Hi guys. Since several months, I wanted to create a little browser for
learning VM and related stuff. I never did anything because I was lazy. Last
week, I took Glamour and without knowing almost anything about it, in less
than 3 hours (that includes everything, downloading the image, browsing
examples, searching for something similar to what I need, and code the
browsers I needed) , I come up with what I want to share with you.
Basically, I only have the browsers for the moment. My knowledge is very
limited in the Slang to C translator, or machine code simulation. However,
the "real VM hackers" will try to provide me such functionalities.
Having said that, there are 3 browsers:
1) VMBrowserSlang: shows only packages and classes which are written in
slang. When you select a method, you have 2 panels: smalltalk code and C
translated code.
Screenshot:
http://img857.imageshack.us/i/vmbrowserslang.png/
2) VMBrowserMethods: shows all packages and classes of the system and for
every method, you have 3 panels: smalltalk code, bytecodes and machine code
(using the simple mapping)
Screenshot:
http://img862.imageshack.us/i/vmbrowsermethods.png/
3) VMBrowserMappings: this is for you Eliot!! Basically, it shows all
packages and classes of the system and for every method, you have 5 panels:
smalltalk code and one panel per strategy to map to machine code (simple
cogit, sista, etc).
Screenshot:
http://img4.imageshack.us/f/vmbrowsermappings.png/
As you can see the idea is to see the different stages of our code at the
same time: smalltalk code, bytecodes, machine code, etc. The idea is to
easily learn.
Now...the questions:
1) how can I put a title to the browsers ? In this case, they all are
subclasses from GLMGlobalBrowserTemplate.
2) Is there a way to easily "close" and auto-adjust subpanes? For example,
look this screenshot:
http://img4.imageshack.us/f/vmbrowsermappings.png/
there are 5 panes that are rendered when a method is selected. I would love
that somehow (which a little X in the tab title, or a checkbox somewhere
with the available panes), one or more of those panes can be automatically
removed (and if added again even better). And when I remove one of them, the
others auto-adjust to ocupy the full container. It is really difficult to
explain by email..
Thanks in advance
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Mariano
http://marianopeck.wordpress.com