Smalltalk current createPackage: 'Documentation' properties: #{}! Object subclass: #ChapterSelectionAnnouncement instanceVariableNames: 'id' package: 'Documentation'! !ChapterSelectionAnnouncement methodsFor: 'accessing'! id ^id ! id: aString id := aString ! ! Object subclass: #ClassSelectionAnnouncement instanceVariableNames: 'theClass' package: 'Documentation'! !ClassSelectionAnnouncement methodsFor: 'accessing'! theClass ^theClass ! theClass: aClass theClass := aClass ! ! !ClassSelectionAnnouncement class methodsFor: 'instance creation'! on: aClass ^self new theClass: aClass; yourself ! ! Widget subclass: #DocChapter instanceVariableNames: 'title contents parent level' package: 'Documentation'! !DocChapter methodsFor: 'accessing'! announcer ^DocumentationBuilder current announcer ! chapters "A doc chapter can contain sub chapters" ^#() ! contents ^contents ifNil: [''] ! contents: aString contents := aString ! cssClass ^'doc_chapter' ! htmlContents ^(Showdown at: #converter) new makeHtml: self contents ! id "The id is used in url fragments. It must be unique amoung all chapters" ^self title replace: ' ' with: '-' ! level ^self parent ifNil: [1] ifNotNil: [self parent level +1] ! level: anInteger level := anInteger ! parent ^parent ! parent: aChapter parent := aChapter ! title ^title ifNil: [''] ! title: aString title := aString ! ! !DocChapter methodsFor: 'actions'! displayChapter: aChapter DocumentationBuilder current widget displayChapter: aChapter ! selectChapter: aChapter document location hash: aChapter id ! selectClass: aClass DocumentationBuilder current announcer announce: (ClassSelectionAnnouncement on: aClass) ! ! !DocChapter methodsFor: 'initialization'! initialize super initialize. self subscribe ! ! !DocChapter methodsFor: 'rendering'! renderDocOn: html | div | html h1 with: self title. self renderNavigationOn: html. div := html div class: 'contents'. div asJQuery html: self htmlContents ! renderLinksOn: html html ul class: 'links'; with: [ self chapters do: [:each | html li with: [ html a with: each title; onClick: [self selectChapter: each]]]] ! renderNavigationOn: html self parent ifNotNil: [ html div class: 'navigation'; with: [ html a with: '← back to ', self parent title; onClick: [self selectChapter: self parent]]] ! renderOn: html html div class: self cssClass; with: [ self renderDocOn: html. self renderLinksOn: html] ! ! !DocChapter methodsFor: 'subscriptions'! subscribe self announcer on: ChapterSelectionAnnouncement do: [:ann | ann id = self id ifTrue: [self displayChapter: self]] ! ! DocChapter subclass: #ClassDocChapter instanceVariableNames: 'theClass' package: 'Documentation'! !ClassDocChapter methodsFor: 'accessing'! contents ^self theClass comment isEmpty ifTrue: [self theClass name, ' is not documented yet.'] ifFalse: [self theClass comment] ! cssClass ^'doc_class ', super cssClass ! initializeWithClass: aClass theClass := aClass ! theClass ^theClass ! title ^self theClass name ! ! !ClassDocChapter methodsFor: 'rendering'! renderLinksOn: html html ul class: 'links'; with: [ html li with: [html a with: 'Browse this class'; onClick: [Browser openOn: self theClass]]] ! ! !ClassDocChapter methodsFor: 'subscriptions'! subscribe super subscribe. self announcer on: ClassSelectionAnnouncement do: [:ann | ann theClass = self theClass ifTrue: [ self selectChapter: self]] ! ! !ClassDocChapter class methodsFor: 'accessing'! on: aClass ^self basicNew initializeWithClass: aClass; initialize; yourself ! ! DocChapter subclass: #ClassesIndexChapter instanceVariableNames: '' package: 'Documentation'! !ClassesIndexChapter methodsFor: 'accessing'! alphabet ^'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ' ! cssClass ^'index_doc ', super cssClass ! title ^'Smalltalk classes by index' ! ! !ClassesIndexChapter methodsFor: 'rendering'! renderDocOn: html html h1 with: self title. self alphabet do: [:letter || classes | classes := Smalltalk current classes select: [:each | each name first = letter]. classes ifNotEmpty: [html h2 with: letter]. html ul with: [ (classes sorted: [:a :b | a name < b name]) do: [:each | html li with: [html a with: each name; onClick: [self selectClass: each]]]]] ! ! DocChapter subclass: #PackageDocChapter instanceVariableNames: 'package chapters' package: 'Documentation'! !PackageDocChapter methodsFor: 'accessing'! chapters ^chapters ! contents ^'Classes in package ', self package name, ':' ! package ^package ! title ^'Package ', self