Limiting the Browser View and Projects
After doing today's screencast, I got to thinking about the older idea of Smalltalk projects. Squeak still has them, I think - you could create a "project" and get a set of tools that opened in a pre-defined way. Taking the idea of a limited browser view and projects together though, and I think you could build a lightweight project browser. Consider the idea:
Instead of just "select some packages and limit the view", what if you could select some packages, give that selection set a name, and then save that name? Then, instead of having to recreate a selection set as you worked in an image, you could bounce between named "projects". Sound like a reasonable idea?
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Re: Limiting the Browser View and Projects
[anonymous] January 9, 2010 18:02:16.801
What a novel idea ! Oh! Wait! has'nt VB, Delphi, Paradox, Cache' , C++ etc etc had that idea since about 1990 ! Would be nice to see Smalltalk moving toward helping programmers control their Project's.
Sarcasm aside :-) , its a very useful idea, it would certainly help you keep your project together. The Delphi IDE was very good in this area. Its one of the more scary aspects of starting with Smalltalk programming is to be confronted with that huge package list, most of which you'll never actually use, so you're somewhat confused about how to go about coding. So separating 'my' project from the Smalltalk System stuff would be a great help.
Re: Limiting the Browser View and Projects
[anonymous] January 10, 2010 19:39:21.870
StarBrowser had some very cool capabilities along those lines. Worth another look...and maybe some contributions.