Xotcl August 2001

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Changing method name and Filters
by Sheik Yussuff 29 Aug '01

29 Aug '01

Is there a way for one filter (A say) to change the name of a method and pass this new method name with the same args to the next filter in sequence(B say)? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Regards, sheik.

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xotcl debian packages
by Teemu Hukkanen 22 Aug '01

22 Aug '01

I've been maintaining debian packages of xotcl for some time now and thought it might be useful to mention that on this list too. Xotcl 0.85.2 is currently in debian's "testing" distribution and 0.85.3 is in "unstable". If you use debian, please test the packages and give me feedback if you find that something doesn't work. If you want the packages for debian stable ("potato"), drop me a line.

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info method behaviour
by Kristoffer Lawson 18 Aug '01

18 Aug '01

Situation: I create a class "C" with instproc "foo". An object is created from C called "ob". Problem: The commands "ob info procs", "ob info args" and "ob info body" do not work as I would expect them to. In particular, there doesn't seem to be a way of finding out the body and arguments for the instproc "foo" from the object. I could do this by asking the class, but I specifically would like a uniform way to do this, without caring whether the methods are inherited or not. Is this intended? Why? % package require XOTcl 0.85 - ---------- = = ---------//--+ | / Kristoffer Lawson | www.fishpool.fi|.com +-> | setok(a)fishpool.com | - - --+------ |-- Fishpool Creations Ltd - / | +-------- = - - - = --------- /~setok/

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XOTcl 0.85.3
by Gustaf Neumann 14 Aug '01

14 Aug '01

Dear XOTcl comminity, here comes the annoucement of patchlevel 3 for XOTcl. best regards -gustaf PS: Some other good news: ActiveState is planning to include XOTcl in the next ActiveTcl release.... ======================================================================================== XOTcl 0.85.3 ************ RECENT CHANGES relative to 0.85p2 are: - Speedup for parameter methods: Methods for accessing parameters are now 4 to 5 times faster. In the following example, "name" and "age" are parameters: Class Person -parameter {{age 0} name} Person p1 -age 99 -name -gustaf puts [p1 age] setting and retrieving of parameters has now roughly the same speed as the set methods (about 20% faster than instvars) - Reduced memory consumption for objects and classes: The size of XOTclObject structure went from 172 bytes to 68 bytes by * allocating assertion structures on demand, and * by and by omitting in the default setup metadata 10 thousand XOTcl objects consume now about 7 MB of memory. There is still little potential for savings in the C-structure (by using bitmasks), but most of the memory consumed by XOTcl objects are in the tcl-memory structures for namespaces etc. - Support for AOLserver: XOTcl is now prepared for use in the AOL-server. The stubs for AOL-server are integrated in XOTcl (many thanks to Zoran Vasiljevic). The required patch for the AOL-Server is available from http://media.wu-wien.ac.at/download.html#aol - Stub-library support: XOTcl supports now the stub library. This means that it is less dependent on particular Tcl implementations. The support was quite tricky since some commands used by XOTcl (like Tcl_IncrObjCmd, Tcl_UpvarObjCmd, ...) are not exported by the stub library, and the solution has to work in the multithreaded AOL-server environment) - various small optimizations and code cleanups - some actiweb fixes (agent migration was broken) For more details, please check the ChangeLog file. Best regards, Gustaf Neumann

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Filter Problem - Help!
by Sheik Yussuff 08 Aug '01

08 Aug '01

Below is sample code to illustrate a problem I am having with filters. 1. Object a is sent the message mb(not an instproc) of A 2. Filter af of object a intercepts and dispatches method mbb to object b 3. Filter bf of object b intercepts and redispatches method maa to object a 4. This time the filter af does not intercept method maa!! The method maa is sent directly to object a with the resulting error: object a unable to dispatch method maa. Can anyone assist me in explaining what is happening here? ------------------------------------------------------------ #Code: Win 95 version 0.85 Class A -parameter {delegate} A instproc af args { set method [self calledproc] if {[[self] exists delegate]} { set del [[self] set delegate] if {$method == "maa"} { return [eval $del mbb] } if {$method != "ma"} { return [eval $del $method $args] } } next } A filter {af} A instproc ma args { puts "method ma of A" } Class B B instproc bf args { set sender [self callingobject] set method [self calledproc] puts "method is: $method" if {$method == "mb"} { return [eval $sender maa] } next } B filter bf B instproc mb args { puts "method mb of B" } B instproc mbb args { puts "method mbb of B" } #Test case B b A a a delegate b #a ma a mb

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XotclIDE Version 0.18
by Artur Trzewik 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

Hi! There is new 0.18 version of XotclIDE http://www.xdobry.de/xotclide Main Changes: 1. test framework and small GUI for automatic unit tests. 2. same test classes for xotclIDE (many bugs could be found and destroyed) 3. changes browser. (do diff like work for objects versions) 4. Same new function for method editing. Next Prev functions to browse methods like in hypertext browser (with viewing history). Spawned windows for method editing. 5. Wizard dialog for creating or redefining classes 6. Many additional small functions. Artur Trzewik

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