package name ! ! !PackageDocChapter methodsFor: 'initialization'! initializeWithPackage: aPackage package := aPackage. chapters := (aPackage classes sorted: [:a :b | a name < b name]) collect: [:each | (ClassDocChapter on: each) parent: self; yourself] ! ! !PackageDocChapter class methodsFor: 'instance creation'! on: aPackage ^self basicNew initializeWithPackage: aPackage; initialize; yourself ! ! DocChapter subclass: #TutorialsChapter instanceVariableNames: '' package: 'Documentation'! !TutorialsChapter methodsFor: 'accessing'! contents ^'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).' ! title ^'Tutorials' ! ! Object subclass: #DocumentationBuilder instanceVariableNames: 'chapters announcer widget' package: 'Documentation'! !DocumentationBuilder methodsFor: 'accessing'! announcer ^announcer ifNil: [announcer := Announcer new] ! chapters ^chapters ifNil: [chapters := self buildChapters] ! widget ^widget ifNil: [widget := DocumentationWidget on: self] ! ! !DocumentationBuilder methodsFor: 'building'! build self buildOnJQuery: ('body' asJQuery) ! buildChapters ^((self class methodDictionary values sorted: [:a :b | a selector < b selector]) select: [:each | each category = 'chapters']) collect: [:each | self perform: each selector] ! buildOn: aCanvas aCanvas with: self widget. self checkHashChange; checkHash ! buildOnJQuery: aJQuery self buildOn: (HTMLCanvas onJQuery: aJQuery) ! ! !DocumentationBuilder methodsFor: 'chapters'! ch1introduction ^DocChapter new title: 'Introduction'; contents: ' ##Amber Smalltalk in a nutshell 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!! 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. Noteworthy features: - Amber is semantically and syntactically very close to [Pharo Smalltalk](http://www.pharo-project.org). Pharo is considered the reference implementation. - Amber **seamlessly interacts with JavaScript** and can use its full eco system of libraries without any glue code needed. - 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). - Amber is a live Smalltalk that **compiles incrementally into efficient JavaScript** often mapping one-to-one with JavaScript equivalents. - Amber has a **Seaside influenced canvas library** to dynamically generate HTML. ## Why Amber? - 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. - 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. - 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. Smalltalk stands head and shoulders above most other languages for clarity, conciseness, and human-friendliness. 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. - Having a true live & incremental development environment where you can build your application interactively in the browser is unbeatable. ## Disclaimer This documentation doesn''t aim to teach Smalltalk. Knowledge of Smalltalk is needed to understand the topics covered in this documentation. If you want to learn the Smalltalk language, you can read the excellent [Pharo By Example](http://www.pharobyexample.org) book. ' ! ch2differencesWithOtherSmalltalks ^DocChapter new title: 'Differences with other Smalltalks'; contents: ' Amber has some differences with other Smalltalk implementations. This makes porting code a non-trivial thing, but still quite manageable. 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. And since we want Amber to be useful in building lean browser apps we can''t let it bloat too much. But apart from missing things other Smalltalks may have, there are also things that are plain different: - 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. - 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. - The `Date` class behaves like the `Date` and `TimeStamp` classes in Pharo Smalltalk. Therefore both `Date today` and `Date now` are valid in Amber. - Amber does not have class Character, but `String` does implement some of Character behavior so a single character String can work as a Character. - Amber does support **class instance variables**, but not class variables. - Amber only has global classes and packages, but not arbitrary objects. Use classes instead like `Smalltalk current` instead of `Smalltalk` etc. - Amber does not support pool dictionaries. - Amber uses **< ...javascript code... >** to inline JavaScript code and does not have pragmas. - Amber does not have class categories. The left side in the browser lists real Packages, but they feel much the same. ' ! ch3GettingStarted ^DocChapter new title: 'Getting started'; contents: ' To get started hacking in Amber you can basically take three routes, independent of your platform: 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**!! 