https://github.com/seandenigris/living-code

How do we make the IDE more like real life - live, direct, and fun!
https://github.com/seandenigris/living-code

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How do we make the IDE more like real life - live, direct, and fun!

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/seandenigris/living-code
• Owner: seandenigris
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-01-31T22:34:03.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-07-30T17:01:40.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-24T02:16:01.772Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: dynabook, ide, pharo, smalltalk
• Language: Smalltalk
• Size: 134 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 29
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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LivingCode

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How do we make the IDE more like real life - live, direct, and fun!

Installation

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[GToolkit](https://gtoolkit.com) is the reference platform, but the goal is for it to also work in the latest Pharo release

```smalltalk

[

	EpMonitor current disable.

	[ Metacello new

		baseline: 'LivingCode';

		repository: 'github://seandenigris/Living-Code/repository';

		"onConflict: [ :ex | ex allow ];"

		load ] ensure: [ EpMonitor current enable ].

] fork.

```

		

Quick Start Tutorial

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#### Opening a New World

From the World Menu, click "Open Self World"

Things to note:

- The world is infinite (see below for how to scroll)

- Currently, due to Morphic limitations, zooming is not available; but this is very much desired!

#### Populating the World

1. In the Self window, in the editor bar near the top, type an expression

2. Accept with either Cmd+s or [Enter]

An object, very much like an Outliner in the Self Language, will appear in your hand. Place it in the world wherever you want

#### Scrolling in the World

Just use the mouse wheel, or click and drag anywhere on the World's background

#### Navigating a Complex World

Since grokking a complex world can be difficult, there is a RadarMorph, inspired by Self's RadarView.

Try the following:

1. Accept in the window's evaluating editor: ``RadarMorph new extent: ([email protected]); openInHand``

2. Place the RadarMorph in one of the corners of the world

3. You now have a warp speed option for scrolling - click and drag in the RadarMorph. Compare the regular scrolling described above and you'll see that it is at a much finer level

Feature Map

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#### Creating new types

In self, the equivalent of creating a new instance is to copy a prototype e.g. "morph copy" ~ "Morph new". One key difference is that in most of the examples, you continue to customize the behavior, which is not a built-in way to deal with Smalltalk instances. So, we start with an equivalent of "Morph subclass: #MyMorphSubclass". In the future, we may make a real prototyping facility, but this will get the ball rolling.

#### Classifying globals

In self, one would add a slot to globals under an appropriate category and then connect the slot to the new prototype. As a Smalltalk equivalent, we include a "package" slot in all outliners. So one can drag and drop the package slot handle onto an RPackage.