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				|  |  | -Smalltalk current createPackage: 'Documentation'!
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				|  |  | -Object subclass: #ChapterSelectionAnnouncement
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				|  |  | -	instanceVariableNames: 'id'
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				|  |  | -	package: 'Documentation'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!ChapterSelectionAnnouncement methodsFor: 'accessing'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -id
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				|  |  | -	^id
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -id: aString
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				|  |  | -	id := aString
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -Object subclass: #ClassSelectionAnnouncement
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				|  |  | -	instanceVariableNames: 'theClass'
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				|  |  | -	package: 'Documentation'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!ClassSelectionAnnouncement methodsFor: 'accessing'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -theClass
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				|  |  | -	^theClass
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -theClass: aClass
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				|  |  | -	theClass := aClass
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!ClassSelectionAnnouncement class methodsFor: 'instance creation'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -on: aClass
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				|  |  | -	^self new
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				|  |  | -		theClass: aClass;
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				|  |  | -		yourself
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -Widget subclass: #DocChapter
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				|  |  | -	instanceVariableNames: 'title contents parent level'
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				|  |  | -	package: 'Documentation'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!DocChapter methodsFor: 'accessing'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -announcer
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				|  |  | -	^DocumentationBuilder current announcer
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -chapters
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				|  |  | -	"A doc chapter can contain sub chapters"
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				|  |  | -	^#()
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -contents
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				|  |  | -	^contents ifNil: ['']
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -contents: aString
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				|  |  | -	contents := aString
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -cssClass
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				|  |  | -	^'doc_chapter'
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -htmlContents
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				|  |  | -	^(Showdown at: #converter) new makeHtml: self contents
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -id
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				|  |  | -	"The id is used in url fragments. 
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				|  |  | -	It must be unique amoung all chapters"
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				|  |  | -	^self title replace: ' ' with: '-'
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -level
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				|  |  | -	^self parent ifNil: [1] ifNotNil: [self parent level +1]
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -level: anInteger
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				|  |  | -	level := anInteger
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -parent
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				|  |  | -	^parent
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -parent: aChapter
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				|  |  | -	parent := aChapter
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -title
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				|  |  | -	^title ifNil: ['']
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -title: aString
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				|  |  | -	title := aString
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!DocChapter methodsFor: 'actions'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -displayChapter: aChapter
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				|  |  | -	DocumentationBuilder current widget displayChapter: aChapter
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -selectChapter: aChapter
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				|  |  | -	document location hash: aChapter id
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -selectClass: aClass
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				|  |  | -	DocumentationBuilder current announcer announce: (ClassSelectionAnnouncement on: aClass)
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!DocChapter methodsFor: 'initialization'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -initialize
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				|  |  | -	super initialize.
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				|  |  | -	self subscribe
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!DocChapter methodsFor: 'rendering'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -renderDocOn: html
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				|  |  | -	| div |
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				|  |  | -	html h1 with: self title.
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				|  |  | -	self renderNavigationOn: html.
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				|  |  | -	div := html div class: 'contents'.
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				|  |  | -	div asJQuery html: self htmlContents
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -renderLinksOn: html
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				|  |  | -	html ul 
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				|  |  | -		class: 'links';
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				|  |  | -		with: [
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				|  |  | -			self chapters do: [:each |
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				|  |  | -				html li with: [
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				|  |  | -					html a
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				|  |  | -						with: each title;
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				|  |  | -						onClick: [self selectChapter: each]]]]
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -renderNavigationOn: html
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				|  |  | -	self parent ifNotNil: [
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				|  |  | -		html div 
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				|  |  | -			class: 'navigation'; with: [
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				|  |  | -				html a
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				|  |  | -					with: '← back to ', self parent title;
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				|  |  | -					onClick: [self selectChapter: self parent]]]
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -renderOn: html
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				|  |  | -	html div 
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				|  |  | -		class: self cssClass;
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				|  |  | -		with: [
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				|  |  | -			self renderDocOn: html.
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				|  |  | -			self renderLinksOn: html]
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!DocChapter methodsFor: 'subscriptions'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -subscribe
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				|  |  | -	self announcer on: ChapterSelectionAnnouncement do: [:ann |
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				|  |  | -		ann id = self id ifTrue: [self displayChapter: self]]
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -DocChapter subclass: #ClassDocChapter
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				|  |  | -	instanceVariableNames: 'theClass'
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				|  |  | -	package: 'Documentation'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!ClassDocChapter methodsFor: 'accessing'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -contents
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				|  |  | -	^self theClass comment isEmpty
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				|  |  | -		ifTrue: [self theClass name, ' is not documented yet.']
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				|  |  | -		ifFalse: [self theClass comment]
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -cssClass
