gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.seaside

PlotKit in Gemstone

hi, I forgot to report this, it's a very stupid thing, but I think it's 
worth fixing.

When I imported PlotKit into Gemstone (to use with Seaside, of course) I 
had a small problem:

PKScriptLibrary >> #mochiKitJs has a very long String, apparently longer 
that what's supported for literals in Gemstone. The very simple solution 
for me was to cut the string in two, adding '+' roughly inthe middle.

In my case I cut it just before the line rading:

MochiKit.Base.update(MochiKit.Async.{evalJSONRequest:function(){

(it's the only appearance of evalJSONRequest:function in the code.

    I think it'll be a great idea to fix this in the repository, and 
with it, PlotKit can be directly loaded from squeaksource into Gemstone.

    otherwise dale offered to host the project in Gemstone Monticello 
server, but I think it doesn't make any sense to replicate it.

    richie

PS: I haven't loaded all SeaChart, juts PlotKit, PlotKitLibrary and 
SeaChart. Examples seem to work :)

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Philippe Marschall | 21 Nov 19:20

Re: PlotKit in Gemstone

2008/11/21 Gerardo Richarte <gera <at> corest.com>:
> hi, I forgot to report this, it's a very stupid thing, but I think it's
> worth fixing.
>
> When I imported PlotKit into Gemstone (to use with Seaside, of course) I had
> a small problem:
>
> PKScriptLibrary >> #mochiKitJs has a very long String, apparently longer
> that what's supported for literals in Gemstone. The very simple solution for
> me was to cut the string in two, adding '+' roughly inthe middle.
>
> In my case I cut it just before the line rading:
>
> MochiKit.Base.update(MochiKit.Async.{evalJSONRequest:function(){
>
> (it's the only appearance of evalJSONRequest:function in the code.
>
>   I think it'll be a great idea to fix this in the repository, and with it,
> PlotKit can be directly loaded from squeaksource into Gemstone.

Go ahead and do it then. The repository has public write access for a
reason  It might be best to replace it with the latest packed
version and see if it fits into GemStone. If it doesn't a lazy
accessor would be nice.

Note however that the usual disclaimer applies that the backing
JavaScript library has seen no updates in 2.5 years.

Cheers
Philippe

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