Squeak how-tos

Gary McGovern garywork at lineone.net
Sun Aug 19 16:01:40 UTC 2001


Thanks John and Phil,
Yes, quite helpful what you've given me but not exactly what I want. I
wanted all programming events recorded for step-by-step instructions that
could be followed, in text format.

Regards,
Gary


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hinsley" <jhinsley at telinco.co.uk>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 4:14 AM
Subject: Re: Squeak how-tos


> > 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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