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				|  |  | -	^'doc_class ', super cssClass
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -initializeWithClass: aClass
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				|  |  | -	theClass := aClass
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -theClass
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				|  |  | -	^theClass
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -title
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				|  |  | -	^self theClass name
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!ClassDocChapter methodsFor: 'rendering'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -renderLinksOn: html
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				|  |  | -	html ul 
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				|  |  | -		class: 'links';
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				|  |  | -		with: [
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				|  |  | -			html li with: [html a
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				|  |  | -				with: 'Browse this class';
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				|  |  | -				onClick: [Browser openOn: self theClass]]]
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!ClassDocChapter methodsFor: 'subscriptions'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -subscribe
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				|  |  | -	super subscribe.
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				|  |  | -	self announcer 
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				|  |  | -		on: ClassSelectionAnnouncement do: [:ann |
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				|  |  | -			ann theClass = self theClass ifTrue: [
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				|  |  | -				self selectChapter: self]]
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!ClassDocChapter class methodsFor: 'accessing'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -on: aClass
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				|  |  | -	^self basicNew
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				|  |  | -		initializeWithClass: aClass;
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				|  |  | -		initialize;
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				|  |  | -		yourself
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -DocChapter subclass: #ClassesIndexChapter
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				|  |  | -	instanceVariableNames: ''
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				|  |  | -	package: 'Documentation'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!ClassesIndexChapter methodsFor: 'accessing'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -alphabet
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				|  |  | -	^'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -cssClass
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				|  |  | -	^'index_doc ', super cssClass
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -title
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				|  |  | -	^'Smalltalk classes by index'
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!ClassesIndexChapter methodsFor: 'rendering'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -renderDocOn: html
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				|  |  | -	html h1 with: self title.
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				|  |  | -	self alphabet do: [:letter || classes |
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				|  |  | -		classes := Smalltalk current classes select: [:each | each name first = letter].
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				|  |  | -		classes ifNotEmpty: [html h2 with: letter].
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				|  |  | -		html ul with: [
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				|  |  | -			(classes sorted: [:a :b | a name < b name]) 
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				|  |  | -				do: [:each |
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				|  |  | -					html li with: [html a 
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				|  |  | -						with: each name;
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				|  |  | -						onClick: [self selectClass: each]]]]]
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -DocChapter subclass: #PackageDocChapter
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				|  |  | -	instanceVariableNames: 'package chapters'
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				|  |  | -	package: 'Documentation'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!PackageDocChapter methodsFor: 'accessing'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -chapters
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				|  |  | -	^chapters
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -contents
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				|  |  | -	^'Classes in package ', self package name, ':'
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -package
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				|  |  | -	^package
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -title
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				|  |  | -	^'Package ', self package name
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!PackageDocChapter methodsFor: 'initialization'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -initializeWithPackage: aPackage
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				|  |  | -	package := aPackage.
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				|  |  | -	chapters := (aPackage classes sorted: [:a :b | a name < b name]) collect: [:each |
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				|  |  | -		(ClassDocChapter on: each)
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				|  |  | -			parent: self;
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				|  |  | -			yourself]
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!PackageDocChapter class methodsFor: 'instance creation'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -on: aPackage
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				|  |  | -	^self basicNew
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				|  |  | -		initializeWithPackage: aPackage;
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				|  |  | -		initialize;
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				|  |  | -		yourself
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -DocChapter subclass: #TutorialsChapter
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				|  |  | -	instanceVariableNames: ''
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				|  |  | -	package: 'Documentation'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!TutorialsChapter methodsFor: 'accessing'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -contents
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				|  |  | -	^'You can find a list of [Tutorials](https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/wiki/Tutorials) on the [Github wiki](https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/wiki). If you are new to Smalltalk, you can also learn Amber online with [ProfStef](http://www.amber-lang.net/learn.html).'
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -title
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				|  |  | -	^'Tutorials'
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -Object subclass: #DocumentationBuilder
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				|  |  | -	instanceVariableNames: 'chapters announcer widget'
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				|  |  | -	package: 'Documentation'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!DocumentationBuilder methodsFor: 'accessing'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -announcer
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				|  |  | -	^announcer ifNil: [announcer := Announcer new]
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -chapters
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				|  |  | -	^chapters ifNil: [chapters := self buildChapters]
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -widget
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				|  |  | -	^widget ifNil: [widget := DocumentationWidget on: self]
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!DocumentationBuilder methodsFor: 'building'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -build
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				|  |  | -	self buildOnJQuery: ('body' asJQuery)
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -buildChapters
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				|  |  | -	^((self class methodDictionary values sorted: [:a :b | a selector < b selector])
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				|  |  | -		select: [:each | each category = 'chapters'])
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				|  |  | -		collect: [:each | self perform: each selector]
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -buildOn: aCanvas
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				|  |  | -	aCanvas with: self widget.
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				|  |  | -	self 
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				|  |  | -		checkHashChange;
