Pharo wiki

Wiki for the Pharo programming language and development environment.

The goals of the wiki are explained in the Manifest and contribution guidelines in the Contribution guide.

Looking for a list of awesome projects? Check-out awesome-pharo, a curated list of awesome Pharo projects.

Contents

• Contents
• Beginners
• General
• Pharo projects
• External projects
  • Data exchange
• Migration guidelines
• External resources

Beginners

• Setting up a new project
• Things beginners must learn
• Interesting things to know for beginners
• How to run Pharo from the command line - How to run pharo from the command line.
• Glossary

General

• How to deal with baselines - Configure your project and its dependencies.
• Pharo code export formats - Explanations about code formats used to export code to VCS such as git.
• Extension methods - How to extend existing classes in your packages.
• Traits - Structure to build classes via composition.
• How to deploy a pharo application - A guide to deploy a Pharo application.
• Some cool snippets in Pharo - A cook book to answer common needs of a Pharo developer.
• How to setup a travis build - How to have automated build on travis
• Progress bar - Display a progress bar to give feedback to the user.
• Profiling - Measure the time and space your program takes to execute.
• Menubar and World menu - A guide to configure and customize Pharo's menubar and world menu.
• Pragmas - A guide on Pragmas, annotations to compiled methods to add additional properties.
• Coding conventions - A list of convention to follow when writing Pharo code.
• Playground - Documentation on the usage of Pharo's playground.
• Windows 10 Subsystem For Linux (WSL) - Getting Pharo to run on Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux.
• Using CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) characters - Guide to help you configure Pharo to support Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters.
• Using CJK input methods - Guide to help you configure Pharo to support CJK input method.
• Iceberg on Windows workaround - Troubleshooting for some issues appearing when using Iceberg on Windows.
• Exceptions - How Pharo's exceptions work and explanations on how to use them.
• Sorting collections - How to sort collections with Pharo's built-in API.
• Refactoring - Documentation on the usage of Pharo refactoring's tool.
• Tweaking big images - Tips to make large pharo images more responsive.
• Sessions management - Documentation on setting up start-up and shut-down actions in Pharo.
• Image file format - Documentation about binary format of Pharo images.
• Settings - How to use Pharo's settings system to define your own settings.

Pharo projects

• Announcer - Implementation of the observer design pattern built-in Pharo.
• Basic interactions with OS
• Cursor
• Dynamic variables
• Numbers
• Rich text
• WebBrowser - A project to open a link in the default web browser.

Pharo and OpenSmalltalk Virtual Machine

• Pharo VM documentation map -

External projects

Data exchange

• CSV support
• JSON support

Migration guidelines

• Migrating Streams from Pharo 6.1 to Pharo 7.0

External resources

• Pharo Community - Various links of people involved in Pharo community. Helps to discover Pharo ecosystem.
• Contributing to Pharo - Official tutorial on how to contribute to Pharo using Iceberg.
• Generating your own Pharo images (Bootstrapping) - Tools for generating small Pharo images from source code.
• Magritte3 Wiki - Wiki related to Magritte3.
• Sean's wiki about pharo - The wiki of Sean P. DeNigris related to Pharo.
• #pharotip hashtag on twitter - Tweets to help new users to easily get going with Pharo, started by @astares.