Useful code snippet! Thanks! Alexandre
> On Jan 4, 2016, at 10:47 PM, Peter Uhnák <i.uh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > a) Spec > > ~~~~~~~~~~~ > tm := TextModel new. > tm autoAccept: true. "otherwise you would have to pres ctrl+s to 'save' the > result in memory" > tm openWithSpec. "this will open text window > > "and then you can do" > tm text. "retrieve current text from the TextModel (returns an instance of > Text)" > tm text: 'new content' "set a new content" > ~~~~~~~~~~ > > b) Workspace > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > w := Workspace new. > w open. > > w contents. "note that you must ctrl+s the content in the workspace for it to > appear here (there's a yellow triangle in top right corner if the content is > not saved" > w contents: '123'. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Workspace can also be saved/loaded to disk. > > c) Playground > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > (page := GTPlayPage new) > saveContent: 'initial content'. > (playground := GTPlayground new) > openOn: page. > > page content. "retrieve the content; just like with Workspace you must ctrl+s > when editing in the Playground itself" > > "updating is a bit more complex, but it still seems to work" > page saveContent: 'new content'. > playground update. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Peter > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote: > > > On 04 Jan 2016, at 07:34, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > >> On Jan 4, 2016, at 3:21 AM, Andy Burnett <andy.burn...@knowinnovation.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >> I often find that I need to do simple manipulations to passages of text, > >> e.g. remove all carriage returns, or extract email addresses etc. > >> > >> Pasting the text into a Playground doesn't work because there is always an > >> apostrophe, or line break or... etc. and the playground complains. > >> > >> Is there a way to tell a Playground to just ignore the text, and give me a > >> handle to its contents, so that I can then do something like > >> > >> playgroundId contents splitOn:Character space. > >> > >> Alternatively, is there another object that would be more appropriate? > >> Playground would be really useful just because it is in the menu, and > >> always available. > > > > The Playground does not yet allow you to do that. But, you can use the > > Clipboard: > > > > Clipboard clipboardText splitOn:Character space. > > I do this a lot: using #clipboardText is a way to get to a copied string > without any problems. > > You can also do a Print It on 'Clipboard clipboardText asString' which will > render the string using the Pharo quoting conventions. > > > Cheers, > > Doru > > > >> Cheers > >> Andy > > > > -- > > www.tudorgirba.com > > www.feenk.com > > > > "Value is always contextual." > > > -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
