oops , i copy pasted the same link two times :D second link is this
https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/blog/screen1-624x295-1027286209.png On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:41 PM Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes sorry I need to be more specific . > > What I am trying to create is a visual programming language for Pharo and > Blender inspired by Unreal's Blueprint language > > here is how it looks > > http://s11.postimg.org/5lum5o2cj/French_BP.jpg > > The nice thing about Blueprint besides being a full blown programming > language is that is very convenient to use for those that prefer to type. > So unlike Phratch you dont drag and drop nodes (this boxes you see) instead > you right click in the Blueprint area and a pop up box similar to GTSpotter > appears, where is shows you all available nodes in categories , and like > GTSpotter it allows you to do searches that can be refined. > > Another cool feature is when you drag a cable from the inputs or outputs > of a node to connect it with another node the search box will appear again > but this time will has refined search results depending on the type of the > node and the type of its input and output. > > Here how it looks > > http://s11.postimg.org/5lum5o2cj/French_BP.jpg > > Now I think I have figured out how to do this > a) capture shift-enter on top of the morph i will be using as the node > area (thats what I meant by "upon the morph) and right click for opening a > GTSpotter that will be customised to search only nodes and do the things I > described above > > b) nodes will be basically pharo methods with a dedicated pragma that will > provide information about the type of node, its category, its outputs and > inputs and of course the type of the outputs and inputs. > > c) Then the search of GTSpotter will start always from filtering those > methods that contain this pragma. > > With what you mentioned and my study of GTSpotter extentions I think I > have managed to figure out how to do this, so thank you. > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:17 AM Nicolai Hess <nicolaih...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Dimitris, >> I don't know what you mean with >> "called upon a specific morph", but you can use Spotter to do "local" >> searches. >> >> For example, inspecting an array or a Morph or CompiledMethod and look at >> the "Search"-Icon (upper right corner). It will open a Spotter window for >> this object. >> It lets you search the items of the array, the submorphs of the morph or >> in the bytecode of the compiled method. >> >> >> >> 2016-07-21 8:27 GMT+02:00 Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com>: >> >>> I want customize GTSpotter so when it's called upon a specific morph has >>> a different behavior. Because I will be building a node system I want to >>> search only through nodes and sort them to categories. In essence I will be >>> building a visual coding language very similar to Unreal's Blueprints. Can >>> GTSpotter do this in a easy way ? I have read human assessment blog posts >>> on GTSpotter but they focus on extending it than modifying it's basic >>> behavior. Basically I want a secondary GTSpotter with heavily customized >>> behavior. >>> >> >>
