Squeak-dev April 1998

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Squeak port to QNX
by ocit.inc 05 Apr '98

05 Apr '98

Has somebody already accomplished a port to QNX. ? Charles OCIT

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Image does not seem to know its changes file
by ocit.inc 05 Apr '98

05 Apr '98

The browser is providing me with decompiled code. It only does it for behavior that I add therefore I am assuming that the changes file is not found. I have tried looking for a preferences option on the pop up menus but have not found anything that would let me specify the path to my changes file. Would somebody let me know how one accomplishes this in Squeak before I do something horrible as hardcoding the path to it in system code. Thanks in advance. Charles OCIT

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Indented volume list
by Reinier van Loon 05 Apr '98

05 Apr '98

Folks, below you will find an enhancement? for the file browser. It also includes a fix? for not showing the contents of a read-only file. Have fun, Reinier. 'From Squeak 1.31 of Feb 4, 1998 on 5 April 1998 at 11:53:08 am'! "FileList.cs is a change set to implement a indented volume list. TITLE FileList.cs AUTHOR Reinier van Loon (reinier(a)2share.com | rvloon(a)inter.nl.net) VERSION 1.0 IMAGE VERSION 1.31 PREREQUISITES none DATE April 5, 1998 This change set changes Squeak in the following way: 1.The volume list shows itself indented. 2. Existing files are by default opened for reading instead of writing (this fixes the message 'For some reason this file cannot be read' when it is a read-only file). "! !FileList methodsFor: 'initialization' stamp: 'RvL 4/5/98 11:52'! directory: dir "Set the path of the volume to be displayed." | depth | sortMode == nil ifTrue: [sortMode _ #date]. "2/7/97 sw personal preference" self okToChange ifFalse: [^ self]. directory _ dir. "RvL start" volList := OrderedCollection with: '[]'. depth := 0. directory pathParts do: [ :each | depth := depth + 1. volList add: ( String new: depth withAll: $ ), each ]. "volList _ (Array with: '[]'), directory pathParts." "RvL end" self changed: #relabel. self changed: #list. self newListAndPattern: (pattern == nil ifTrue: ['*'] ifFalse: [pattern]). ! ! !FileList methodsFor: 'list access' stamp: 'RvL 4/5/98 11:52'! toggleListIndex: index "Select the volume name in the receiver's list whose index is the argument." | delim path | volListIndex _ index. delim _ directory pathNameDelimiter. path _ String streamContents: [:strm | 2 to: index do: [:i | strm nextPutAll: ((volList at: i) withBlanksTrimmed). "RvL added withBlanksTrimmed" i < index ifTrue: [strm nextPut: delim]]]. self directory: (FileDirectory on: path). ! ! !StandardFileStream class methodsFor: 'file creation' stamp: 'RvL 4/5/98 11:51'! oldFileNamed: aFileName "Open a file in the default directory (or in the directory contained in the input arg); by default, it's available for reading. 2/12/96 sw Prior contents will be overwritten, but not truncated on close. 3/18 di" | selection | (self isAFileNamed: aFileName) ifTrue: [^ self new open: aFileName forWrite: false]. "RvL false was true" "File does not exist..." selection _ (PopUpMenu labels: 'create a new file choose another name cancel') startUpWithCaption: (FileDirectory localNameFor: aFileName) , ' does not exist.'. selection = 1 ifTrue: [^ self new open: aFileName forWrite: true]. selection = 2 ifTrue: [^ self oldFileNamed: (FillInTheBlank request: 'Enter a new file name' initialAnswer: (FileDirectory localNameFor: aFileName))]. self halt! !

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Re: Microsoft Concludes Agreement To License Technology For Smalltalk
by Stephen Ma 05 Apr '98

05 Apr '98

Nick, > [more Microsoft crash jokes] > > Similarly for BRAKES, when Bill's vision of Windows everywhere is reached, > and your vehicle runs on Windows NT 8.0 SP4. Kind of the obvious joke, but > it's been buggin me ever since that "vision" went public. It's depressing, but don't despair. The constant needling about the unreliability of Windows is one of the few ways we have of holding Microsoft accountable. If we keep it up, then perhaps one day even non-technical folks will realize that daily crashes do not have to be an inevitable part of computer life. We must all demand quality, even in something so apparently minor as motorcyle repair. Anyway, since this is the mailing list for Squeak, not Visual Basic, I suspect I'm preaching to the choir. So I'll say no more here. I'd better get back to work on the documentation browser. Regards, Stephen Ma <stephen_ma(a)mindlink.net>

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Re: Microsoft Concludes Agreement To License Technology For Smalltalk
by jecel＠lsi.usp.br 05 Apr '98

05 Apr '98

Steve Dekorte wrote: > > >Microsoft And Disney Conclude Agreement To License Technology For Smalltalk > > So why we don't see real press releases like this? Perhaps one reason is that Squeak is free and Microsoft could use it without licensing it if they wanted to? I am sure that a great negotiator like Bill Gates would not fail to note this. I liked the joke a lot, even though it didn't turn out very funny for Andres. A few years ago, a major magazine in Brazil (called "Veja") published an article about how scientists combined genes from a tomato and a cow. The reporter had been looking through back issues of "New Scientist" and got excited when he came across this news. He failed to note that it was the April issue and that the scientists who were to cause a fast food revolution were doctors McDonald and Wendy. So Veja spent the time and money to publish this, only to be embarrassed when the letters from more attentive readers started coming in. They are more careful now - live and learn... About the people who are trading Smalltalk for Java - while I am not one of them, I can't entirely avoid Java in my projects. The DAVIC standard for settop boxes requires it, as does the upcoming MPEG-4 standard and any practical used of VRML. Can't we do anything about this? It will soon be too late. -- Jecel

