[Newbies] I am a total beginner with some questions

[karl]

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
> Am 17.04.2008 um 23:06 schrieb karl <karl.ramberg at comhem.se>:
>
>> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>> kennellgr (*),
>>>
>>> you are dealing with a computer, who is by far not as tolerant as a 
>>> human. You have to be precise. When I wrote "The path should start 
>>> with '/Users'" I literally meant that. The first character in the 
>>> path has to be a slash ('/'). I guess Marcus guessed that you had 
>>> dealt with computers before so his example was a tiny bit vague.
>>>
>>> Also, as I wrote, please (!) open a File List. Click on the Squeak 
>>> window background, choose "open...", then "file list". Look at the 
>>> title bar of the file list window *carefully*. The path displayed 
>>> there should start with a slash character, too.
>> You can also get the path from the the context menu in the right top 
>> pane; select the file you want, right click and select copy name to 
>> clipboard. You can now paste in the correct path.
>> Karl
>
> You mean like I wrote in the next paragraph? ;)
>
> - Bert -

Yes :-)

Karl

>
>>
>>>
>>> Incidentally, you can use the file list to open your picture file, 
>>> too. Navigate to the right folder and press the "open" button. Or, 
>>> you could have dropped the jpg file from the finder into Squeak. 
>>> This uses the full path to the file internally, which is much easier 
>>> and less prone to errors than having to type it manually. If you 
>>> need the path in your code, select to the file in the file list, and 
>>> choose "copy name to clipboard" from the context menu (alt-click or 
>>> ctrl-click). Then paste it to the workspace.
>>>
>>> On a final note, when you open a file list, it will show Squeak's 
>>> "default directory". In this directory it places a file called 
>>> "SqueakDebug.log" whenever an error occurs. It's more useful to post 
>>> that file than making a screenshot.
>>>
>>> Have fun!
>>>
>>> - Bert -
>>>
>>> (*) We prefer real names in the Squeak community. Makes 
>>> communication much nicer.
>>>
>>> On 17.04.2008, at 01:02, kennellgr wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I used the string beginning with /Users and it still insists it 
>>>> doesn't
>>>> exist.
>>>> This is the error:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.nabble.com/file/p16735495/Squeak%2Berror%2B3.jpg
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Leave out the "MacPro HD1" part. The path should start with '/Users'.
>>>>>
>>>>> You could open a File List, it shows the current path in its title.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Bert -
>>>>>
>>>>> On 15.04.2008, at 18:32, kennellgr wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I typed this into a workspace and it tells me that the image (I
>>>>>> checked that
>>>>>> the path is valid) does not exist. this is a screen shot of it:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.nabble.com/file/p16714731/Squeak%2Berror%2B2.jpg
>>>>>>
>>>>>> do you have any idea why this error occurs?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> matthewf wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 04:53:12PM +0100, Marcus Strehlow wrote:
>>>>>>>> x := ImageMorph new.
>>>>>>>> x image: (Form fromFileNamed: 'path/to/your/image.jpg').
>>>>>>>> x openInWorld.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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