Hi, What do you mean by the old version of Spotter?
Just in case: you should know that Spotter is made to be extensible. This means that if you want to play with your own way of searching for objects, you can just do it. Let me know if you to try and if you need help in this direction. Cheers, Doru On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Paul DeBruicker <pdebr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there any way to change back to the old version of Spotter in Pharo 4? > > > > > > Nicolai Hess wrote > > 2015-06-10 16:24 GMT+02:00 Paul DeBruicker < > > > pdebruic@ > > > >: > > > >> So by default the search tool is only guaranteed to return an exact term > >> match if there are only less than 5 non-exact match results? > >> > >> > > Yes > > > > > > > > > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Nicolai Hess wrote > >> > 2015-06-10 7:39 GMT+02:00 Paul DeBruicker < > >> > >> > pdebruic@ > >> > >> > >: > >> > > >> >> when I hit shift+enter and type 'accept' I get things that are not > >> >> #accept, e.g. #accept: and AbstractAcceptor. > >> >> > >> >> If I add a space after accept it doesn't help. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> What do I not understand? > >> >> > >> > > >> > the result list is not sorted and the result list is built by all > >> methods > >> > having the query string as part > >> > of its selector name. > >> > > >> > Yes this can be improved and it is not difficult, for example you can > >> add > >> > this method to > >> > > >> > GTFilterImplementor>>applyFilterWithQuery > >> > super applyFilterWithQuery. > >> > items sort: [ :a :b | (self itemFilterNameFor: a) size < (self > >> > itemFilterNameFor: b) size ] > >> > > >> > this will sort the result list by the size of the selector name. So, > if > >> > there is a perfect match, > >> > it will be listed first. > >> > (BUT only in the implementors category if you "dive-in", not in the > >> > 5-elements-result-preview-list). > >> > > >> > Maybe there is a better way without sorting. (We can modify > >> > applyFilterWithQuery for the implementors > >> > filter, to put perfect matches at the begining of the list). > >> > > >> > But all this is not easy to discover. Spotter classes make some heavy > >> use > >> > of delegation, many operations > >> > are split and delgated to subclasses (GOOD!) > >> > many classes aren't documented (BAD!) and this makes it really > >> difficult > >> > to > >> > catch how all this is supposed to work together. > >> > > >> > > >> > nicolai > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Thanks > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> Paul > >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> View this message in context: > >> > http://forum.world.st/Using-GTSpotter-how-do-I-find-an-implementor-of-accept-tp4831299p4831428.html > >> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/Using-GTSpotter-how-do-I-find-an-implementor-of-accept-tp4831299p4831506.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"
