Beginners August 2011

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Is there a tandard way to attach context menus
by Herbert König 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hello all, is there a standard way to attach a context menu to a morph? It's fairly easy to do by checking for yellowButtonPressed and manually firing up a MenuMorph. But it is sufficient to implement #addCustomMenuItems:hand: to get an enhanced Halo menu while #addYellowButtonMenuItemsTo:event: and #hasYellowButtonMenu don't help. So is there a predefined way without everybody doing his own? Thanks, Herbert mailto:herbertkoenig@gmx.net

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OMeta
by Sean P. DeNigris 25 Aug '11

25 Aug '11

I tried to load OMeta2 into Squeak 4.2 and ended up with "AnObsoleteOMeta2Base subclass: #OMeta2" >From squeaksource.com/OMeta, I loaded: 1. OMeta2-Preload 2. OMeta2-Postload It seems like the post-load is removing the base class of OMeta2. How do I load it successfully? Thanks. Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/OMeta-tp3768488p3768488.html Sent from the Squeak - Beginners mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Install squeak on BSD
by bronta＠rambler.ru 25 Aug '11

25 Aug '11

Hallo! I'm trying to install squeak from sources on FreeBSD 8.2. I read Readme and followed it's instructions. But when I run squeak I get error: "Could not find display driver vm-display-X11; either:check that /usr/local/lib/squeak/3.10-6/vm-display-X11.so exists" I found this topic in bug tracker: http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7451 As I understood docs are incorrect and I must use cmake instead of make. I used "cmake -i" command and got this message: "CMake Error: The source directory "/home/.../Squeak-4.4.7.2357-src/bld" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt." Actually I don't know anything about cmake utility. And I need instructions how to build squeak. Please help!

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Omnibrowser help
by Rob Rothwell 14 Aug '11

14 Aug '11

Are there some tips/documentation somewhere on getting the most out of the OmniBrowser? The MulitpleSelection browser looks interesting (sort of like the tabbed browser in VisualWorks), but I don't quite understand its behaviour and what method it decides to show in which pane when you move around or save changes. On the same topic, can anyone point me toward how I could add a new item to the class context menu in the OmniBrowser? I want to add a new template selection menu item (like "new class template" and "new trait template") because I have created a method that creates TWO classes at the same time for an Aida application (A domain model class AND its associated WebApp class). Thanks, Rob Rothwell

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Re: [Newbies] Making a Morphic Book released, please critique
by Gary Dunn 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

I will consider using Etoys instead. Squeak just feels more like what Alan Kay and Seymour Papert had in mind. Screencasts have their place. I just don't like the idea of going outside of Squeak to teach someone how to teach using Squeak. We need to bring back multimedia. Thanks for taking the time to comment. I'll look more at how to make a screencast. Gary Dunn Open Slate Project http://openslate.org On Aug 3, 2011 4:00 PM, "Steve Thomas" <sthomas1(a)gosargon.com> wrote: Gary, On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Gary Dunn <garydunnhi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > One of the goals for thi... A very good goal. Have you considered using Etoys as a PowerPoint alternative? If your target is 14-18 year olds, this may be a much easier on-ramp for them. Your ideas and documentation are good a similar version for Etoys (perhaps using Event Theater to demonstrate how certain things are done would be nice as you can create "screencasts" within Etoys, just be sure not to move the mouse too quickly as it can cause problems). > > If anyone has some time (ha ha) I would appreciate any and all comments, starting with spelli... One idea is some sample books, perhaps along with screencasts on YouTube or embedded within the project using Event Theater to demonstrate how you made them. _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

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Making a Morphic Book released, please critique
by Gary Dunn 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

I have released a first version of my first Chalk Dust book, "How to Make a Chalk Dust Morphic Book." This book makes a reference to my next book, which describes using the Squeak mouse. That should be done soon. The intended audience for this book is a teacher or college student who is at least a beginner at using Squeak -- this book does not teach someone how to use Squeak, but it does focus on fundamentals relavent to using a book morph. The intended audience for Chalk Dust books are students at the middle and high school level, say 14 - 18 years old. An older demographic than OLPC. One of the goals for this effort is to use Squeak "out of the box." I realize that to you folks, a little code here and there is easy. Picture an alternative to PowerPoint and you will be close to what I have in mind. As an author gains experience with Squeak they should be able to create increasingly fancy books. If anyone has some time (ha ha) I would appreciate any and all comments, starting with spelling and grammer and going up from there as far as you like. After I have had time to incorporate your suggestions I will make a formal announcement on the Open Slate web site and mailing list. Read about the new book on the wiki: http://wiki.openslate.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=Chalk_Dust_Applications… Link to the project file: http://www.aloha.com/~knowtree/openslate/projects/ChalkDust_MakingAMorphicB… In closing let me say thanks to all of you who have responded to my queations here. -- Gary Dunn Open Slate Project Honolulu

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VB-Regex issue...
by Lawson English 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

anyone familiar with VB-Regex package? this code should be returning an ordered collection of 25 hits (I thought). Instead it returns one long string of all 25 hits: http://pastebin.com/eGcX6vg2 source string: http://pastebin.com/AkyQrXGD I've been playing with this one for an several hours. I can't tell if the strings are too complicated or if I'm just using the wrong syntax, though the simple example works just fine. '\w+' asRegex matchesIn: 'Now is the Time' => an OrderedCollection('Now' 'is' 'the' 'Time') Thanks. Lawson

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