Re: [Help-smalltalk] [ANN] Overlord, an IDE for GNU Smalltalk

[Gwenaël Casaccio]

On 05/08/2011 13:22, ZuLuuuuuu wrote:
> MrGwen wrote:
> > On 05/08/2011 11:17, ZuLuuuuuu wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am working on an IDE for GNU Smalltalk from time to time. It is called
> > > Overlord and it is a simple and classic class browser like gst-blox (so
> > > nothing new). It has come to a stage where it might have its usage for
> > > some
> > > people.
> > >
> > > Besides the very very ugly coding, it lacks some major features like
> > > exporting capability, debugger and inspector. Also its text editor is
> > > just a
> > > text view for now... But you can do simple things like
> > > adding/editing/removing namespaces, classes, methods and it has syntax
> > > highlighting.
> > >
> > > I haven't packaged it yet (actually I might need a help there I don't
> > > know
> > > how gst-blox or gst-browser executers are created) so here is a tarball:
> > >
> > > http://www.canol.info/smalltalk/Overlord.tar.gz
> > >
> > > To install:
> > >
> > > 1) Extract the tarball
> > > 2) cd ~/the-folder-you-extracted-into/Overlord (this is necessary)
> > > 3) gst ./Main.st
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > gst -I "the-path-to-image-you-want-to-open" ./Main.st
> > >
> > > Here is a screencast to see it in action. I do a classic hello world web
> > > application example using Iliad:
> > >
> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWArTTtsZ-0
> > >
> > > Comments and contributions are welcome...
> > >
> > > -----
> > > Canol Gökel
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> > Hi Canol,
> >
> > Nice to have a new ide for GST, but why haven't you consider improving
> > VisualGST ?
> > For instance your dialog for the class building is nice and I guess I
> > would add it,
> > why haven't you send a mail about the ide...
> >
> > So we will have two inspectors, two transcripts, two workspaces ...
> >
> > For instance the debugger of VisualGST could be improved send a patch,
> > have you looked at all the changes I've made for GTK in VisualGST
> > or at the GTK-Tools?
> >
> > I guess we can work together to provide a better IDE at least I want that.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Gwen
> I started to code this IDE to learn more about reflection and how to create
> workspaces, transcripts etc. but VisualGST is a pretty big project and its
> codebase was pretty big so I decided to code one from scratch.
>
> We can share code between the IDEs, I guess. I'll choose MIT or GNU or
> something like that (any suggestions?). And now that I know more about these
> stuff I might be able to contribute to VisualGST in the future.
>
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Great Canol,  I know VisualGST is a big project, but if everybody 
creates its own IDE
nothing will work for the *community*. For instance I've made a lot of 
improvements
for GTK (menu creation, main window, ...) and everybody that want to 
create a GTK apps
could reuse it (do you recall the treeview example I show you ?). Also 
what is important is
to create a community around VisualGST (users/developers) to improve it.

Tomorrow I'll integrate the package and class builder in VisualGST.

Cheers,
Gwen