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Re: Microsoft Concludes Agreement To License Technology For Smalltalk
by Stephen Ma 04 Apr '98

04 Apr '98

Boris, > > I would buy tickets to watch Bill wear them at the > > same time. > > Please reserve a ticket for me. When I visit North America > next time this will be the first attraction I would wish > to see. Sorry, North America is sold out. I understand there are still some tickets available for Bill's Vatican ceremony, but only if you can prove your deep faith in Microsoft by flying to Rome on an airplane controlled by Windows. Stephen Ma <stephen_ma(a)mindlink.net>

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Re: Windows 1.3.4-better available
by Randal Schwartz 04 Apr '98

04 Apr '98

ewww... sending 1500 line post to a mailing list. I presume you'll get major flamage for that. -- Name: Randal L. Schwartz / Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 Keywords: Perl training, UNIX[tm] consulting, video production, skiing, flying Email: <merlyn(a)stonehenge.com> Snail: (Call) PGP-Key: (finger merlyn(a)teleport.com) Web: <A HREF="http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/">My Home Page!</A> Quote: "I'm telling you, if I could have five lines in my .sig, I would!" -- me

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April's fool
by sqrmax＠cvtci.com.ar 04 Apr '98

04 Apr '98

Hi. Maybe I'll be making a fool of myself over and over with this, but I would like to tell you something. Maybe April's fool is funny because this kind of messages appear and some people can't stop laughing at them. April's fool is a local convention for joking, or something similar. That is, not everyone catches it when they see it. Ok, maybe in a local group of people that's fine. It's not funny when you simply don't know that April's fool exists. We all speak english, but we are not all from the US, or Europe, or wherever April's fool is known. Ok, maybe that's the funny part of it. Perhaps you will consider what follows even funnier. 1. I was phoned and asked if I had downloaded my mail. No, I hadn't. 2. Blablabla. Microsoft did that? Incredible. 3. If I could translate it asap so we all can read it, because it's pretty important and so? Yeah, sure. So I got the saved message transferred directly to my machine and I started translating. When the phone call came, I was supposed to cook dinner for everyone here, which I didn't because of the asap. I was working on the #intSqrt stuff, which I also delayed. 40 minutes of translating. More time transferring it. Money in phone calls. Funny, isn't it? Yeah, lots of fun. What's even funnier is what was done with that translation. Hours of our copious free time working for April's fool management. Nevertheless, I have some copious free time to waste now and then. I trashed dinner and delayed my research, I have copious free time. But for instance, one of the guys who called me has zero free time. When I think about him wasting at least an hour which he doesn't have, getting excited, happy and so, the censored stuff comes to my mind. He has to work full time to eat, and I mean really full. Zero rest time, except when he sleeps. When I phone him he's always either working, eating while he works, working somewhere else or sleeping. Although he works that much, when you ask for the contents of his pockets you end up asking yourself "that little?". Maybe that's what's fun for some of you. What would you think of us if when you visited our country we played all kind of our own circus stuff on you? Circus stuff you are not even prepared to be suspicious of. Yeah, great fun, isn't it? By now, you all know what I think about this: [ self hands write: Censored atRandom. self finished ] whileFalse "doIt" .. .. .. Now I have made an overkill fool of myself. That's fun, isn't it? Your cultural environment is not the only one. Publish the rules before playing. Paraphrase as you like. Andres.

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Re: Microsoft Concludes Agreement To License Technology For Smalltalk
by Stephen Ma 04 Apr '98

04 Apr '98

Patrick Logan <patrickl(a)servio.gemstone.com> writes: > > Microsoft And Disney Conclude Agreement To License Technology For Smalltalk > [etc] Well, that's it. Disney is doomed. Everyone in the mouse kingdom will wake up one morning as employees of Microsoft. Visitors to Epcot and the other major sites will be dazzled by the slick marketing, and will enjoy the truly thrilling carnival rides. Of course, since Microsoft will be running things, there will be many fatal crashes -- but that's why the rides will be so thrilling. After the takeover, Microsoft's slogan will be revised: Q: Where do you want to go today? A: To Disneyland, of course! As someone else noted, Microsoft has already bought the Vatican, so Bill Gates will have the right to wear not only papal vestments but also mouse ears. I would buy tickets to watch Bill wear them at the same time. Stephen Ma <stephen_ma(a)mindlink.net>

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Re: 1) CD0.2 as PDF; 2) CD0.2.2 are there
by wirth＠almaden.ibm.com 04 Apr '98

04 Apr '98

Acrobat 3.0 introduces some incompatible changes in the PDF format. The Acrobat Distiller provides the option of generating a 2.x format PDF (which is forward compatible) or a 3.0 format. I undoubtedly left the setting on "3.0" when I converted the Postscript docs to PDF. I could regenerate them, but you probably just want to go to the Adobe website and download the free Acrobat 3.0 Reader (which has some new features, particularly the ability to use search indexes, if the author provides them. This used to be a feature for which you paid money, i.e., by upgrading the Reader to Acrobat Exchange). Mike Wirth Phil Weichert <weichert(a)hal-pc.org> on 03/28/98 02:58:52 PM Please respond to squeak(a)cs.uiuc.edu To: "squeak(a)cs.uiuc.edu" <squeak(a)cs.uiuc.edu> cc: Subject: Re: 1) CD0.2 as PDF; 2) CD0.2.2 are there Acorbat Version 2.1 will not read the CheeseDoc_v0_2.pdf. Have downloaded and try it twice.

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