Squeak-dev May 1998

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Re: First automatic updates to beta image available
by Reinier van Loon 12 May '98

12 May '98

Dan wrote: > 2. Henceforth, whenever you wish, you may choose 'update code from server' from the 'help...' menu. >As of this writing, you should receive 7 new updates if you choose this command. Yip. Counted 7 times a progress notification 'Reading a stream' and the message '...7 updates...'. Well done! With the risk of being a nag: Can we get it to work faster? Cheers, Reinier.

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First automatic updates to beta image available
by Dan Ingalls 12 May '98

12 May '98

To all users of the Vers 2.0 beta image - As you may have read, Version 2 includes a facility for automatically updating your system from a remote server if you are connected to the Internet (hats off to Ted Kaehler who did all the hard work on this). 1. We have run into a problem with one of the servers referred to in the beta image, so you will need to execute the following exression in your beta image, and then save... (Utilities classPool at: #UpdateUrlLists) do: [:group | ((group at: 2) includes: 'squeak.cs.uiuc.edu/Squeak2.0/') ifTrue: [ group at: 2 put: ((group at: 2) copyWithout: 'squeak.cs.uiuc.edu/Squeak2.0/')]]. 2. Henceforth, whenever you wish, you may choose 'update code from server' from the 'help...' menu. As of this writing, you should receive 7 new updates if you choose this command. This first spate of updates include numerous fixes and features, mostly relating to Squeak in Morphic... Access to context menu in debugger value panes Autoselect for doIt, printIt, inspectIt Fixes to the parts bin Dirties FillInTheBlankMorph initial text so accept works Conversion of MVC menus now works with text in title Project creation fixed to make a new transcript (used to share). System window only tries to step model if it responds to step. ComponentLikeModel moved to Components category. World open... menu now offers to open transcript World changeBackgroundColor now does continuous updating Transcript now works in morphic. Numerous changes to PluggableTextMorph to support Transcript. TextPanes now try to keep selection in view in many cases. Quit, Save, setDisplayDepth, MessageTally now available in the World menu We have a number of further features to complete or fix, after which we plan to put in a few days on appearance and performance. Please let us know of any untoward experiences with the automatic update facility. - Dan

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Re: Web-Based-ST magazine?
by johnson＠cs.uiuc.edu 12 May '98

12 May '98

I am trying to organize people to form a Smalltalk magazine to replace the Smalltalk Report. My guess is that it will probably be electronic. However, getting a server and getting various software on it is the easy part. The hard part is the content. That requires people who can write, who know Smalltalk, and who have time to write about Smalltalk. Just setting up a wiki server does not guarentee that anything interesting will be on it. I've seen a lot of them that are empty. You have to do a lot of work to make them take off. So, is there anybody here who would volunteer to write an article or a series of them about Squeak? About some other Smalltalk topic? -Ralph

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Re: Squeak 2.0Beta + MIDI
by Mark Wai 12 May '98

12 May '98

At 09:06 AM 5/10/98 -0700, you wrote: > >Hello, > >I've up-loaded a Squeak 2.0 Beta VI/VM with the minimal MIDI files-in, >as well as complete ST and C sources to the directory > ftp://ftp.create.ucsb.edu/pub/Squeak/2.0Beta/MIDI >This is just the minimal MIDI support (See the examples in class >MIDIPort), not the full Siren (which will follow in a few days). >I'm also updating my STP11 goodies package, so STP12 will be along >real soon. > Did anyone tried MIDI and Siren successfully on Powerbook G3? I am seriously thinking about buying a G3 powerbook after numerous failed attempts hooking up just MIDI on my thinkpad under Win95 (e.g. the channel is always unidirectional). In addition, I think it is my advantage to have a Mac in order to always have a first hand taste on the latest Squeak :-) Thanks. -- Mark Wai Frontier Systems Architecture Inc. mailto: mwai(a)ibm.net or:[ mwai(a)frontiersa.com] __

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TextAttributes
by gr＠fuzzy.uba.ar 11 May '98

11 May '98

Hi everybody, I've done some changes to the TextAttribute hierarchy (HyperLinks for class comments, etc.) Now you can make multiple references for a single click, and you can add a TextPrintIt attribute to your text: it will print the result of evaluating the HyperLink to the right of the highlighted text, as if you just pressed Cmd-P. Just try it, you'll love it! (-: You can find this fileOut at www.sugarweb.com/downloads.html If you go there, take some time to see the other stuff... You'll make a bookmark for that page! Seller by! Richie++

