Morphic

The intended “searchQuick” (sQuick) is an application to enable a user to search a set of books or texts, like an encyclopedia, or some other topical book collection offline built in the open source platform Pharo 4.0.

Bringing up to the rear of the summers, the project was brought to a penultimate stage by achieving the following tasks:

• Handling empty string searches by raising error pop ups.

  searchButtonClicked
  searchBar accept .
  (myString isEmptyOrNil  ) 
  ifTrue: [self errorPopUp ] 
  ifFalse: [ 
       myString := searchBar getText asString .
            self printSearchResults
                 ] .

• Adding Help, About and Feedback sections to give an authentic application look and required details to an interested developer.

• Inserting ScrollPane for BrowseFile list menu

  browseScroll := ScrollPane new.
  browseScroll scroller addMorph: browse.

• Truncating BrowseFile list menu file titles to have their extent within the #MenuMorph: boundary

  title := anObject truncateWithElipsisTo: 25. 

• Removal of OK/CANCEL buttons from the Search results accordion widget

  dialog buttons: {}.

• Implementation of a Search Bar for searching via Search results accordion widget.

• Categorizing methods as: accessing, initialization, submorphs–add/remove etc.

• Removal of unwanted/redundant/commented code lines i.e. scrubbing dead-code.

UPCOMING: Wrap Up.

The intended “searchQuick” (sQuick) is an application to enable a user to search a set of books or texts, like an encyclopedia, or some other topical book collection offline built in the open source platform Pharo 4.0.

After the chief tasks of search functionality and automated build were done with, the next undertaking included working on finer details and embellishments.

• Embedding Jenkins automated build status icon in GitHub markdown file
• Relative widget re-sizing by using ‘World extent x‘ and ‘World extent y‘ co-ordinates instead of hard coded co-ordinates
• Modifying the Accordion Widget by addition of ‘Search Bar‘ at the top
• Checking for duplicates in the ‘Browse Files‘ menu, thus reducing the CPU consumption
• Equalizing the sizes of all the windows to bring uniformity
• Addition of ‘Scroll Pane‘ in accordion search result display list
• Multi-line search result display by extending the Expander Title Morph and use of new line character in labels (otherwise not supported by default)
• Truncating file content to first n characters for neater look in Expander Title

Latest Screenshot of Accordion Widget:

UPCOMING:

• Removal of OK & CANCEL buttons (present by default in Pluggable Dialog Window) from Accordion Widget
• Implementing of Search via the result window as well
• Relative re-sizing of background images (Image Morphs)

The intended “searchQuick” (sQuick) is an application to enable a user to search a set of books or texts, like an encyclopedia, or some other topical book collection offline built in the open source platform Pharo 4.0.

The main task achieved was putting up the application up on Continuous Integration, Inria for automated build. It was indeed a beneficial idea as it helped me keep a check on the builds and work on issues.
Being a newbie, this work was cumbersome initially but with the help of my mentors and the #pharo community, I was able to accomplish it. To assist fellow Pharo-ers, I have compiled all the information regarding CI Automated Build for yout Pharo Application and published the same on my blog-spot. Kindly go through it for a complete understanding 🙂

Other tasks completed as of now include:

• Putting up the project for automated build on https://ci.inria.fr/
• Successful ‘stable’ and ‘development’ version builds
• Accessing resource folder via MCGitHubRepository, Removal of manual download option
• By default full screen system window open
• Removing redundant code by creating open argument methods
• Abolishment of hard-coded font family and font point size
• Categorization of methods & classes
• GUI Embellishment with background colors, borders etc.

Upcoming: 

• Dynamic widget re-sizing
• Multi-line search result title
• Putting up Help and About sections
• Removal of old configurations

The intended “searchQuick” (sQuick) is an application to enable a user to search a set of books or texts, like an encyclopedia, or some other topical book collection offline built in the open source platform Pharo 4.0.

The intended “searchQuick” (sQuick) is an application to enable a user to search a set of books or texts, like an encyclopedia, or some other topical book collection offline built in the open source platform Pharo 4.0.

After indexing the content and the next task that was covered was searching for the user input string. The #queryString: does a fantastic job as of now.
The search results were printed in a scroll-able pane by iterating through a loop so as to cover each and every existence of the desired string. The search results window also enables the user to view the content of the chosen file.

Search Results Display

Acting on the suggestion of my mentor, I have also loaded the Pharo image with text versions of large books (Thank You Project Gutenberg 🙂 )  to test the working of the search function.

UPCOMING

• GUI Modification
• Integrated Exhaustive Testing
• Addition of help/tutorial

PS: The GUI of the application is under constant evolvement, Kindly ignore the poorly structured window 😛

Stay tuned for more…
Post any queries , will be happy to help 🙂

The intended “searchQuick” (sQuick) is an application to enable a user to search a set of books or texts, like an encyclopedia, or some other topical book collection offline built in the open source platform Pharo 4.0.

After building various mock-ups for a user friendly graphical interface for the application, the rudimentary features which would be present in the first release were finalized.

The chief features would include :

• Search for word(s)
• Browse files in the current image
• Help or Tutorial
• About section
• Feedback or Suggestion Aid
• Explore the code ( Cardinally Open Source 😉 )

LATEST MOCK UP OF GUI FOR sQuick

At this moment, the most viable options available (apart from the use of GTSpotter, Rubric or Bloc suggested by developers on the forum and #pharo IRC) include:

• The use of Spec to build the UI which provides a comparatively easier option to implement Button Click Actions, User Input Search String Retrieval etc. But the graphical interface designed by placing the widgets is not a very fancy one and dependent on the current theme of the image.
• The Morphic GUI gives the application a very pretty look in comparison, however the user input search string retrieval method is not a straight-forward one and is under construction.

After considering various pros and cons, the suitable alternative is considered to be the one made with Morph as it gives a refreshing look to the application.

UPCOMING:

• Completion of GUI development
• Commencement of Index build

Stay tuned for more…
Post any queries , will be happy to help 🙂