Hi Pharo friends, TL;DR: How should one open a presenter on a user-specified model? Is SpPresenterWithModel>>setAnnouncingObject: missing a call to modelChanged?
The long version: I am trying to write a UI for my threat modeling tool using Spec in Pharo 8. I had trouble getting my first presenter to show me my model. My current VERY WIP tiny code is available from g...@github.com:octotrike/groundhog.git, on branch pharo-sp-presenter-question. I wanted to do something like this (paraphrased from the class comment for my BLFunctionPresenter class): BLFunctionPresenter new model: aModel; openWithSpec Unfortunately, the UI continued to show the default announcingObject (nil), even though announcingObject had changed as expected. The examples I found showed either - a containing presenter getting an event, changing instance variables on a presenter it contains, and sending modelChanged, or - a presenter hard coded to show a model that is globally accessible. In the end, I added self modelChanged to the end of SpPresenterWithModel>>setAnnouncingObject:. It seemed like this method changed announcingObject and registered this presenter to receive modelChanged every time changes to the announcingObject occurred. However, in cases like the one I am describing, the change is replacement of the entire announcingObject, so no announcingObject sends modelChanged. Was/is this a bug in Spec? Or is there something else I should be doing to open a Spec UI on a model that is neither global nor specified by a parent presenter? Bren
