Squeak how-tos

G.J.Tielemans at dinkel.utwente.nl G.J.Tielemans at dinkel.utwente.nl
Sun Aug 19 17:17:57 UTC 2001


I lke the way tutorials are organized in www.squeakland.org 
- on the left you have the text outline
- on the right you have a squeak-workarea
It would be nice to have a kind of fill-in-format of this screen in a
Swiki...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary McGovern [mailto:garywork at lineone.net]
> Sent: zondag 19 augustus 2001 18:02
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: Squeak how-tos
> 
> 
> 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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