Re: SmallWiki release für Squeak: Hinweis zur FAQ - Import / Export, Bsp. für Aktionen

Hi Hannes, please post you questions, comments, bug-reports, etc. to the SmallWiki mailing-list so everybody is able to join the discussion and profit from the answers ... I tried the Squeak-Port too and it is great to see all the tests pass. Thanks a lot to Chris and Stephen! Unfortunately there seem to be a problem when submitting the login-form in my image, probably just because I did not take a fresh one ... Keep in mind that when replying to questions I am always referring to the VisualWorks implementation. As I am taking a lot of lectures at university and as I am working on different other Smalltalk projects too I will concentrate my energy onto the main-platform of SmallWiki solely; but obviously this shouldn't be no problem as the implementations should be the same ;) ... I've added the answers to those questions to the FAQ: * After installing SmallWiki - how do I get access to the example actions? Go to your favorite web-browser and browse to the structure you want to execute your action on. If the action is not listed at the top right corner you might want to try to execute it manually by adding/replacing the action-parameter to the url: http://localhost:8080/?action=MyExampleActionClassName. In order to make your (new) action appear automatically, you have to make sure the following conditions are set: -An action should return a title on the class-side, else it is considered to be abstract and not displayed anywhere. -An action should not throw an exception during evaluating #executePermissions, else it is not evaluated as some permissions are considered to be missing. -An action has to register to the structures it is able to handle: Page registerAction: MyExampleActionClassName -Last but not least, you should add the action to the current template using the template-editor. * Which export formats are available at the moment? Can I export the wiki text into plain text files? Right now there is no plain-text renderer (visitor) implemented and it is left to the reader to implement one ;) ... Actually it is very easy to do something like this, you might get an idea when looking at the existing renderers: HTML (VisitorRendererHtml), Wiki (VisitorRendererWiki) or Latex (VisitorRendererLatex). * If I begin using SmallWiki today in a productive environment, will it be possible to upgrade to the next versions and keep the data without too much effort? Yep, in fact I am doing this with http://kilana.unibe.ch:9090 since this spring and never got troubles updating the code. Basically you have to do the following: -save the current image: server storage snapshot -stop the storage thread by evaluating: server storage: nil -stop the web-server by evaluating (most of the time not even necessary): server stop -connect to StORE and load updates -run the tests to see if nothing got broken -start the web-server by evaluating (if you have stopped it): server start -browse to your wiki and check if everything is still there (if something is broken, you still have your old image!) -start the storage thread by evaluating: server storage: ImageStorage new -save the current image: server storage snapshot A glossary of linguistic expressions seem to be an interesting project to use SmallWiki for. What you could do is to write a visitor rendering the content of a page as plain-text. Then you add an action to provide the output of that page as a download. So finally you have a link on every-page, where you are be able to download those generated files ... There is no such a thing yet, but I am doing the documentation using a latex-visitor, what is probably very similar to your needs. Although I don't use the latex-visitor yet to generate files from within SmallWiki-Pages, but instead I parse and generate the documentation using the class- and method-comments of my code. However it is simple to add an action to use that visitor to export wiki-pages from within SmallWiki, if you like I can come up with an (almost no lines-of-code) example ... Sure, you can pass around SmallWiki-Images like any other Smalltalk image, run it on different platforms, etc. Thanks, I am glad to hear that ... Cheers, Lukas -- Lukas Renggli http://renggli.freezope.org