Filing out Self code
German Morales
germanmorales at delta-sys.com
Wed May 12 11:27:52 UTC 2004
Thanks, I'll try.
German Morales
--- In self-interest at yahoogroups.com, Jecel Assumpcao Jr
<jecel at m...> wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 May 2004 21:58, German Morales wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I'm using Self4Linux.
> > I've written some code in a Shell and now I have my objects
happyly
> > floating in the screen.
>
> Great!
>
> > My problem is that I need to put the written code in a document.
>
> My trainee needed this too in order to include the sources in a
report
> he was writing for a class. I wrote a short piece of code to save
the
> sources for all the methods in a given object to a file. I don't
think
> I have that anymore, but it should be simple to rewrite it.
>
> > I've tried different things without success:
> >
> > -Copy in Self4Linux, Paste in a linux text editor:
> > Nothing happens. It seems that the Self clipboard
> > is not connected with the outside world.
>
> I see that 'xStoreBytes:' in 'traits xlib display' does make an
effort
> to save the contents into the X clipboard in addition to a local
> buffer, but it doesn't seem to be working in Linux. I didn't have
> better luck in Solaris.
>
> > -Putting all the selectors in a Module, and writing it:
> > Fails. I get this error:
> > Error: ENOENT while trying to open file
> > "../objects/applications/bar.TMP".
> > Receiver is: unixGlobals os_file.
>
> The problem here is that all your files are in a single directory,
but
> on Solaris and Mac OS X you have a directory tree like
>
> self
> self/manuals
> self/objects
> self/objects/applications
> self/objects/core
> self/objects/glue
> self/objects/graphics
> self/objects/misc
> self/objects/tests
> self/objects/ui1
> self/objects/ui2
> self/objects/ui2/outliner
> self/tutorials
>
> One alternative is to change the prefix that the transporter uses
for
> saving modules from "../objects/applications/" to "./", but it
might be
> easier to just put things in an "objects" subdirectory and create
an
> empty "applications" subdirectory inside that. Don't worry about
the
> ".TMP", since that will be renamed to ".self" if there are no
problems
> during the file out (this is in order not to ruin a previous
version of
> the file in case there are problems).
>
> The code generated by the transporter isn't very pretty, but if it
isn't
> very large you can easily edit away most of the extra stuff by
hand.
>
> -- Jecel
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