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Re[3]: [UI] chang tab font in a flap ?
by Herbert König 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Hello Tony, HK> Trying to help you how to fish, cause in the time I have I didn't HK> manage to do it myself. HK> I'll try later to make it work and report here. I'll write up my findings as I go along: (in the end there is a solution but I think most important is you see methods to find out something.) Browsing IconicButton (which is what the Flaps contain) it seems to me that the label is not a Text or a TextMorph so it doesn't have a font you can change. I guess from looking at the code that an Iconic button uses a StringMorph to get the Form of its label and then adds that graphic to its own graphic. So the task seems twofold: 1- Find out which font is used for building the labels of the icons in the flaps 2- Find out how to rebuild the flaps. The second task was easier. I used the method finder to look for methods with "flaps" in their name. addStandardFlaps looked promising but the comment to the method said that the method itself does not display the flaps. But browsing for senders of addStandardFlaps revealed the class side method reinstateDefaultFlaps of Flaps class. So Flaps reinstateDefaultFlaps in a Workspace removes all flaps and rebuilds them. Give it some time when you run it the first time. So next I copied the Preferences class method chooseFlapsFont to a workspace, changed every self to Preferences and made it set the button font. This looked like: Preferences chooseFontWithPrompt: 'Choose a flapsIcons font' translated andSendTo: Preferences withSelector: #setButtonFontTo: highlight: Preferences standardButtonFont But rebuilding the flaps with Flaps reinstateDefaultFlaps still gave me the old fonts. So I think we need to solve a third problem, that's to regenerate the IconicButtons in the Flaps and maybe step 2 from above isn't needed at all. After I followed that false trail for a while I found in IconicButton initializeWithThumbnail:withLabel:andColor:andSend:to: and in this method I saw that IconicButton uses standardEtoysFont which can be set from the world menu as described in earlier mails. That finally did it. I had an interesting time finding it out. To sum it up: In the world menu set the etoys font to what you like in your Flaps. Then in a Workspace run: Flaps reinstateDefaultFlaps Then reset the etoys font to what you like for etoys. The first time you use the new Flaps you probably have to pull them out manually to accommodate the wider font. Cheers Herbert mailto:herbertkoenig@gmx.net

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can't install Squeak on Ubuntu 7.10 -- could not find display driver vm-display-X11
by Bryan Berry 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

I have been trying to install Squeak on Ubuntu 7.10 w/out success I was able to install it w/ Debian packages but the sound didn't work. At the advice of my colleague Luke Gorrie I tried installing it from the VM-Source tarball http://ftp.squeak.org/3.9/unix-linux/Squeak-3.9-8.src.tar.gz I used the documentation in /unix/doc/HowToBuildFromSource.pdf I ran the configure script and got an error that it couldn't find npsqueak libraries. I then tried ../config/configure --without-npsqueak it configured but this showed up in the config.log configure:26825: result: ******** disabling vm-display-X11 I then did make and make install Predictably, I get this error when I try to open a squeak image $ squeak olenepal-demo.4.image could not find display driver vm-display-X11; either: - check that /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.9-8/vm-display-X11.so exists, or - use the '-plugins <path>' option to tell me where it is, or - remove DISPLAY from your environment. Aborted (core dumped) Please assist :) What's the best place to look for documentation on Squeak installation? I found some in the Squeak wiki, OLPC wiki, and a few other places but no single comprehensive resource. I will try to add notes on how to successfully install Squeak on Ubuntu 7.10 onto the OLPC Wiki once I can successfully install it myself : Help! Part of my job is to teach people how to use Squeak so our development team (the real programmers) can focus full-time on developing learning activities w/ Squeak. I need to get up to speed on Squeak quickly. Thanks -- Bryan W. Berry External Relations Manager OLE Nepal, http://nepal.ole.org

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Give One. Get One. Now!!
by Ron Teitelbaum 13 Nov '07

13 Nov '07

Hi All, This is just a reminder that you can now help the OLPC project by purchasing XO laptop's. You will give one to a child in the developing world and get one for yourself. The Give One. Get One. program is only available for a limited time so don't delay. http://news.squeak.org/2007/11/13/give-one-get-one-now/ Or go directly to: http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/index.php Check out a cool review: http://news.squeak.org/2007/10/05/pretty-cool-nytimes-olpc-review/ Thanks, Ron Teitelbaum

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The Weekly Squeak Summary No. 15: Sep 23 - Nov 10, 2007
by Michael Haupt 12 Nov '07

