Squeak-dev March 2009

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Windows VM update (IPv6; single instance)
by Torsten Bergmann 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Hi Andreas, what about my suggestion to add the VERSIONINFO into the ressource section of the executable? Its easy to add and would align the VM to other Win32 executables and help on automated installs (windows installers use this info to update executables). Thank Torsten -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger01

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UTF-8
by Pierre-Edouard PORTIER 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Hi ! I am in search of up to date links (or tips) on how to work with UTF-8 (instead of the default latin1) inside Squeak. I thank you in advance for your help. Pierre-Edouard

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Re: UTF-8
by Torsten Bergmann 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

>What's that? First time I've heard of it. It certainly doesn't ship in >the Windows VM but there is really no need to - as long as the clipboard >prims return utf-8, the image can do the conversions it needs. see http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-project/2009-March/007108.html Bye Torsten -- Neu: GMX FreeDSL Komplettanschluss mit DSL 6.000 Flatrate + Telefonanschluss für nur 17,95 Euro/mtl.!* http://dsl.gmx.de/?ac=OM.AD.PD003K11308T4569a

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[Web Team] Broken link
by Herbert König 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Hi, I just stumbled into a broken link on http://squeak.org/Documentation/ There the Smalltalk syntax on a postcard link points to http://www.esug.org/whyusesmalltalktoteachoop/smalltalksyntaxonapostcard/ which is not found any more. And http://www.chronos-st.org/Smalltalk-Getting-the-Message.html has been relocated. It still works but maybe Squeak.org should point to the new place. http://www.smalltalk-resources.com/Smalltalk-Getting-the-Message.html Cheers, Herbert mailto:herbertkoenig@gmx.net

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running squeak from flash stick
by Ralph Boland 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

I want to be able to store and run my Squeak project on a flash stick so I can load it onto (someone else's) linux (ubuntu in this case but that could change) laptop. I need everything to be on the flash stick and to run from there. I DO NOT WANT TO INSTALL ANYTHING ON THE LAPTOP! So I tried doing a manual install onto the flash stick. First I stored Squeak-3.10-1.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar on the flash stick and then tried to untar the tar file. I ran into problems because symbolic link operations could not be performed. I tried again using sudo but the symbol links operations still failed and I also got errors of the form: Cannot change ownership to uid 1000, gid 1000: Operation not permitted. I also tried with Squeak-3.7-7*.tar but had the same problems. I am using a Lexar flash stick which mounts itself. I have not tried changing the mount settings for the flash stick which are: /dev/sdb1 on /media/Lexar type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=mixed, uid=1000,utf8,umask=077,flush) Can I fix my problems by: 1) Changing the mount settings. If so I don't know which ones; I guess this is really a Linux question. Or perhaps there is a hardware restriction and this cannot be done. 2) Copying the necessary files onto the flash stick from my machine from which Squeak can currently be run. If so which files to I need to copy and where do I put them. If this is the solution perhaps a set of instructions somewhere on how to do this would be useful since other squeakers may want to do this. If instructions exist and I have simply failed to find them then my apologies. Thanks in advance for your time especially to those who can help. Ralph Boland -- When a woman becomes sexually aroused the necessary blood flows from her heart. When a man becomes sexually aroused, the necessary blood is removed from his brain.

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category support fixes for MC1.5?
by Eliot Miranda 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Hi All, we're using MC1.5 & I just had cause to reload all my packages in a fresh image and I've noticed that none of my class categories were moved over. The bug is that the category order exists only implicitly in the source/source.st element of the mcz and doesn't exist at all in the snapshot.bin so when loading loads from snapshot.bin one ends up with some essentially random category order. Anyone have fixes for this? TIA

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Squeak packages for accessing SQL databases and for report generation
by Frank Church 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

Which are the main packages for accessing SQL databases and business applications in general, like reports, printing, forms generation etc? Frank

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Squeak Oversight Board Meeting Report for 3/26/2009
by Ken Causey 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

Please find this at http://squeakboard.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/meeting-report-for-3262009/ and comment. Unfortunately life intruded this week and we never formed a proper quorum at any particular point in time. However overall we did spend nearly an hour and a half chatting and during this time every member (Jecel Mattos de Assumpo Jr, Ken Causey, Bert Freudenberg, Craig Latta, Andreas Raab, Randal Schwartz, and Igor Stasenko) did show up at some point. We did manage to finalize the decision to change the name of this team and our name is now the ‘Squeak Oversight Board’ (SOB it is, so be it). Otherwise we chatted about issues freely. This was by no means a total waste. We have new members and some new topics and it is useful for us to be able to casually voice our thoughts and hear the comments of others. This should help up make faster progress during the next meeting. The topics of discussion included: the current status of SFC membership and relicensing, licensing and rewriting methods to be license compliant, the status of 3.11, the teams model, a mission statement for 2009, teams/board/foundation content of www.squeak.org website, and release team processes. Homework for next week includes: ideas for a 2009 mission statement, publicizing the blog ( http://squeakboard.wordpress.com/ ), schedule meeting with SFC to discuss relicensing, query existing teams for current status and near term goals, and talk to 3.11 release team further. Our next meeting is scheduled for April 2nd, 2009. An agenda for that meeting should appear on our blog in the next couple of days so check for it and contribute discussion topics. http://squeakboard.wordpress.com/ Ken

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Windows VM update (IPv6; single instance)
by Andreas Raab 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

Folks - I just finished another Windows VM update with two major new features: 1) Support for IPv6 (contributed by Michael Rueger). This hasn't been widely tested, so feedback and improvements are welcome. You'll need additional Socket code which is posted here: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2009-March/002458.html 2) Support for running only a single instance of the VM for application deployment. The behavior is similar to the Mac: When the app is launched a second time, the first instance will be activated. Moreover, if the app was launched by double-clicking a file associated with the app, it will be delivered via a simulated drop event (this is consistent with the Mac VM). The feature is controlled by two .ini file settings (see http://squeakvm.org/win32/settings.html): * RunSingleApp: When non-zero, only one instance of the VM will be run. A second attempt to launch the app will cause the first instance to be activated. When double-clicking on a file associated with the VM, the document file will be delivered as drop event to the running instance. This is consistent with the Mac behavior when trying to launch multiple documents with the same VM. * WindowClassName: The name for the window class to be used by the VM (something like "MyAppMainWindowClass"). The VM will only consider windows with this class name when determining whether the app already runs or not. This allows the VM to disambiguate different applications using the Squeak VM. As usual, the VM is available here: http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.11.2-bin.zip http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.11.2-src.zip Cheers, - Andreas

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Parser question
by Andreas Raab 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Folks - I have a quick question about a particular Parser behavior. It appears that when dealing with unknown variables in Parser>>correctVariable:interval: the requestor is only asked to provide a valid binding if the encoded variable is lower case. What is the rationale for this? What I'm trying to do is to get the browser to provide certain bindings when accepting code - but right now this will only work for lower-cased variables. Considering that the requestor is usually a Workspace, or a Browser that has significant context about the compilation it seems odd not to allow the requestor to provide alternative bindings in the context of a previously undeclared variable. Any insights are welcome. Cheers, - Andreas

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