Beginners May 2008

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re: [Newbies] Squeak and GUIs
by Hanita Bte Abd Hamid 15 May '08

15 May '08

Dear Claus, Here are some of the Tutorial links that I find it useful. http://squeak.preeminent.org/tut2007/html/ http://www.dmu.com/squeak/ http://www.consultar.com/Squeak/tutorial/english.html I hope it helps. All the best! Regards, Hanita ---------------------------------------- From: Claus Kick <claus_kick(a)web.de> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:33 AM To: beginners(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: [Newbies] Squeak and GUIs Hello everyone, is there some documentation/tutorial somewhere which explains how to build a standard GUI application in Squeak? Cheers, Claus _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

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on-line seaside tutorial or book
by ina tube 15 May '08

15 May '08

Has anyone purchased the Introduction to Seaside book available at Lulu? http://www.lulu.com/content/2234565 I've already gone through most of the on-line tutorial at http://www.swa.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/seaside/tutorial/ so I was wondering what additional material the book offered. I would be willing to purchase the book, if it offered substantially more than what the on-line tutorial covers, but on my student budget ... Paul -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://mail.doramail.com Powered by Outblaze

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Easy way to define new methods referenced in a method?
by Tim M 14 May '08

14 May '08

Is there an easy way to define methods when you reference them in a new method? e.g. renderContentOn: html html heading: 'ToDo-List'. html div class: 'menu'; with: self menuComponent. When I save it warns me that menuComponent isn't defined but there is no option to define a stub method for it? So I simply select that its correct. Then in the new method there is no refactor operation to implement that method (in Dolphin I can select the AutoCorrect menu and there is a define method option - is there some addin for Squeak that does this? Or does everyone rely on having a test that calls the method and so you let the debugger define it?) Tim

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Does create class prompt on save actually record to the changes file?
by Tim M 14 May '08

14 May '08

When I save a method that references a new class, it prompts me if I want to create the class when I save e.g. initialize super initialize. self menuComponent: StMenuComponent new If I let Squeak create the STMenuComponent class, i don't think it gets added to the change log - as when I crashed my image several minutes later and tried to follow the recovery instructions (http://www.eli.sdsu.edu/courses/spring01/cs683/notes/crash/crash.html) I wasn't able to recover source in that class as it didn't get created in the listed changes (although the subsequent methods I added to it were offered as changes to load). I think its possibly that the helpful prompt to create a class didn't put it in the change log? does this sound correct and is it a bug? This was in the Seaside one-click install image.

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Squeak and GUIs
by Claus Kick 13 May '08

13 May '08

Hello everyone, is there some documentation/tutorial somewhere which explains how to build a standard GUI application in Squeak? Cheers, Claus

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What do the (x) suffixes in menus mean?
by Tim M 12 May '08

12 May '08

Hi Guys - I'm new to Squeak (but not Smalltalk) - I've fired up Squeak images over the years and been put off by the sheer noise in the user interface - but then I discovered Damion's dev image and it looked a bit more approachable - so I'm trying to get started. I've been trying the seaside tutorial to get going, and one thing that I have noticed is that when I right click (I'm using windows) I get a menu and it has items that have suffixes like "do it (d)" "pretty print (r)". What do the items in brackets mean? I thought they were some sort of keyboard shortcut but I can't seem to work out how I invoke them - in particular I was interested in how to quickly reformat my code when pasting in examples from the tuturial? Tim

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A gift for your children..
by Edgar J. De Cleene 12 May '08

12 May '08

ftp://elpelotero:elpelotero@201.212.80.141/Public/VolcanSqueakLight.389.imag e A slide show and puzzle with images of the eruption of Chaiten volcano. Image is open so, you have Squeak for work . Edgar

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Hi, I 'm Edgar and have some words for kids from 9 to 109 years
by Edgar J. De Cleene 11 May '08

11 May '08

First, I ask you read http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/squeak/message/127265 Ralph is not with us for a time and you must face my mistakes. Any good in the release come from he and the super crow behind the scenes working so hard. All troubles and mistakes from me. How you learn to build a release ? So I could be on Squeak IRC channel at random times, probability grow 7.30 to 10.30 Argentina time (10.30 GMT or you local time). I'm very serious but do jokes and speak in Spanish with all Spanish speaking people on IRC, so you are warned. We have here in Rosario, Argentina a "bar" or "café" group named SqueakRos , all people of any countries are welcomed. All kind of subject was talked , off course the most often is Squeak. For me, Squeak is more as exchange code, is a cultural experience. So I talk about life here in Rosario, Fútbol, Formula One, Sci Fi, Movies, Music, etc in IRC. I'm here to help , but you should read the book and the swiki before. 3.10 is just released, quick fixes is on the way 3.11 is on draft but soon we start. So , is your turn to complains direct to me. And if I can't find a solution you should send a letter to the Board so they fire me. Nos encontramos en el IRC :=) Edgar

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[ANN] 3.10 is Final, over, finito ...
by Edgar J. De Cleene 11 May '08

11 May '08

Formal part and in Ralph absentia.... This release (3.10) is the first release on the road to smaller, more compact releases of Squeak. The Packages that have been removed are: * Flash * StarSqueak * SmaCC * Speech * Movies * FixUnderscores * OB * OmniBrowser The Universes browser written by Lex Spoon has been added to this release; this makes it much easier to install packages. Many actively developed packages are easily installable using this browser. For older packages that are not yet available from the Universes browser, SqueakMap is still available in the image to install these packages. Packages can also be installed directly from code repositories such as http://www.squeaksource.com/ using the Monticello browser. For example, Keith Hodges' Installer package is available from http://www.squeaksource.com/Installer, and the Universes package is available from http://www.squeaksource.com/universes. Quality control ------------------------------- We know that this release is not yet perfect, but there are now more than 2200 automated tests that run under Mac OS X, Windows XP and SimplyMepis Linux 6.5 every time a [BUG] or [ENH] report from Mantis is made to our update stream. Mantis ------------------- From now on, bug reports and improvements are best reported by filling in a Mantis report at http://bugs.squeak.org. Instructions are available at http://bugs.squeak.org/proj_doc_page.php . On behalf of the 3dot10 team, Ralph Johnson, Edgar J. de Cleene, and the following list of "Ferrari team" nicknames in Mantis: franksergeant gokr wiz Dionisiy al andreas matthewf Damien Cassou rr wbk mathk dse MarcusDenker kwl black hangal johnpf bergel dpollet Krivanek loewis Keith_Hodges gilEgozi sumi haleden sge thams nicolas cellier johnmci

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Nothing's working
by Lee Nixon 11 May '08

11 May '08

When I first got Squeak last night I took a quick look at it and was quite impressed--thought it had a lot of potential not only for the project I currently want to do, but I could see possibilities for quite a few others as well. So this morning I got a copy of 'Squeak by Example', skimmed over the 'hello' and 'add two plus two' sections and started in on the first simple program 'Quinto'. Yeeeeks!! Nothing--absolutely <nothing.> --- works the way the author describes it. I did get a few things to work, but I had to piddle around (click on this, click on that) to get it done. Other than that -- whenever I follow the instructions in the book --all I get is messages telling me I did something wrong. It wasn't <me> that did something wrong here, people! I've been following instructions line by line, word by word, and letter by letter. What gives here?

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