Thanks this is strange that exactly the same week where we talk about that and where we discuss about announcements, such topics got interesting from some other people. We are probably not that wrong. ;) Thanks cedric keep us informed.
Stef On Mar 4, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Cédrick Béler wrote: > As some of us are unregistered, I thought it could be of interest ;) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Andreas Raab <[email protected]> > Date: 2009/3/4 > Subject: [squeak-dev] [ANN] Preference pragmas > To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list > <[email protected]> > > > Folks - > > I wanted to make the property whether to show individual processes in > MessageTally a preference and couldn't recall any of the three > gazillion methods to create one ;-) So I decided enough is enough and > added the ability to register a preference via Pragma. In other words, > you specify two class side accessors (using MessageTally as example): > > showProcesses > "Indicates whether to show each process separately or > cumulatively." > <preference: 'Show Processes in MessageTally' > category: 'debug' > balloonHelp: 'If enabled, each profiled process is > shown individually in MessageTally' > type: #Boolean> > ^ShowProcesses > > showProcesses: aBool > "Indicates whether to show each process separately or > cumulatively." > ShowProcesses := aBool. > > and then register the preference in the class initialization method > via: > > initialize > "MessageTally initialize" > "By default, show each process separately" > ShowProcesses := true. > "Register preferences" > Preferences addPreferencesFor: self. > > The nice thing about this scheme is that the preference is local to > the code where it's used and that there are no more generated > accessors which mess up Monticello packages etc. What could probably > be improved is the self-registration; I left it that way for now since > I don't know how expensive it would be to scan all classes for new > preferences when one opens a preference browser. There is also an > example class PreferenceExample that illustrates the different types > of preferences (textual, numeric, color, boolean) you can use. > > To install, just execute the following from Squeak 3.10.2: > > Installer mantis fixBug: 7306. > > Enjoy! > - Andreas > > > > > -- > Cédrick > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
