Squeak how-tos

John Hinsley jhinsley at telinco.co.uk
Sat Aug 18 03:14:38 UTC 2001


> Gary McGovern wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> As there seems to be a shortage of tutorials, I'm interested, as I
> learn, and as I make things; to record programming actions that can
> then easily be uploaded as a web page showing how something was made.
> Does anyone have any good ideas how to do this ?
> 


Well, how I do it (in Linux) is to have Bluefish open on one screen,
Squeak on another and either Netscape or Konqueror on yet another. That
way I can do whatever I'm doing in Squeak, copy and paste to Bluefish
and use Konqueror to view the results. (Although it won't always capture
what you want -- in which case I use Gimp -- I use Squeak's capture
image facility to grab most screenshots. As Ned Konz explained it to me,
you just open up your personal menu, click on "personalise" and put 

aMenu add: 'capture image' target: Utilities action:
#grabScreenAndSaveOnDisk.

in there (before the bottom line). And accept it. This gives you an
extra menu item in your personal menu. I can't tell you how much time
this has saved me.:-) )

Alternatively you might like to open up a workspace, rename it "Gary's
Notes" or something, and copy and paste stuff into there for the time
being. 

I find it useful to document stuff as I do it, otherwise I forget and
having to re-do stuff in order to get screen shots is a real pain.
Easier to do stuff you may never use than have to re-do stuff twice!

It's also an idea to do stuff as a project: that way you could always
post the project as working code -- like the stuff on BSS or Squeakland
(maybe with either a link to the website or a finalised version of the
workspace as a read me/tutorial to go with it).

HTH

Cheers

John 



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