The best way is to let Squeak speak for itself. You should create a "content
image"
with little demos. I can help you a little bit with the following demo
projects from 
my own "content image". To run them you need:

 - a Squeak 2.9alpha image with the latest changes
 - 1024x768 screen resolution, set Squeak to full screen mode
 - open a workspace in a new morphic project 

Evaluate the following lines to download the projects:
 
Project thumbnailFromUrl:
'http://software.freepage.de/cronos/squeak/Projects/SqueakPlatforms.pr'
"I think Squeak runs on more platforms than Java"

Project thumbnailFromUrl:
'http://software.freepage.de/cronos/squeak/Projects/SqueakBooks.pr'.
"Contains a book with a general overview on Squeak"

Project thumbnailFromUrl:
'http://software.freepage.de/cronos/squeak/Projects/SqueakFFI.pr'
"Windows only - showing FFI (Foreign Function Interface) capabilities"

Project thumbnailFromUrl:
'http://software.freepage.de/cronos/squeak/Projects/FinalFrontier.pr'.
"The final frontier segment from Andreas Raab with an additional background"

Project thumbnailFromUrl:
'http://software.freepage.de/cronos/squeak/Projects/SqueakGames.pr'.
"The games you will find inside of Squeak"

Project thumbnailFromUrl:
'http://software.freepage.de/cronos/squeak/Projects/SqueakGraphic.pr'.
"Shows what you can do with graphics in squeak"

Project thumbnailFromUrl:
'http://software.freepage.de/cronos/squeak/Projects/SqueakPooh.pr'.
"The Teddy implementation (Squeak Pooh)"

Project thumbnailFromUrl:
'http://software.freepage.de/cronos/squeak/Projects/SqueakShockwave.pr'
"Squeak Shockwave integration"

Project thumbnailFromUrl:
'http://software.freepage.de/cronos/squeak/Projects/SqueakMusic.pr'
"Sound's awfull after loading, change the instruments and it will work"

Project thumbnailFromUrl:
'http://software.freepage.de/cronos/squeak/Projects/ActiveTextures.pr'. 
"Shows reactive 3D textures in Squeak"

I will provide some more as soon as I have time. 
The last one seems to have some problems. Everything is for beta testers
only !!!
See http://software.freepage.de/cronos/squeak/Projects/overview.gif for an
project overview.

Hopefully Dan is not angry that I directly send them to the list so early. 

There is a much more you can show:
 - more 3D (open a B3DSceneExplorerMorph or the bunny sample in PWM-7)
 - the webbrowser Scamper
 - the mailtool Celeste 
 - the other Play with me (PWM) projects
 - the code update capability 
 - Swiki Servers (Check out class PWS)
 - communication via EToy system (see EToyListenerMorph class comment and
EToyChatMorph, ...) 
   You can send morphs from one squeak image to another in 2.9alpha !!!
 - the character recognizer (use CMD-R in a workspace) 
 - Sound recording (see RecordingControlsMorph)
 - Sound processing and voice recognition (see SpectrumAnalyzerMorph and
PhonemeRecognizerMorph)
 - Postscript and True Type font support
 - Morphic Scripting and Macro Recorder (EventRecorderMorph)
 - the speech engine (evaluate   Speaker manWithEditor say: 'With this
editor you can change my voice.' )
 - Multilanguage Squeak
 - Facial animation project (Goodie, see Mailinglist last month)
 - Nebraska (server image with network terminals, check NebraskaServerMorph)
 - SUnit Framework (from Extreme Programming)
 - Fabrik components (see PWM-6)

You can also show graphic effects like star wars scrolling:

	| warp src dest |
	"Star wars like scrolling"
	warp _ (WarpBlt toForm: Display)
			cellSize: 1;
			sourceForm: Display;
			cellSize: 2;
			combinationRule: Form over.
	src _ {-200 at -100. -50 at 100. 50 at 100. 200 at -100}.
	dest _ 0 at 0 corner: 200 at 100.
	Display restoreAfter: [
		[Sensor anyButtonPressed] whileFalse:
			[warp copyQuad: src + Sensor cursorPoint
				toRect: dest]]

or the world smallest drawing program:

	 | myPen |
	 myPen := Pen new defaultNib: 2;
				place: Sensor mousePoint.
	 [Sensor waitButton ; yellowButtonPressed] whileFalse: 
		 [Sensor redButtonPressed 
			 ifTrue: [myPen goto: Sensor mousePoint]].

To test the Internet capabilities evaluate:

	MIDIFileReader playURLNamed:
	   'http://squeak.org/Squeak2.0/midi/wtellovr.mid'.

or

	(FlashMorphReader on: (HTTPSocket
		httpGet: 'http://www.audi.co.uk/flash/intro1.swf' 
		accept:'application/x-shockwave-flash'))
	processFile startPlaying openInWorld.

or

	HTTPSocket httpShowGif:
		'http://squeak.org/Squeak2.0/midi/Squeakers.GIF'.
or

	Project thumbnailFromUrl: 	
	
'http://www.squeak.org/Squeak2.0/2.7segments/SqueakEasy.extSeg'.

Hope this will help you.

Bye
Torsten

 


-----Original Message-----
From: jchludzinski at worldkey.net [mailto:jchludzinski at worldkey.net]
Sent: Dienstag, 29. August 2000 23:31
To: Squeak mailing list!
Subject: Help with Squeak presentation to DoD!


I'm going to be giving a presentation to some DoD folks about the 
wonders of Squeak and why it ought to be seriously consider as a 
candidate for development work (for a wargaming project).  I'm 
currently using it for the prototype, so naturally the question 
arose: Should we continue to use Squeak (Smalltalk in general vs. 
C++, Java, etc. [the usual suspects])?

I would GREATLY appreciate any input!  In addition, I've noticed 
but haven't used either the GUI (Morphic) features or any support 
for Web/Internet development.  Could someone please address these.  

To date, I've been using Squeak for the sim-engine and models 
(tanks, planes, etc.).  The GUI is some legacy Java code from a 
previous sim.


---John