No, this is not in initializePresenter, since this is called only once, when the window is opened. Instead, you need to do this every time that the widget is changed. So in your code where you change the widget to a new one, I guess this is changeBody: , you need to configure this new widget.
-- Does this mail seem too brief? Sorry for that, I don’t mean to be rude! Please see http://emailcharter.org . Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD and RyCh labs - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > On Jul 26, 2016, at 16:08, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas > <offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote: > > Thanks Johan for your quick answer. > > Your hypothesis is right and the contents of (4) are cleaned by a new widget > when I click at the tree (2). I'm looking at my code and documentation, but I > can't find properly how to implement your recommendation. I imagine is > somewhere in initializePresenter, but I can't find the place... sorry I would > like to be more helpful on getting help... :-/. > > Any hint of how this code should look like and where it goes? "body > whenTextChanged: aBlock" on initializePresenter seems doing nothing. > > Cheers, > > Offray > > > On 26/07/16 11:19, Johan Fabry wrote: >> I think the problem is that when you click on an item in the tree (2), the >> contents of (4) is changed to a new widget. As a result the configuration >> that you did in initializePresenter is lost. What you should do is when you >> change the contents of (4) also configure this new widget with a >> whenTextChanged: block. I think that will solve your problem. >> >> -- >> Does this mail seem too brief? Sorry for that, I don’t mean to be rude! >> Please see http://emailcharter.org . >> >> Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry >> PLEIAD and RyCh labs - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of >> Chile >> >>> On Jul 25, 2016, at 18:12, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas >>> <offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm migrating my grafoscopio interface from I'm trying to capture some >>> changes in a text morph that is part of a Spec interface. The interface is >>> split in 4 parts, as you can see at [a]: (1) a main menu, (2) a tree, (3) a >>> node header input text and (4) a text morph. When you click any node on the >>> tree (2) the name of the node, called the header is shown in (3) and the >>> node contents, called the body are shown at (4). If you made a change in >>> the header (pressing enter) it's reflected back to the main tree. And the >>> node's body is changed for a text morph [b] or a and embedded playground >>> [c] according to tags in the node. So the reading part is working and I >>> have some partial support for persistence, at least for node headers. >>> >>> [a] https://offray.withknown.com/2016/grafoscopio-notebook-interface >>> [b] https://offray.withknown.com/2016/grafoscopio-text-node >>> [c] https://offray.withknown.com/2016/grafoscopio-code-node >>> >>> Now I would like to extend the persistence for node's body content, so when >>> any changes happens in the (4) panel, be it a text panel or a playground, >>> it is stored in a similar way to what is happening with node headers and >>> the (3) panel, but I'm unsuccessful trying to capture those changes. >>> >>> My initializeWidgets and initializePresenter are implemented this way: >>> >>> ================= >>> >>> GrafoscopioNotebook>>initializeWidgets >>> >>> windowMainMenu := self newWindowMainMenu. >>> tree := TreeModel new. >>> body := self newText. >>> header := self newTextInput. >>> >>> body disable. >>> body text: '<-- Select a node in the left panel'. >>> >>> tree >>> childrenBlock: [:node | node children]; >>> displayBlock: [:node | node title ]. >>> >>> ================= >>> >>> initializePresenter >>> >>> tree whenSelectedItemsChanged: [ :arg | >>> arg isEmpty ifFalse: [self changeBody: arg ]]. >>> header whenTextChanged: [ :arg | >>> Transcript show: arg. >>> (tree selectedItem content header) = arg >>> ifFalse: [ >>> (tree selectedItem) content header: arg. >>> tree roots: tree roots]]. >>> body whenTextIsAccepted: [ :arg | >>> Transcript show: arg >>> ] >>> >>> ================= >>> >>> I'm capturing properly the changes in text with whenTextChanged on the >>> header but using the same message on body or whenTextIsAccepted doesn't >>> produce any change on the trascript, and of course I can't update the any >>> tree/node contents properly. >>> >>> Any advice on how to solve this will be greatly appreciated. If can happen >>> soon in this week even better, because we could show this to our >>> hackathon/workshop attendees. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Offray >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > >
