This is always a challenge, I mean collect all the knowledge disperse on the mailing lists.<div><br></div><div>Don't think you that more than tons of workspaces we should port the Help System? Someone looked into it to understand if is a big job?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just my 2 cents....</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/1/4 Juan Vuletich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:juan@jvuletich.org" target="_blank">juan@jvuletich.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Hannes,<div class="im"><br>
<br>
H. Hirzel wrote:<br>
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Hello Juan<br>
<br>
In Squeak and Pharo the Transcript window is like a Workspace.<br>
<br>
For me when I first saw that this is different in Cuis I was wondering<br>
why this is so.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://jvuletich.org/pipermail/cuis_jvuletich.org/2012-August/000195.html" target="_blank">http://jvuletich.org/<u></u>pipermail/cuis_jvuletich.org/<u></u>2012-August/000195.html</a><br>
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At first glance it seems unnecessary reduction.<br>
<br>
You then listed the reasons for this<br>
<a href="http://jvuletich.org/pipermail/cuis_jvuletich.org/2012-August/000197.html" target="_blank">http://jvuletich.org/<u></u>pipermail/cuis_jvuletich.org/<u></u>2012-August/000197.html</a><br>
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May I propose to add another help window<br>
<br>
Title: 'About the Transcript window'<br>
<br>
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Good idea. Will add it later today.<div class="im"><br>
<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
with the content<br>
<br>
In Cuis, the Transcript is not an editor and it doesn't allow the usual<br>
operations of a text editor. This was necessary to implement these<br>
properties (Cuis 3.1 release notes):<br>
<br>
Fast (Calls return quickly)<br>
Fast (Updates are immediate)<br>
Thread safe<br>
Can log to file in addition to Display<br>
Display output is optional (for headless images)<br>
Can work on a bare bones image (Doesn't need UI, dependency,<br>
events, processes)<br>
Optional morphic window for seamless integration in Morphic<br>
UI framework agnostic. Can be used to debug Morphic, even<br>
with the morphic window open, without crashing the image!<br>
No longer a text editor. Display is read only.<br>
<br>
So, Transcript is not a part of Morphic anymore, and just blits contents<br>
to the Display. You need to do right click / workspace with contents.<br>
This opens a workspace, where you can select and copy portions.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Reason:<br>
People should not perceive the Transcript window as being deficient<br>
but actually make active use of the new facilities (e.g. in analyzing<br>
Morphic)<br>
<br>
It would actually even be good that this is implemented in Squeak as well.<br>
<br>
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</blockquote>
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That was my intention. See <a href="http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2011-February/157402.html" target="_blank">http://lists.squeakfoundation.<u></u>org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2011-<u></u>February/157402.html</a> . However, Eliot failed to declare me a hero ;) , and Squeak didn't include it. When anybody starts hacking Morphic seriously, the need for such a tool becomes evident...<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Juan Vuletich<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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Kind regards<br>
Hannes<br>
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