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				|  |  | -		checkHash
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -buildOnJQuery: aJQuery
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				|  |  | -	self buildOn: (HTMLCanvas onJQuery: aJQuery)
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!DocumentationBuilder methodsFor: 'chapters'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -ch1introduction
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				|  |  | -	^DocChapter new
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				|  |  | -		title: 'Introduction';
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				|  |  | -		contents: '
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -##Amber Smalltalk in a nutshell
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -Amber is an implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language. It is designed to make client-side web development **faster, easier and more fun** as it allows developers to write HTML5 applications in a live Smalltalk environment!!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -Amber is written in itself, including the IDE and the compiler and it runs **directly inside your browser**. The IDE is fairly complete with a class browser, workspace, transcript, unit test runner, object inspectors, cross reference tools and even a debugger.
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -Noteworthy features:
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -- Amber is semantically and syntactically very close to [Pharo Smalltalk](http://www.pharo-project.org). Pharo is considered the reference implementation.
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				|  |  | -- Amber **seamlessly interacts with JavaScript** and can use its full eco system of libraries without any glue code needed.
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				|  |  | -- Amber **has no dependencies** and can be used in any JavaScript runtime, not only inside browsers. An important example is [Node.js](http://nodejs.org).
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				|  |  | -- Amber is a live Smalltalk that **compiles incrementally into efficient JavaScript** often mapping one-to-one with JavaScript equivalents.
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				|  |  | -- Amber has a **Seaside influenced canvas library** to dynamically generate HTML.
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -## Why Amber?
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -- JavaScript is quite a broken language with lots of traps and odd quirks. It is the assembler of the Internet which is cool, but we don''t want to write in it.
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				|  |  | -- Amber is a language and environment built for the web. With Amber, client-side web development finally gets the power and productivity that exists in other Smalltalk dialects.
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				|  |  | -- Smalltalk has a simple class model with a lightweight syntax for closures, it is in many ways a perfect match for the Good Parts of JavaScript. 
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				|  |  | -  Smalltalk stands head and shoulders above most other languages for clarity, conciseness, and human-friendliness.
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				|  |  | -  As a language, it is immensely clean and mature, both syntactically and semantically. It is a pure OO language, with objects all the way down.
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				|  |  | -- Having a true live & incremental development environment where you can build your application interactively in the browser is unbeatable.
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -## Disclaimer
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -This documentation doesn''t aim to teach Smalltalk. 
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				|  |  | -Knowledge of Smalltalk is needed to understand the topics covered in this documentation. 
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				|  |  | -If you want to learn the Smalltalk language, you can read the excellent [Pharo By Example](http://www.pharobyexample.org) book.
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				|  |  | -'
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				|  |  | -ch2differencesWithOtherSmalltalks
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				|  |  | -	^DocChapter new
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				|  |  | -		title: 'Differences with other Smalltalks';
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				|  |  | -		contents: '
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				|  |  | -Amber has some differences with other Smalltalk implementations. This makes porting code a non-trivial thing, but still quite manageable.
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				|  |  | -Because it maps Smalltalk constructs one-to-one with the JavaScript equivalent, including Smalltalk classes to JavaScript constructors, the core class library is simplified compared to Pharo Smalltalk.
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				|  |  | -And since we want Amber to be useful in building lean browser apps we can''t let it bloat too much.
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -But apart from missing things other Smalltalks may have, there are also things that are plain different:
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -- The collection class hierarchy is much simpler compared to most Smalltalk implementations. In part this is because we want to map reasonably well with JavaScript counter parts.
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				|  |  | -- As of today, there is no SortedCollection. The size of arrays is dynamic, and they behave like an ordered collection. They can also be sorted with the `#sort*` methods.
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				|  |  | -- The `Date` class behaves like the `Date` and `TimeStamp` classes in Pharo Smalltalk. Therefore both `Date today` and `Date now` are valid in Amber.
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				|  |  | -- Amber does not have class Character, but `String` does implement some of Character behavior so a single character String can work as a Character.
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				|  |  | -- Amber does support **class instance variables**, but not class variables.
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				|  |  | -- Amber only has global classes and packages, but not arbitrary objects. Use classes instead like `Smalltalk current` instead of `Smalltalk` etc.
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				|  |  | -- Amber does not support pool dictionaries.
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				|  |  | -- Amber uses **< ...javascript code... >** to inline JavaScript code and does not have pragmas.
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				|  |  | -- Amber does not have class categories. The left side in the browser lists real Packages, but they feel much the same.
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -ch3GettingStarted
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				|  |  | -	^DocChapter new
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				|  |  | -		title: 'Getting started';
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				|  |  | -		contents: '
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				|  |  | -To get started hacking in Amber you can basically take three routes, independent of your platform:
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -1. Just **try it out directly** at [www.amber-lang.net](http://www.amber-lang.net) - click the **Class browser** button there. But you will **not be able to save any code you write**!! 
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				|  |  | -    Still, it works fine for looking at the IDE and playing around. Just **don''t press F5/reload** - it will lose any code you have written.
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				|  |  | -2. Download an Amber zip-ball, install [Nodejs](http://www.nodejs.org), fire up the Amber server and then open Amber from localhost - then you **can save code**. Detailed instructions are below!!
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				|  |  | -3. Same as above but install git first and get a proper clone from [http://github.com/NicolasPetton/amber](http://github.com/NicolasPetton/amber) instead of a zip/tar-ball. 
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				|  |  | -    If you want to **contribute to Amber itself** this is really what you want to do. In fact, in most cases this is what you want to do. It requires installing git first, but it is quite simple - although we leave this bit as an "exercise to the reader" :)
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				|  |  | -## Downloading Amber
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				|  |  | -Currently you can download in zip or tar-ball format, either cutting edge or a release. [Downloads are available here](https://github.com/NicolasPetton/amber/archives/amber). 
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -Unpack wherever you like, but I would rename the directory that is unpacked to something slightly shorter - like say "amber". :)