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. 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!! 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. 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" :) ## Downloading Amber 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). Unpack wherever you like, but I would rename the directory that is unpacked to something slightly shorter - like say "amber". :) 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 :) ## Installing Node.js [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". 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). 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. :)** - 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). - Installing Node on MacOS or Windows is probably done best by using the [installers available at Nodejs.org](http://nodejs.org/#download). ## Starting Amber server 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!! And it runs on top of Node. So to start it up serving your brand new directory tree of sweet Amber you do: cd amber (or whatever you called the directory you unpackaged) ./bin/server (in windows you type `node server\server.js` instead) 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!! ## Firing up Amber 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. 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. 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). Clicking that link and then pressing the **Class browser** should get your Amber IDE running with the ability to commit modified packages locally. 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 :)**. 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. 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. ' ! ch4Tutorials ^TutorialsChapter new ! ch5Index ^ClassesIndexChapter new ! ch6KernelObjects ^PackageDocChapter on: (Package named: 'Kernel-Objects') ! ch7KernelClasses ^PackageDocChapter on: (Package named: 'Kernel-Classes') ! ch8KernelCollection ^PackageDocChapter on: (Package named: 'Kernel-Collections') ! ch9KernelMethods ^PackageDocChapter on: (Package named: 'Kernel-Methods') ! ! !DocumentationBuilder methodsFor: 'routing'! checkHash | hash presentation | hash := document location hash replace: '^#' with: ''. self announcer announce: (ChapterSelectionAnnouncement new id: hash; yourself) ! checkHashChange (window jQuery: window) bind: 'hashchange' do: [self checkHash] ! ! !DocumentationBuilder methodsFor: 'updating'! update chapters := nil. announcer := nil. widget := nil. (window jQuery: '.documentation') remove. self build ! ! DocumentationBuilder class instanceVariableNames: 'current'! !DocumentationBuilder class methodsFor: 'accessing'! current ^current ifNil: [current := self new] ! ! !DocumentationBuilder class methodsFor: 'initialization'! initialize self current build ! ! Widget subclass: #DocumentationWidget instanceVariableNames: 'builder selectedChapter chapterDiv' package: 'Documentation'! !DocumentationWidget methodsFor: 'accessing'! builder ^builder ! builder: aDocumentationBuilder builder := aDocumentationBuilder ! chapters ^self builder chapters ! selectedChapter ^selectedChapter ifNil: [selectedChapter := self chapters first] ! selectedChapter: aChapter ^selectedChapter := aChapter ! ! !DocumentationWidget methodsFor: 'actions'! displayChapter: aChapter self selectedChapter: aChapter. self updateChapterDiv ! selectChapter: aChapter document location hash: aChapter id ! ! !DocumentationWidget methodsFor: 'rendering'! renderChapterMenu: aChapter on: html html a with: aChapter title; onClick: [ self selectChapter: aChapter]. html ol with: [ aChapter chapters do: [:each | html li with: [ self renderChapterMenu: each on: html]]] ! renderMenuOn: html html div class: 'menu'; with: [ html ol with: [ self chapters do: [:each | html li with: [ self renderChapterMenu: each on: html]]]] ! renderOn: html html div class: 'documentation'; with: [ self renderMenuOn: html. chapterDiv := html div. self updateChapterDiv] ! ! !DocumentationWidget methodsFor: 'updating'! updateChapterDiv chapterDiv contents: [:html | html with: self selectedChapter] ! ! !DocumentationWidget class methodsFor: 'instance creation'! on: aBuilder ^self new builder: aBuilder; yourself ! !