Great idea to introduce
transcript next
to get a builder object which in turn then implements the extended API!
And the extended API allows to embed expandable elements.
On 9/4/17, Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A new area is finally opening.... Great work.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 1:54 AM, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are happy to announce that the moldable editor helped us create a
>> richer transcript: GT Transcript.
>>
>> The transcript is traditionally a stream of plain text. As we now have an
>> elaborate editor, we can take advantage of it to help us display richer
>> representations.
>>
>> The API is backward compatible with the existing transcript. To enable
>> the
>> new features, we introduced a builder. For example:
>> transcript nextPutAll: ‘something’
>> becomes
>> transcript next putAll: ‘something’
>> and after #next we can add multiple attributes that we want to affect the
>> following insertion of a text.
>>
>> Below you can find an example detailing most of the API. The most notable
>> additions is the support for expandable adornments. For example,
>> #showException: provides an in-place expansion of the stack of the
>> exception context.
>>
>>
>> To get an idea of how this tool can be useful, take a look at the
>> following video showing the visual logging of a Bloc animation:
>> https://youtu.be/9VATYNaLwJY
>>
>>
>> The code can be found in the new incarnation of GToolkit:
>> Iceberg enableMetacelloIntegration: true.
>> Metacello new
>> baseline: 'GToolkit';
>> repository: 'github://feenkcom/gtoolkit/src';
>> load.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> The feenk team
>>
>> --
>> www.tudorgirba.com
>> www.feenk.com
>>
>> “Software has no shape. Actually, it has no one shape. It has many."
>>
>>
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