Beginners December 2022

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Autocomplete
by ppadilcdx＠gmail.com 23 Dec '22

23 Dec '22

I tried installing Autocomplete and it doesn't work for the trunk image following the Autocomplete instructions. I tried to undo the changes and reinstall OCompletion, but it is not offering completions any longer on any of the tools. I reinstalled OCompletion from the repository and still not working. Anyone has come across this issue and have any advise? Thanks in advance. Regards Pete

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ballon help does not update
by ppadilcdx＠gmail.com 20 Dec '22

20 Dec '22

Squeak6.1alpha - I attempted to set the ballon help font size but it doesn't take, i.e. it keeps the microscopic font size (on high resolution displays). Regards Pete

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Re: [Newbies] Beginners Digest, Vol 176, Issue 3
by P Padilcdx 19 Dec '22

19 Dec '22

Sorry if I was unclear on the second question. Squeak Inbox asked for email and other info but did not ask me for username/password. So was wondering where do I enter that info. I tried in InboxTalk->Settings->edit user info; but that did not ask for server info. Thank you for the info on the icons…that was great. Regards Pete > On Dec 2, 2022, at 1:20 PM, beginners-request(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org wrote: > > Send Beginners mailing list submissions to > beginners(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > beginners-request(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > beginners-owner(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Beginners digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Newbie questio (Ron Teitelbaum) > 2. Re: Newbie questio (Thiede, Christoph) > 3. [Newbie] System Browser method icon & Inbox Talk app (P Padilcdx) > 4. Re: [Newbie] System Browser method icon & Inbox Talk app > (christoph.thiede(a)student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 08:58:16 -0500 > From: Ron Teitelbaum <ron(a)usmedrec.com> > To: "A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions > about Squeak." <beginners(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org> > Subject: Re: [Newbies] Newbie questio > Message-ID: > <CAEzdQ-c4DzhObPqEzQTwi6LAbP7xT-RtDsBuaOOmzBYwDyvszA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi Pete, > > A few things. If you had a cascade of debuggers it is very difficult to > stop them. You need to stop the process that is generating them. There > are a few ways to do that. To halt the current process press Alt + . (press > and hold alt key then period) > > This is highly likely to get your process but it may not. If it looks like > your process you are good to go. You can try a few times and you might get > lucky. (press proceed if it is not your process). > > Since you are able to interact with the system on the World menu select: > open > process browser. You can find your process and then right click on > it and select debug. > > Also your code is safe. It is in your changes file. From the World menu > select: changes > recently logged changes ... and you will find your code. > This works even if you kill your image (as long as you don't replace the > changes file). > > Hope that helps! > > Ron Teitelbaum > > > > On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 12:16 AM P Padilcdx <ppadilcdx(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Christoph >> >> I am using the 6.0 release. I was using a recursive algorithm. I did use >> the menu to close all the debuggers but more kept coming. I might have >> given up too early and force-quit Squeak. Just wondered if there was >> another magic trick. Thank you for the prompt reply! >> >> PS. Code was not saved due to the force-quit. But it was writing to the >> Transcript and from what I could deduce, that was the reason for the >> unlimited debugger windows with a “didNotUnderstand” at the top of the >> frames. Hope that makes sense. >> >> Regards >> Pete >> _______________________________________________ >> Beginners mailing list >> Beginners(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org >> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners >> >

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Re: [Newbies] Beginners Digest, Vol 176, Issue 3
by P Padilcdx 18 Dec '22

18 Dec '22

Found MailSender which allowed me to reset the info. But now I get a “connection closed while waiting for data” error.

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Multi-window browsers
by ppadilcdx＠gmail.com 13 Dec '22

13 Dec '22

I found a couple of bugs using multi-user browsers. First, is hard to click a button (I have the menu button on the left side) since the prompt to add or delete a window shows up for a large part of the title bar. Second, when using find class and then later select a different package, the "classes list" pane doesn't update and seems stuck on the package where the found class belongs. Regards Pete

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Themes question
by ppadilcdx＠gmail.com 10 Dec '22

10 Dec '22

I made some modifications of the themes as discussed on another thread. Since the changes are in the class the running instance didn't seem to see the changes until I ran the class creation/initialization method. Unfortunately that reset all my font sizes selections. Is there a better way to reinitialize a theme after changes without trashing the preferences? Apologies if this should be obvious - newbie to Squeak/Smalltalk. Regards Pete

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Browser button decoration colors
by P Padilcdx 09 Dec '22

09 Dec '22

I changed the system browser inheritance button decoration colors as the button label is yellow and with the colors I couldn’t read the button label, which was annoying (my OCD showing). Not sure if this is of any use to others but here is the code (also not sure how to share this…apologies…I’m a newbie to smalltalk). CodeHolder >> inheritanceButtonColor "Check to see if the currently-viewed method has a super send or an override, and if so, change screen feedback, unless the #decorateBrowserButtons says not to." | flags aColor cm defaultButtonColor | defaultButtonColor := (UserInterfaceTheme current get: #color for: #PluggableButtonMorph) ifNil: [Color gray: 0.91]. cm := currentCompiledMethod. ((cm isKindOf: CompiledMethod) and: [Preferences decorateBrowserButtons]) ifFalse: [^ defaultButtonColor]. "This table duplicates the old logic, but adds two new colors for the cases where there is a superclass definition, but this method doesn't call it." flags := 0. self isThisAnOverride ifTrue: [ flags := flags bitOr: 4 ]. cm sendsToSuper ifTrue: [ flags := flags bitOr: 2 ]. self isThereAnOverride ifTrue: [ flags := flags bitOr: 1 ]. aColor := { defaultButtonColor. Color tan muchDarker. Color green muchDarker. Color blue muchDarker. Color red muchDarker. "has super but doesn't call it" (Color r: 0.74 g: 0.523 b: 0.573). "has sub; has super but doesn't call it" Color green muchDarker. Color blue muchDarker. } at: flags + 1. ^aColor

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Beginners Digest, Vol 176, Issue 3
by P Padilcdx 03 Dec '22

03 Dec '22

Yes I did - several times but got timeout errors. The sending button goes green displaying “sending ..." but then I get a timeout error. Is there a way to reset the smtp info? Maybe I had a typo on the smtp server address. Thanks!

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[Newbie] System Browser method icon & Inbox Talk app
by P Padilcdx 02 Dec '22

02 Dec '22

Is there a guide as to what the icons next to the methods mean. I can guess most of them, e.g. the arrows are obvious enough. But others are not so trivial. Right now I have some methods showing a red flag - I presume there is some sort of issue but there is no help text that I could find. Thank you and apologies if this has been asked before. Also, how do I set the required login credentials to be able to send email through the Squeak Inbox Talk app within Squeak. All my accounts require login to send email via smtp protocol. The app did prompt for server/port/email address but without smtp login credentials it won’t be able to send the email. Thanks! Regards Pete

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Re: [Newbies] Newbie questio
by P Padilcdx 02 Dec '22

02 Dec '22

Hi Christoph I am using the 6.0 release. I was using a recursive algorithm. I did use the menu to close all the debuggers but more kept coming. I might have given up too early and force-quit Squeak. Just wondered if there was another magic trick. Thank you for the prompt reply! PS. Code was not saved due to the force-quit. But it was writing to the Transcript and from what I could deduce, that was the reason for the unlimited debugger windows with a “didNotUnderstand” at the top of the frames. Hope that makes sense. Regards Pete

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