12 Nov '07

Dear Squeakers, welcome to the The WeeklySqueakSummary, an irregular traffic-dependent report on what's going on in the world of Squeak based on the WeeklySqueak blog. Highlights of the past weeks: Pretty much has been going on in terms of Seaside recently. Not only is version 2.8 officially released [17] in conjunction with a download that gives you a Seaside server out of the box [23], but there is also an up-to-date tutorial on Seaside 2.8 that gives you an easy quick start [12]. OLPC mass production has finally begun [20], and a major German news TV show has finally discovered the project's existence [11]. The New York Times has a very enthusiastic review of the XO [5]. Lively [6] is the result of Dan Ingalls' work at Sun - and it is impressive: Morphic, implemented in JavaScript, running in your browser. Check it out. The past weeks' news items: [1] How to build a wiki in 98 lines of code http://news.squeak.org/2007/09/27/how-to-build-a-wiki-in-98-lines-of-code/ [2] Don't Miss Cincom's Seaside Podcasts Next Week http://news.squeak.org/2007/09/30/dont-miss-cincoms-seaside-podcasts-next-w… [3] Are you ready for this? Croquet on an Inteactive White Board http://news.squeak.org/2007/10/04/are-you-ready-for-this-croquet-on-an-inte… [4] Tangible User Interface for Squeak http://news.squeak.org/2007/10/05/tangible-user-interface-for-squeak/ [5] Pretty Cool NYTimes OLPC Review http://news.squeak.org/2007/10/05/pretty-cool-nytimes-olpc-review/ [6] Dan's the Man! Check out Dan Ingalls work. Squeak in JavaScript. http://news.squeak.org/2007/10/05/dans-the-man-check-out-dan-ingalls-work-s… [7] Conference round-up http://news.squeak.org/2007/10/10/conference-round-up/ [8] Seaside being used with Answers.com http://news.squeak.org/2007/10/10/seaside-being-used-with-answerscom/ [9] Smalltalk to the rescue? Microsoft EX-execs sue Red Hat http://news.squeak.org/2007/10/12/smalltalk-to-the-rescue-microsoft-ex-exec… [10] Preview of new Seaside Visual Interface Builder http://news.squeak.org/2007/10/16/preview-of-new-seaside-visual-interface-b… [11] See Bert and OLPC on German TV (in German) http://news.squeak.org/2007/10/17/see-bert-and-olpc-on-german-tv-in-german/ [12] New Seaside Tutorial By Hasso-Plattner-Institute http://news.squeak.org/2007/10/19/new-seaside-tutorial-by-hasso-plattner-in… [13] Capturing Debug http://news.squeak.org/2007/10/20/capturing-debug/ [14] Squeak BOF at OOPSLA - highlights + videos http://news.squeak.org/2007/10/24/squeak-bof-at-oopsla-highlights/ [15] Recess!! Learning at play. http://news.squeak.org/2007/10/26/recess-learning-at-play/ [16] Wait for it! - The Little Book of Semaphores http://news.squeak.org/2007/10/26/wait-for-it-the-little-book-of-semaphores/ [17] Seaside 2.8 Released!! http://news.squeak.org/2007/10/28/seaside-28-released/ [18] Nepal's Open Learning Exchange Announces First Learning Activity (It's Squeak!) http://news.squeak.org/2007/10/30/nepals-open-learning-exchange-announces-f… [19] Take cover we are being INVADED!! http://news.squeak.org/2007/11/02/take-cover-we-are-being-invaded/ [20] OLPC Moves into Mass Production http://news.squeak.org/2007/11/06/olpc-moves-into-mass-production/ [21] Who you gonna Call? - The Net Neutrality Squad! http://news.squeak.org/2007/11/08/who-you-gonna-call-the-net-neutrality-squ… [22] Athena Smalltalk for embedded applications http://news.squeak.org/2007/11/09/athena-smalltalk-for-embedded-application… [23] Seaside - One Click Experience! http://news.squeak.org/2007/11/10/seaside-one-click-experience/ You can find this and much more on The WeeklySqueak blog, the newsblog dedicated to the world of Squeak:http://news.squeak.org/ Subscribe to the WeeklySqueak RSS feed: http://news.squeak.org/feed/ Happy squeaking, Michael

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AW: Re: [Newbies] Locking down a squeak image
by Frank Urbach 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

>must be SmalltalkImage I think. A little typo. I think it should be like this: SmalltalkImage current saveAs Cheers Frank Send from a Blackberry --- Edelstahlwerke Schmees GmbH Geschäftsleitung Clemens Schmees Sitz D-01796 Pirna Handelsregister Dresden HRB 54 www.schmees.com

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Locking down a squeak image
by Rich White 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

An advice on locking down a squeak image?.... I am wanting to make the world menu, halo, & error messages unactive. Thanks in advance ! Rich =====================

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Change fonts of Tabs in a flap
by Stephen Moffitt 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

Hi work? I don't know if this is what you mean but you can change the flaps font by opening the world menu ( click in an open area ) and choose <appearance > and one of the submenus is system fonts where you can select flaps and change the font used for just flaps. Steve

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Change fonts of Tabs in a flap
by work open 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

My image is 3.9, but the problem is: I can not find how to chang tabs (items in flag) fonts, not the flag font. I am new to Squeak, and my screen is 1280 X 1204, then I change system fonts to make it proper for me, I can change fonts of flag, but can not find how to changs fonts of Tabs (items in a certain flag). Help me !

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Sorry about that
by Russ 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Dear Moderator: Please disregard strange reply concerning beavers. Reply was meant for a different message, nothing to do with squeak. My regrets. Hopefully you might be able to intercept and delete my reply and this follow up? -Russ Van Rooy

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traits question
by itsme213 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Can method names be re-mapped when I apply a trait? How? Also, if yes, can the same trait be used multiple times to the came class (with different mappings)? Thanks - Sophie

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