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: 1.17 date: 2023/10/31 11:06:17

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.

copyright
COPYRIGHT (c) 2011 by eXept Software AG
             All Rights Reserved

This software is furnished under a license and may be used
only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not
be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is
hereby transferred.

Class protocol:

 fullName

(comment from inherited method)
Answer the name of the receiver, fully qualified.

 fullName: aString

 fullNamePerSe

 initials

 initials: aString

 requestFullName

 new

(comment from inherited method)
return an instance of myself without indexed variables

 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...

Usage example(s):

self fixStamp:'aaa bbb ccc' => 'ccc aaa bbb' self fixStamp:'aaa bbb 123' => 'aaa bbb 123'

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

(comment from inherited method)
just to ignore initialize to objects which do not need it

 useAuthor: aString during: aBlock

 messagePrompt

 requestFullName

Modified (format): / 03-06-2023 / 12:01:05 / cg