I would love to have one for Groovy..!
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Torsten Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> When working with Seaside (or other frameworks) one often works with
> non-Smalltalk resources
> stored within the image (CSS styles, images, ...) often stored as strings
> within
> methods:
>
>
> myCss
> ^'body {
> background-color: #ffffce;
> }'
>
> or
>
> script
> ^'alert("hello from Javascript");'
>
>
> I also often see Base64 encoded images, or when working with XML a method
> might return XML content.
>
> With things like Helvetia [1], the reworked autocompletion/syntax
> highlighting and new
> browsers like Nautilus in mind I wonder if (may be in the not so far
> future) I can:
>
> - click on a Smalltalk method to get ST styling and edit functionality
> - click on a CSS content method to do CSS styling and completion
> - click on a method with a form content to display the picture (and not
> the Base64 encoded string)
> - click on an XML content to browse the XML tree
> - click on an HTML providing method to edit HTML and maybe preview
> - click on a method with CSV to edit the tabular data within a grid
> - click on a primitive method to see Slang or C/C++ code
> - ...
>
> Internally the content can be distinguished using pragmas:
>
>
> myCss
> <mime-type: text/css>
> ^'body {
> background-color: #ffffce;
> }'
>
>
> Are there any plans to move Pharo into this "not only Smalltalk" in
> methods direction?
>
> Is it already possible to easily extend Nautilus with "pluggable" custom
> panes depending on the
> method content.
>
> I see that there are buttons on the Nautilus side. Wouldnt it be better to
> have "Tabs"
> with "Source" as default and where I can add my own custom tabs?
>
> Would be a lot of work to provide editors and stylers for all the
> mime-types or autocompletion
> for JavaScript, SQL, ... whatever. But the question is more "do we have
> the groundwork so
> people can built up on it."
>
> Any comments?
>
> Thx
> T.
>
> [1] http://scg.unibe.ch/research/helvetia
>
>
>
