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