStyler in the 'styler' variable. This is "Shout", originally
>> from Squeak. But it might be disabled sometimes, as when the code pane is
>>  showing diffs, or bytecodes, etc. See #okToStyle , where the model is
>> asked whether it is appropriate to style each time.
>>
>> If you can't solve the problem, point me to the latest version of
>> CCB,
>> and briefly describe steps, expected behavior, unwanted behavior (to be
>> sure I understand), and I'll take a look.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Juan Vuletich
>>
>>
>> On 30/09/2015 06:45 p.m., Dan Norton wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Juan,
>>>
>>>
>>> The editor class seems to remain constant as SmalltalkEditor. To
>>>
>> see what is puzzling:
>>>
>>> open a browser on a class with an actual comment view the class
>>> comment (? button) select all of the comment and copy it select, then
>>> deselect a message category paste the comment in the code window as if
>>> defining a new
>> method
>>> see the difference in presentation
>>>
>>> What is making this switch? If I knew where this is done I might
>>>
>> get the behavior I want in
>>> CCB.
>>>
>>>
>>> - Dan
>>>
>>>
>>> On 30 Sep 2015 at 8:19, Juan Vuletich wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Dan,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> See the TextEditor hierarchy. See #editorClass, senders and
>>>> implementors. It is the model who decides what kind of editor to use.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> An easy way to find out about this, is to realiza that what you
>>>>
>> want
>>>> is the "Smalltalk Options" menu in code panes. Just write
>> "Smalltalk
>>
>>>> Options"
>>>> in some code pane, select it (without the quotes) and do right
>> click
>>>> /
>>>> Smalltalk Options / Method Source with it. That leads you right
>>>>
>> to
>>>> SmalltalkEditor.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Juan Vuletich
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, September 29, 2015 11:35 pm, Dan Norton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Juan,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> A little help, please. BrowserWindow uses
>>>>> CodeWindow>>buildMorphicCodePane for the
>>>>> class comment area. Although this area looks like text,
>>>> expressions
>>>>> appearing in class comments can be executed as in a workspace.
>>>>>
>>>>> I want the same behavior in Class Comment Browser, but all I
>>>>>
>> get
>>>> is text
>>>>> behavior (no execution). How can this be changed?
>>>>>
>>>>> - Dan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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