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				|  |  | -And yes, at this point you can double click the index.html file in the amber directory to get the IDE up, but again, **you will not be able to save code**. So please continue below :)
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -## Installing Node.js
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				|  |  | -[Node](http://www.nodejs.org) (for short) is simply the V8 Javascript VM from Google (used in Chrome) hooked together with some hard core C-libraries for doing "evented I/O".
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				|  |  | -Basically it''s JavaScript for the server - on asynch steroids. Amber runs fine in Node and we use it for several Amber tools, like amberc (the command line Amber compiler) or the Amber server (see below). 
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				|  |  | -There are also several Amber-Node examples to look at if you want to play with running Amber programs server side. **In short - you really want to install Nodejs. :)**
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -- Installing Node on Linux can be done using your package tool of choice (`apt-get install nodejs` for example) or any other way described at [the download page](http://nodejs.org/#download).
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				|  |  | -- Installing Node on MacOS or Windows is probably done best by using the [installers available at Nodejs.org](http://nodejs.org/#download).
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -## Starting Amber server
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				|  |  | -Nicolas has written a minimal webDAV server that is the easiest way to get up and running Amber with the ability to save code. This little server is written in... Amber!! 
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				|  |  | -And it runs on top of Node. So to start it up serving your brand new directory tree of sweet Amber you do:
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -	cd amber	(or whatever you called the directory you unpackaged)
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				|  |  | -	./bin/server	(in windows you type `node server\server.js` instead)
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -It should say it is listening on port 4000. If it does, hooray!! That means both Node and Amber are good. In Windows you might get a question about opening that port in the local firewall - yep, do it!!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -## Firing up Amber
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				|  |  | -The Amber IDE is written in... Amber. It uses [jQuery](http://jquery.com) and runs right in your browser as a ... well, a web page. 
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				|  |  | -We could open it up just using a file url - but the reason we performed the previous steps is so that we can load the IDE web page from a server that can handle PUTs (webDAV) of source code. 
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				|  |  | -According to web security Amber can only do PUT back to the same server it was loaded from. Thus we instead want to open it [through our little server now listening on port 4000](http://localhost:4000/index.html).
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				|  |  | -Clicking that link and then pressing the **Class browser** should get your Amber IDE running with the ability to commit modified packages locally.
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -To verify that you can indeed commit now - just select a Package in the browser, like say "Examples" and press the **Commit** button below. **If all goes well nothing happens :)**. 
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				|  |  | -So in order to really know if it worked we can check the modified date on the files **amber/st/Examples.st**, **amber/js/Examples.js** and **amber/js/Examples.deploy.js** - they should be brand new.
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -NOTE: We can use any webDAV server and Apache2 has been used earlier and works fine. But the Amber server is smaller and simpler to start.
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -ch4Tutorials
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				|  |  | -	^TutorialsChapter new
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -ch5Index
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				|  |  | -	^ClassesIndexChapter new
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -ch6KernelObjects
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				|  |  | -	^PackageDocChapter on: (Package named: 'Kernel-Objects')
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -ch7KernelClasses
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				|  |  | -	^PackageDocChapter on: (Package named: 'Kernel-Classes')
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -ch8KernelCollection
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				|  |  | -	^PackageDocChapter on: (Package named: 'Kernel-Collections')
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -ch9KernelMethods
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				|  |  | -	^PackageDocChapter on: (Package named: 'Kernel-Methods')
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!DocumentationBuilder methodsFor: 'routing'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -checkHash
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				|  |  | -	| hash presentation |
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				|  |  | -	hash := document location hash  replace: '^#' with: ''.
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				|  |  | -	self announcer announce: (ChapterSelectionAnnouncement new 
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				|  |  | -		id: hash; 
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				|  |  | -		yourself)
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -checkHashChange
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				|  |  | -	(window jQuery: window) bind: 'hashchange' do: [self checkHash]
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!DocumentationBuilder methodsFor: 'updating'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -update
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				|  |  | -	chapters := nil.
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				|  |  | -	announcer := nil.
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				|  |  | -	widget := nil.
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				|  |  | -	(window jQuery: '.documentation') remove.
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				|  |  | -	self build
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -DocumentationBuilder class instanceVariableNames: 'current'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!DocumentationBuilder class methodsFor: 'accessing'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -current
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				|  |  | -	^current ifNil: [current := self new]
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!DocumentationBuilder class methodsFor: 'initialization'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -initialize
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				|  |  | -	self current build
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -Widget subclass: #DocumentationWidget
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				|  |  | -	instanceVariableNames: 'builder selectedChapter chapterDiv'
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				|  |  | -	package: 'Documentation'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!DocumentationWidget methodsFor: 'accessing'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -builder
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				|  |  | -	^builder
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -builder: aDocumentationBuilder
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				|  |  | -	builder := aDocumentationBuilder
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -chapters
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				|  |  | -	^self builder chapters
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -selectedChapter
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				|  |  | -	^selectedChapter ifNil: [selectedChapter := self chapters first]
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -selectedChapter: aChapter
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				|  |  | -	^selectedChapter := aChapter
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!DocumentationWidget methodsFor: 'actions'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -displayChapter: aChapter
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				|  |  | -	self selectedChapter: aChapter.
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				|  |  | -	self updateChapterDiv
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -selectChapter: aChapter
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				|  |  | -	document location hash: aChapter id
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!DocumentationWidget methodsFor: 'rendering'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -renderChapterMenu: aChapter on: html
 | 
	
