GT is the moldable IDE for Pharo.
The current repository embodies the second generation of GT that is based on the Bloc project and it is comprised of a set of distinct tools. Currently these are:
- Documenter: a tool for showing live documentation inside Pharo. It is based on Pillar and on the moldable text editor.
- Transcript: a rethinking of the classic Transcript taking advantage of the moldable text editor from Bloc.
- Visualizer: a set of visualization engines on top of Bloc.
- Examples: a framework for example-driven development in Pharo.
You can load the whole code in Pharo 6.1 using the following snippet:
Metacello new
baseline: 'GToolkit';
repository: 'github://feenkcom/gtoolkit/src';
load.
Alternatively, you can also load each individual tools separately using the corresponding baselines.
The Documenter offers live rendering of Pillar documents.
For example, Documenter can embed pictures right in place:
And it can even embed live code that can be previewed in place:
Transcript offers a rich and interactable text interface for displaying live information coming from a system.
The API is backward compatible with the existing transcript. To enable the new features, we introduced a builder. For example, transcript nextPutAll: 'something' becomes transcript next putAll: 'something', and after next we can add multiple attributes that we want to affect the following insertion of a text. The API can be seen in the following picture:
To get an idea of how this tool can be useful, take a look at the following video showing the visual logging of a Bloc animation:
