Thanks for all the suggestions for easier way to create references.
Part of the problem is that I did not sufficiently read the
documentation in the class comment. I also did not know of the PBE2
chapter referenced by Stef.
Part of the problem is also that the browser in 2.0 is presenting things
differently and I am not sure I understand fully what it is communicating.
When I look at the class methods in FileSystem most of them are gray and
a only few black. It is not self evident what the gray coloration means.
Also when one clicks on instance creation, the only method is #store:.
So unless you see the class comment, then you won't see the
documentation on using FileSystem disk workingDirectory which returns a
FileSystemDirectoryEntry instance, while FileSystem disk returns a
FileSystem instance.
I should have investigated documentation a little harder.
Jimmie
On 1/8/2013 11:01 AM, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
anyway, even if there are easier ways to create references, I think Jimmie is
right, there are inconsistencies in the protocol.
maybe for 3.0?
On Jan 8, 2013, at 5:58 PM, Camillo Bruni <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2013-01-08, at 17:55, Max Leske <[email protected]> wrote:
On 08.01.2013, at 17:07, Jimmie Houchin <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I was writing a small utility using FileSystem. I had never used FileSystem
before. So I am browsing the code trying to learn where to start and how to use
it.
It took me a little while to learn to do something like:
fs := FileSystem store: (DiskStore activeClass createDefault).
Why not
fs := FileSystem disk.
??
or:
reference := FileSystem disk referenceTo: '/foo/bar.txt'.
or:
'/foo/bar/plonk.txt' asFileReference
'/foo/bar' asFileReference
which creates a FileReference on the disk, the default