		
			
				|  |  | -	html a
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				|  |  | -		with: aChapter title;
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				|  |  | -		onClick: [
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				|  |  | -			self selectChapter: aChapter].
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				|  |  | -	html ol with: [
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				|  |  | -			aChapter chapters do: [:each |
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				|  |  | -				html li with: [
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				|  |  | -					self renderChapterMenu: each on: html]]]
 | 
	
		
			
				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -renderMenuOn: html
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				|  |  | -	html div 
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				|  |  | -		class: 'menu';
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				|  |  | -		with: [
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				|  |  | -			html ol with: [
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				|  |  | -				self chapters do: [:each |
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				|  |  | -					html li with: [
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				|  |  | -						self renderChapterMenu: each on: html]]]]
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				|  |  | -!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -renderOn: html
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				|  |  | -	html div 
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				|  |  | -		class: 'documentation';
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				|  |  | -		with: [
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				|  |  | -			self renderMenuOn: html.
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				|  |  | -			chapterDiv := html div.
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				|  |  | -			self updateChapterDiv]
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
 | 
	
		
			
				|  |  | -!DocumentationWidget methodsFor: 'updating'!
 | 
	
		
			
				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -updateChapterDiv
 | 
	
		
			
				|  |  | -	chapterDiv contents: [:html |
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				|  |  | -		html with: self selectedChapter]
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				|  |  | -! !
 | 
	
		
			
				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -!DocumentationWidget class methodsFor: 'instance creation'!
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				|  |  | -
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				|  |  | -on: aBuilder
 | 
	
		
			
				|  |  | -	^self new
 | 
	
		
			
				|  |  | -		builder: aBuilder;
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				|  |  | -		yourself
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				|  |  | -! !
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				|  |  | -
 |