[UI8] UI8Workspace

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[UI8] UI8Workspace

The UI8Workspace is a classic Smalltalk workspace implementation with support for doIt, evalIt, fileItIn, inspectIt and showIt.
As in most Smalltalk workspaces you can retrieve the evaluation result, the current code, load/save contents, etc.

	Show it action.	Show the result of evaluating the selected text as smalltalk code.
	Do it action.	Evaluate the selected text as smalltalk code.
	Steps action.	Open a step by step executor on the selected expression
	Inspect it action.	Open an inspector on the result of evaluating the selected text. See [UI8] UI8Inspector
	File it in action.	Perform a fileIn on selected text.
	Eval it action.	Evaluate the javascript code in selected text.
	Browse chunks action.	Compare, explore or fileIn for selected chunks of code. See [UI8] UI8ChunkBrowser.
	Qr action.	Shows a QrCode of selected text in code pane.
	Quick list action.	Open a QuickList tool
	Browse action.	Opens a new CHB.
	Connect action.	Let the workspace be binded to a remote source. See also [S8] Binding to a remote S8 system.
	Browse references action	Opens a new references tool. See [UI8] UI8References
	Screen action	Opens a new screen tool. See [UI8] UI8Screen
	Snapshot action	Opens a new snapshot tool. See [UI8] UI8Snapshot
	Reset connection action.	Clears cached remote classes in remote System Browser instances.
	Transfer action.	Transfer local compiled chunks to a connected remote system.

Droping files

UI8Workspace can acepts droped files from your favorite OS desktop. You can drop .txt, .cls or .st files onto workspace for an easy acces to source code. Every sublcass of UI8Application have a default behavior for droping files, opening an UI8Workspace with selected file contents ready for use.

Editing files with UI8Workspace

If you need edit files it is posible open UI8Workspace in 'editor' modality. You can do this evaluating the following expression:

UI8Workspace openFile:'LibrariesLoaded.st'.

In this case 'LibrariesLoaded.st' is a file relative to any WI8+UI8 contribution based.

Uploaded Image: workspace3.png

Two additional actions:

	Load action.	Reload the recently opened file.
	Save action.	If you are actualy logedon in U8 site you will be able to save the edited file. Otherwise a message will be displayed.

Using Qr code

By clicking

button in toolbar will show the actual content (or selected text) of code pane content in Qr image. It can be used for read or interchange data between S8 images. It is posible also trigger actions to other devices runnig an S8 image.

Uploaded Image: workspaceQr.png

See also how to transfer code to your phone.

Hierarchy

UI8Workspace inherits from [UI8] UI8ToolApplication and is the base class for:

Events

UI8Workspace can handle the following events (besides the ones inherited from its superclass):

getPreference	-
needsCodePane	-
needsResultPane	-
needsCodeContents	-
loadContents:	-
saveContents:	-