The Glamorous Toolkit (GT)

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.

How to load

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.

Details

GT Documenter

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:

GT Transcript

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: