At 10:48 AM -0500 1/17/00, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Bijan Parsia wrote:
>
>> I *though* this would be a very, very quick cute thing to through together.
>> It was and it wasn't. 3 hrs of sleep is, in general, *not* enough :)
>>
>> Essentially, it allows you to paste Smalltalk methods to a Swiki and have
>> them prettyPrint out. They will look exactly (mostly?) as if you chose
>> (with left shift down) "pretty print" from the browser menu. Indeed, it
>> uses that very code, converting the output of the prettyPrinter to HTML.
>
>Been there, done that ;-)
Oh *darn*! Where were you when I was wasting my weekend? :)
>see http://swiki.gsug.org:8888/browser
>
>(I was especially proud of the tabs and assignment arrows and
>proportional font when I did this in Dec. 1998 ...)
Oh *MAN* Bert, this is beautiful. It's really really really cool! I had a
blast playing around with it (ah, thank goodness for ADSL :)) and it worked
*Really* well. Even somewhat better than VNCing an image!
But...Curse you! Now I want to do all sorts of things with this!!! ;) (The
immediate thing that sprang to mind is a bug reporting/class comment
submission/Unit Test submission tool.)
There should be an "official" one of these! It's a *great* demo.
Plus, It was useful! I was ircing someone who didn't have Squeak handy, and
our discussion was *much* more productive when I could just have him browse
the classes we we're discussion. One could do reasonable collaborative or
remote work with this! (Especially with an "accept enabled" one.) (Of
course, you'd want it password protected! :))
>I just ported the stuff from PWS to ComSwiki. It's all implemented as
>addresses and actions now (great concept indeed). You need to file in my
>HtmlWrapperStream though, as it does the formatting (if we had a
>PageFormatter that understands text attributes this wouldn't be
>necessary).
Yes. I just added "HTMLprinting" to the vairous text attribute classes. But
a formatter would be cooler.
Hmm. This gives me yet another idea, but I think I might play with it
before spewing it to the world.
"May you live in interesting times." (Chinese curse!)
Cheers,
Bijan.
