Hi,

Great work, Luke!

This is very nice external validation that this whole theory with moldable environment and humane assessment actually works in practice :). And you did it alone!


Doru

> On Aug 3, 2017, at 12:23 PM, Andrei Chis <chisvasileandrei@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Luke,
>
> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Luke Gorrie <luke@snabb.co> wrote:
> I have built an application based on the GTInspector. Hurray!
>
> Looks really nice!
>
>
> Now I want to share it and I need to write documentation. I would like to include screenshots in the docs but I don't want to create them by hand.
>
> So my question is: Is there an easy way to automatically generate screenshots for GTInspector extension methods? e.g. to specify an object and the name of a presentation and to get a PNG file of how that looks in the GTInspector.
>
> To add to Juraj's email you can use something like the following:
>
>
> inspectorWindow := GTInspector inspector: Morph new.
> inspector := inspectorWindow model.
>
> inspectorsPresentations := inspector panes first presentations first cachedPresentation first.
> inspectorsPresentations pane lastActivePresentation: (inspectorsPresentations presentations detect: [ :each|
>       each title = 'Morph']).
>
> morph := inspectorWindow.
> "morph exportAsPNG."
> file :=  Smalltalk imageDirectory / morph externalName, '.png'.
> PNGReadWriter putForm: morph imageForm onFileNamed: file.
>
> inspectorWindow close.
>
>
> This opens an inspector, selects a certain presentation based on its title and then exports the entire inspector window as a png.
> If you want to export only certain parts of the inspector you can play with Morph>>#allMorphsDo: to locate within the inspector window for example only the morph showing a certain presentation.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> P.S. References to how other people write their docs in general would be interesting.
>
> I usually use pillar :). There are several extension for the inspector that you can use to edit pilar documents.
>
>
> P.P.S. Here is GTInspector browsing internal data structures of a JIT compiler :-)
>
> Quite nice!
>
> Cheers,
> Andrei
>
>
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