Class: Author

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • convenience
  • instance creation
  • testing-support
  • utilities
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • compatibility
  • initialization
  • testing-support
  • ui-requests

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--Author

Package:

stx:libcompat

Category:

Compatibility-Squeak

Version:

rev: 1.8 date: 2018/03/07 14:48:12

user: cg

file: Author.st directory: libcompat

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libcompat

Description:

DO NOT DIRECTLY REFER TO THIS CLASS OR USE IT OTHERWISE IN YOUR CODE:

This is a dummy, mimicry class to allow some squeak code to be filed in.
Its protocol is neither complete, nor fully compatible with the corresponding
squeak original class.

Class protocol:

 fullName

 fullName: aString

 fullNamePerSe

 initials

 initials: aString

 requestFullName

 new

 reset

 uniqueInstance

 uniqueInstance: anInstance

Needed by AuthorTest to restore saved instance

 useAuthor: aString during: aBlock

 changeStamp

Answer a string to be pasted into source code to mark who changed it and when.

 changeStampPerSe

Answer a string to be pasted into source code to mark who changed it and when.

 fixStamp: changeStamp

Put initials first in all time stamps...

Instance protocol:

 fullName

 fullName: aString

 fullNamePerSe

Answer the currently-prevailing author full name, such as it is, empty or not

 ifUnknownAuthorUse: aString during: aBlock

If no author is set use the name aString while executing aBlock.

 reset

 initialize

 useAuthor: aString during: aBlock

 messagePrompt

 requestFullName