Beginners December 2016

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steam controller and Etoys
by Vicki S 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

Hi. I tried signing up for the Squeakland mailing list but I'm not sure that worked. I was fiddling around with Etoys yesterday and remembered getting an Xbox 360 controller working with the joystick morph in Windows. So I tried out my Steam controller from Valve. I couldn't connect it to the morph but Windows 10 views it as a usb keyboard/mouse and it worked fine with the Etoys To Go app even without Steam running. Both the toggle and the left touch pad send arrow key input that the key press morph can capture. I am not sure if the controller functions in Windows without Steam installed but I wasn't up for the kerfuffle uninstalling Steam would cause just to find out. Unfortunately Steam isn't the kind of application young children should have installed but I thought it was cool that there's another input device out there that works well with Etoys. I tried out Ubuntu too but I haven't used the controller in Ubuntu for a while and I guess an update overwrote a configuration file because the wireless dongle wouldn't work. Plugging the controller in with a micro usb cord worked without Steam running but strangely lsusb still didn't detect it and I couldn't connect it to the joystick morph. Mouse and keyboard input was fine however. There may be an open source standalone Linux driver available but again I don't know if that is necessary. Of course to customize controller output applications must be launched from Steam. That works for Etoys as well. I am a hobbyist/enthusiast with an interest in educational software. Squeak has become my favourite environment for prototyping and experimenting and I much prefer Etoys to Scratch. Some of the issues I have with Etoys have been already been expressed by others so I am curious if any new versions are in the pipeline. Thanks Vicki

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String question
by obrienj 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

Why does the x := 'Transcript show: 'abc'.'. yield x := 'Transcript show: 'abc Nothing more expected ->'.'. ?

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Hi squeak mailing list
by blubee blubeeme 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

Hello I recently came across Alan Kay's talks on youtube, then that lead me to Dan Ingalls and looking at smalltalk, squeak and object oriented programming as thought up by Alan Kay in the 1960s. I wonder how come this type of computing isn't the mainstream. We've seen other OS pop up since then that were a lot less capable that got some mainstream success. It seems like this type of computing gets put in the kiddy corner and most people don't know about it or those who do kinda use it and sometimes people just don't seem to get it. Has anyone ever though about making a platform where squeak is customized to the hardware, something like android, iphone, bb10 and qnx, etc.. Also if this is the wrong mailing list, can you point me at the correct mailing list for this discussion. Best, Owen

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Re: [Newbies] Help a noob install Squeak5.1-16548 for Linux
by vickiS 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

Hi Eric Depending on your distribution and hardware, could it possibly be missing i386 libraries? http://forum.world.st/can-t-start-Squeak-on-one-Ubuntu-system-anymore-td476… <http://forum.world.st/can-t-start-Squeak-on-one-Ubuntu-system-anymore-td476…> http://forum.world.st/VM-can-t-find-vm-display-X11-but-it-is-there-td468078… <http://forum.world.st/VM-can-t-find-vm-display-X11-but-it-is-there-td468078…> Vicki -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Help-a-noob-install-Squeak5-1-16548-for-Linux-tp49259… Sent from the Squeak - Beginners mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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