Daniel,

What a sad story!

However, if, before quitting-without-saving, you at least had 
*accepted* the method you were editing (type cmd-s, or choose "save" 
from the menu, or hit ENTER,) your work is not lost.  Fire up your 
image and request "changes..." "recently logged changes..." and 
choose an appropriate point to browse back to.  Alternatively, 
evaluate "Smalltalk recover: 20000" and then copy and paste from the 
resulting file.

If you however never submitted your method, then at least this will 
serve as a memorable cautionary tale.

Extensively editing a large body of text without making any gesture 
to save it from time to time -- via image "snapshot" or by "saving" 
the individual method or text-window contents -- is one of the very 
few ways you can lose a significant amount of work in Squeak, because 
if for any reason there is a vm freeze, an os crash, or an 
ill-advised quit-without-saving, there will be no way to get it back.

Hoping that you "saved" your method and that you can therefore easily 
get it back...

   -- Scott


At 10:05 AM -0400 10/12/01, Daniel Kornhauser wrote:
>Dear Goran:
>
>You internationalization tutorial was GREAT. I did the translation 
>to Spanish a few days ago but it was short lived.
>When I finished the list I close squeaky without saving.
>YES I'm stupid, yes I ignored the warning message ....
>Anyway now I have timed who much it take's to translate to Spanish : 
>it's five hours of work (with breaks and other distractions). The 
>translations I did wasn't very good because I didn't know what 30% 
>of the terms I was translating actually did in EToys.but it was 
>decent.
>
>  I will work on it next week; I'm leaving to work one week in Mexico 
>in a little town called "Santa Clara del Cobre "and I have no choice 
>because I want to use it there.
>
>So Please forgive me for my delay in my replies and we well have a 
>Spanish Etoys before the end of the month.
>
>						Daniel.
>
>P.S:
>
>I took the liberty of including goran internationalization tutorial 
>as I found it very helpful:
>
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>Hi! (this email turned into a little tutorial, hope you don't mind...)
>
>Daniel Kornhauser <dkor at media.mit.edu> wrote:
>  > Hi Goran:
>  >
>  > I noticed that you posted a Swedish translation to the EToyVocabulary. I'd
>  > like to make a Spanish translation of the
>  > EToyVocabulary.
>  > Since I don't know Smalltalk (but I can handle other languages, C, java,
>  > python, etc...) my first question is how to I load
>  > SwedishVocabulary.cs in Squeak ( I'm lost in the pop up menus I can't file
>>  "open file" or something that looks like it).
>
>First, make sure you have a fresh Squeak image. I use 3.1a update 4343.
>
>Well, start with open... from the popupmenu you get when pointing at the
>desktop, and then "filelist". This gives you a little filebrowser, find
>the directory where you have downloaded my changeset. If you don't have
>it handy I found it at:
>
>http://attach4.groups.yahoo.com/v1/cLe6O0f56hQgRP77MO0Y0mnxu926ODo5G92l51TFqmcGGe9wKt8CPuGkvoyVzHI2hOfsGtUTxeZyLlid0RVjsqcDnoHdH1TpnYoSXM2cT-3Ax 
>rLx_ADNsZzuKxY/SwedishVocabulary.cs.gz
>
>>  Daniel : If you don't find it with this link you can just go to 
>>yahoo squeak links and search for SwedishVocabulary.
>
>Select the file and select "decompress into file". This creates a .cs
>file. Select that one and do "file in to new changeset" in the
>popupmenu. That is better than plain "file in".
>
>ChangeSets are wonderful little things which can be described as
>"recording tapes" that record all the source code changes that you do no
>matter what tool you are using. The best tool to play with them is the
>"dual change sorter" which you open with "open..."->"dual change
>sorter".
>
>You should find my changeset for my swedish translation at the top and
>by looking at it you see exactly what changes it contains. You should
>see that it contains changes to two classes - EToyVocabulary and
>Project. By selecting each you see that I changed one method in Project
>called "chooseNaturalLanguage". You can then select a method and do
>"versions". This gives you a small browser showing you exactly what I
>did. My initials are "gh" and "sw" is Scott Wallace. You can register
>your own initials by editing the swikipage at:
>http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/8
>
>I just checked and "dk" seems to be available! :-) As soon as you try to
>change anything in Squeak it will ask you for your initials.
>
>Anyway, to make your own spanish translation you should create a new
>changeset called "SpanishVocabulary" or something and then make sure
>that this new changeset is the one that is recording. Create it by doing
>"create new changeset" in the dual change sorter.
>
>Automatically Squeak will change over to record in your new changeset -
>in the title of the dual change sorter you can see which changeset is
>the "current" one, it should now be your new one.
>
>The next step is to edit the same methods like I did! As you can see I
>changed one in Project and two in EToyVocabulary (well, three to be
>exact but the change in templateForLanguageTranslation was just a better
>comment), and then I added one new to EToyVocabulary called
>#addSwedishVocabulary.
>
>Changing a method is easy - you just edit it and save it by doing
>"accept" or alt-s (on Win32). If you change the top line of the method
>(the signature) and do a save you will automatically create a new method
>if the signature is different.
>
>Normally a Smalltalk developer would do this in the normal browser. You
>get one with "open..." and then "browser". Use "find class" to find
>EToyVocabulary. Take a look at the methods and then just edit and save!
>
>When you save your edits you will see them showing up in your dual
>change sorter. The easiest way for you to know what to translate stuff
>to is to look at the method #templateForLanguageTranslation which has
>the translations in english, because I guess your swedish is a little
>bit rusty... Andreas explains in the comment there how to do it too.
>
>(a note: In that method there are sometimes symbols #blabla where I
>instead used Strings like 'blabla', it probably doesn't matter - I just
>did what Andreas did in his german translation)
>
>Anyway, in short you would add "Español" after my "Svenska" in the
>#chooseNaturalLanguage method. Then you would add one line in
>#assureTranslationsAvailableFor: much like I did.
>
>And then you would create a new method called #addSpanishVocabulary in
>which you just change all the translations and also refer to #Español
>instead of #Svenska like I did.
>
>When you are done you should actually be able to try it out by creating
>a new Project, entering it and testing it by doing help...->set language
>and selecting "Español".
>
>BTW - I noted that the ñ doesn't work when creating symbols using the #
>sign. You will have to use #Espanol instead or write:
>
>'Español' asSymbol
>
>...instead of:
>
>#Español
>
>Hmm, ok, if we want to be correct then the method #chooseNaturalLanguage
>will look like:
>      ...
>	#(English Deutsch Kiswahili Svenska 'Español') do:
>		[:langSymbol |
>			aMenu addUpdating: #stringForLanguageNameIs: 
>target: self selector:
>#setNaturalLanguageTo: argumentList: {langSymbol asSymbol}].
>	aMenu popUpInWorld
>
>Note that I added "asSymbol" to ensure that 'Español' (which is a String
>literal, not a symbol) will be converted to a symbol. The others are
>already symbols (even though they do not have the symbol sign # in front
>of them - this is because of the fact they are inside a literal array
>#() where they don't have too) so they won't mind! :-) Yeah, array
>creation using #() is a little bit tricky in Smalltalk - it is actually
>heavily being debated right now on the list. As is also accented
>characters!
>
>>			Thanks  a lot
>>					daniel
>
>Always nice to be able to help! Just mail me if/when you get stuck. You
>can also "bounce" your changeset on me if you want me to check it out
>before posting it on the list. I will be going to Iceland tomorrow
>though and will be back on monday. You can also probably bounce it on
>Andreas Raab - he is a nice guy! :-)
>
>regards, Göran