(darn, writing this a second time - conclusion: Don't hack Celeste while using it...)
Short facts directed to any and all (not Justin in particular):
1. Squeak is OpenSource. 2. Nobody has sofar been expelled from the Squeak community AFAIK.
If you have what you think are great ideas for Squeak - please, do post those ideas! We are here and we listen. (a tip though - try to keep things short...) I find the community to be very polite, openminded and aware of how open/free software works.
Just don't tell others what they "ought" to do or "should" do. It's not polite and noone here have any obligations to any one else.
In short: You want something? Just do it. ----- And now to something completely different - the Larch:
In order to prevent myself from posting too much to the list - yep, the itch is really bad sometimes - I have reinvented the [CCC] thing! But since the CCC was to much hard work... :-) This one is easier:
I hereby take the CSOTD pledge - Code Snippet Of The Day - to include a small snippet of runnable Squeak code in all my postings to the list! It may be silly and it may be dumb code - as long as it does something!
So, without further ado I bring to you "The Much Awaited Thumnail And Scaled Image Producer Doit" to impress all your deluded Java friends with (had a collegue trying to do this and I couldn't resist):
<CSOTD> dir := FileDirectory on: 'd:\images'. "add some image files to this directory first" dir keysDo: [:name | form = Form fromBinaryStream: (dir fileNamed: name). ImageReadWriter putForm: (form scaledToSize: 512@512) onFileNamed: 'scaled_',name; putForm: (form scaledToSize: 80@80) onFileNamed: 'thumb_',name] </CSOTD>
PS. ChangeSet included for Celeste to nag you to death about including the <CSOTD></CSOTD> in your postings to the Squeak dev list! Ha! Celeste rules. My God, what have I done - the CSOTD monster is on the loose... What horrendous code will it produce? What monstrosities will the list be littered with from now on? ;-) DS
PSS. We need more humour on this list! Tim! Bijan! To the rescue! :-) DSS