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Re: Web-Based-ST magazine?
by Tansel Ersavas 11 May '98

11 May '98

Dan Ingalls wrote: > > Folks - > > I don't know how many of you follow the Comp.Lang.Smalltalk newsgroup, but there was recently a proposal for a an online Smalltalk magazine (thread=Re: Web-Based-ST magazine) from Johannes Link. In follow-up, someone else offered web server capacity to support it. > > Right now, I and the Squeak team are swamped with getting Version 2.0 out officially, but I would say it is time for someone to post a brief description of Swiki briefly and put out a URL to the Squeak one. I mean, what could be cooler than for the ST online magazine to be running in Squeak? > > Just a thought... > > - Dan Dan, I have been thinking about that for a while too, especially after I have heard that the May issue will be the last issue of "The Smalltalk Report". Here in NY, Charles Monteiro did a great job of moving most of NYSTUG web site to a swiki demo site. He and Mark Guzdial would make great partners for such an on-line magazine. What do you say Charles? Meanwhile I have discussed our Squeak book idea with a few publishers and they were all interested. We can turn some threads on this on-line magazine to an evolving Squeak book that at one stage we can have a printed version. Whatever happened to squeak.org? Cheers Tansel

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Re: Tips for Squeak 2.0?
by Tim Olson 11 May '98

11 May '98

I wrote: >> in 2.0Beta, the Morphic controls have changed: >> >> control key down -- invoke meta menu Tom replied: >Hmmmm. Are you seeing Squeak intercept control key down okay >in the 2.0 beta? > >Running the beta with System 8.1, control click seems to >bring up a grayed out Apple contextual menu. Interesting -- I'm running an older version (7.5.5), which came out before the contextual menus were added. Are other folks running 8.0 and above seeing the contextual menu problem? If so, I wonder if there's a way to programmatically disable it while Squeak is running... -- tim

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Re: Tips for Squeak 2.0?
by Tom Morgan 11 May '98

11 May '98

tim, > in 2.0Beta, the Morphic controls have changed: > > control key down -- invoke meta menu > command key down -- invoke special gestures: > unshifted: pop up halo > shifted: move morph > > > Hmmmm. Are you seeing Squeak intercept control key down okay in the 2.0 beta? Running the beta with System 8.1, control click seems to bring up a grayed out Apple contextual menu. ...Tom M -- +---Tom Morgan ------------------------------ (tmorgan(a)acm.org) -----+ I Brooklyn Union Phone: 1 718 403 2427 I I 1 MetroTech Center Fax: 1 718 488 1752 I +---Brooklyn, New York 11201 USA ------------------------------------+

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Re: Squeak 2.0 Beta Release (feedback)
by Reinier van Loon 10 May '98

10 May '98

Dan, it would be nice if there was an update on the server. Just for testing. I tried it and it seems to work. But I got 0 updates. Nice feature. If one starts to think about the implications... Next step would be to sync images without a specific 'update code from server'. And then of course the ability to tell an object to move to another image. I use a metaphor of objects, places and events. Places are environments where objects can live. A place is always attached to a physical place (an image). Of course, there can be more places in 1 image. Objects can be told to move (change address) and they may leave a forwarding address (technically a proxy, surrogate or whatever). Places have the normal community services for locating objects (like a city hall, even police to check all instances in an image). Well, the rest is just looking at the real world... Cheers, Reinier.

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Re: Squeak 2.0 Beta Release (feedback)
by Andreas Raab 10 May '98

10 May '98

Stephen, > >Der MIDI port lduft momentan aber nur mit > > vollstdndigen und kurzen Kommandos. Ich habe jetzt aber bereits eine > > bessere Variante fertig. > > *Bitte*, zeige es mir! Oops, sorry for sending the message to the list. I was just replying to Reiniers email and didn't notice that it has been sent to the list. Oh, and obviously I did not keep in mind what Andreas Mahling told me about your German ;-)) Anyways, the MIDI stuff isn't yet entirely finished. I'm still working on MIDI input part since it cannot be configured by the mapper :-( For now, I'll probably just select all available input devices on opening the MIDI port and see what happens. Once this is finished (probably later this day), I'll send you a message. Andreas -- Linear algebra is your friend - Trigonometry is your enemy. +===== Andreas Raab ============= (raab(a)isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de) =====+ I Department of Simulation and Graphics Phone: +49 391 671 8065 I I University of Magdeburg, Germany Fax: +49 391 671 1164 I +=============< http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab >=============+

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