MUHRTH@tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Muhr) (02/08/90)
Dear Smalltalkers (esp. DigiTalkers),
we will for the next few weeks have to put some manpower into
the development of some 'lowlevel'-classes and methods for
SmallTalk V/286. We will surely reinvent the wheel for some of
our problems, nevertheless there is still hope to reduce the
reinventing by 'raid and copy' code not from within our own
classes but from you! So if you have a solution (free or for
money) to some of the following problems please let us know.
1. Unremovable Dispatchers (a general solution of the hacked
Prompter-Class)
2. Store-on for cyclic objects (we happily received the code for
ST 80, so for us this will (only?) be adaption to ST V/286).
3. (Different!) coloured SubPanes
4. Texteditor with automatic wrapping.
5. Fast regular expression search ('Grep') for within textpanes.
6. Menus with non-selectable (grayed) entrys (MS-Windows style)
7. Multiple-choice ListPanes which return an Collection of
selected objects to the model rather than executing the first clicked
selector.
8. Some cute iconizing methods to differentiate objects of
different classes within the DAGPane (preferrably with
colors).
9. A drawToWithArrow: method which puts an Arrow at the end of the
line.
If we do not get help on the above topics we might give the
results to you when we have (hopefully) solutions and there is interest.
Bye and thanks -
Thomas
E-mail preferred, because our news garbage collector is from the
very fast kind!
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Thomas Muhr, Technical University of Berlin, BITNET: muhrth@db0tui11
Project ATLAS - Computer Based Tools for Qualitative Research
"Computers, like every technology, are a vehicle
for the transformation of tradition." (WINOGRAD/FLORES)