Squeak-dev July 2002

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RE: Do some good for the world; make M$ irrelevant
by Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent) 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

> From: John Hinsley [mailto:johnhinsley@blueyonder.co.uk] > > I've read varying accounts of Palladium and I'm no longer > convinced of the sanity of M$ management. To me it really > does look like they're desperate for cash cows. There have been rumors of "creative bookkeeping" at Microsoft for years. Microsoft has already settled one complaint brought by the SEC (without admitting any wrongdoing, of course, i.e. "We didn't do nuttin'...an' we promise we won't never do it again"). I suspect there are other irregularities in their books. I look forward to a full and complete accounting of their finances. http://www.usatoday.com/money/tech/2002-06-03-msft-sec.htm http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfacts.html Bob Jarvis Compuware @ Timken ********************************************************************** This message and any attachments are intended for the individual or entity named above. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not forward, copy, print, use or disclose this communication to others; also please notify the sender by replying to this message, and then delete it from your system. The Timken Company **********************************************************************

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3.2 gamma handoff
by Dan Ingalls 03 Jul '02

03 Jul '02

Folks - [I'm about to leave town] I have incorporated the last updates I knew of (incl a couple JMM suggested that were required to compile a new VM on some platforms), have brought in an old copy of readme.txt, and have written a short word of caution to folks who should be at SqueakAlpha, not in Squeak. I consider this final in code but not in appearance (please don't be shocked by the mess on screen). It needs... 1. The readme to be updated (flaps and UI prefs at least) and combined with the Getting Started text 2. A proper statement about rights and openness from Andrew, to go in the welcome window (probably at the end) 3. Ted to fix the SqC image whose URL appears in the welcome window, and it needs a good URL for Flash demo (suggestions??). I have placed the latest image on UIUC as Squeak3.2gamma3.zip (I used Squeak to zip it, thanks for the encouragement). I have spoken with Scott Wallace who says he is willing to do the final laying on of hands to finish this up. If you have easily-implemented suggestions about the appearance of, or text to go in, the first-screen windows, please relay them promptly to Scott. I will continue to be in touch be e-mail, though unable to do much of substance from here on. Scott knows this stuff well, and will probably do a better job that I at putting this baby in truly final form. Good luck, y'all... - Dan

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backgrounds for system windows
by Sergei Gnezdov 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

I don't like to have white color as a default background. System browser, workspace and other windows have white background color. How do I change that? The information on swiki How do I change the default color of a browser, file list, or whatever created by the "open..." menu? http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/782 seems to be old, because my search for defaultBackgroundColor returned only the following list of classes: ArchiveViewer AudioChatGUI ChatNotes FileList2 FreeCell Object PluggableFileList Project Scamper ScriptingDomain Thank you

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Idea to get money in Squeak community
by Stephane Ducasse 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

Hi Right now even if we want to give money to Squeak we cannot. There is no place where I can support Squeak by paying a kind of shareware fee or even to get a CD with all the Squeak material. In the school of my wife they are paying around 1000 $ for office and they don't use it so I do not see why they would not like to get a good cd with the major release on it. This is the same here at the University we could support Squeak but at least there should be a way to give money. I hope that ESUG will not lose money this year and that we will be able to give the purcentage we promised to Squeak. But at the minimum we need to be able to do that. I'm fed up to see that people are afraid to make money with Squeak because this could be a problem for SqueakC. Alan said it was not. So are the German Squeakers in the mood to get money? I can send you the cd with all the material I collected. Tansel what are your plans? Stef Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse(a)iam.unibe.ch) http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/ "if you knew today was your last day on earth, what would you do different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes

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Lowcost Handheld ARM system for Squeak (was RE: Dynapad R0.1 Rele ased)
by Swan, Dean 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

Actually, It's 16.78 MHz ARM 7, but the RAM limitation is the real problem. If you want a *very* inexpensive 133 MHz ARM9 based machine with a 320x240x16bit 3.5 inch color display, 8 megabytes of SDRAM, and an SMC memory card port, and USB port, I'd suggest the GP32. It's still only available in Korea, but you can also buy it mail order from Lik-Sang in Hong Kong for $159 US + shipping. There are a lot of development support tools available on the net. Squeak could be ported to the Gameboy Advance, and I've looked at it a bit, but to be at all useable, it would really need a serious overhaul of morphic to take advantage of the display hardware. I think just using a software bitblit would give a mighty unpleasant user experience. You can get 32 megabyte flash cartridges with 256K bytes SRAM pretty cheap, but that along with the 256K + 32K bytes internal SRAM plus 96K bytes display memory would still make a pretty tight environment for any recent version of Squeak. The GP32 costs about twice as much as the Gameboy Advance, but is only slightly larger and much more capable hardware, and the screen is about the same size as the iPaq screen. -Dean See: http://www.lik-sang.com/catalog/product_info.php?category=7&products_id=812& http://www.gp32world.de/ http://www-public.tu-bs.de:8080/~y0018703/gp32world/gp32/gp32.html -----Original Message----- From: Tim Rowledge [mailto:tim@sumeru.stanford.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 9:25 PM To: squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: Re: Dynapad R0.1 Released Jerome Chan <eviltofu(a)mac.com> is claimed by the authorities to have written: > Has anyone tried porting Squeak to the Game Boy Advance? 40MHz ARM7 & less than a meg of ram doesn't add up to great performance for Squeak. tim -- Tim Rowledge, tim(a)sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim Useful random insult:- A gross ignoramus -- 144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus.

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[BUG] reloading projects results in mangled images
by Baveco, Hans 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

Storing and reloading Projects with images (gifs and jpgs) (reloading in the same and other squeak images) results often in images (sketchmorphs) with badly mangled colors (looking like color-negatives). I remember having experienced this several times before. The strange thing is that - delving a bit deeper this time - when opening the project file with eg winzip the images are there, still intact, looking the way they should! So I guess this problem has only to do with how images are loaded from .pr files? Fixing this would make squeak a lot more useful for presentations! Hans

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[FIX] CategorizeFix-nk
by Ned Konz 02 Jul '02

02 Jul '02

from preamble: "Change Set: CategorizeFix-nk Date: 1 July 2002 Author: Ned Konz The 'categorize all uncategorized' choice in the Browser message category pane often missed categorizations. This change set fixes this problem. "!

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[newbie][q] authoringPrototype X newStandAlone
by Leo Burd 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

- Guys, I'm having a hard time trying to understand the difference between authoringPrototype and newStandAlone. Do I need both of them in my code? Would anybody help me out? Cheers, Leo

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Squeaky Gimp
by Philip Knodle 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

Has anyone done any work with hooking Squeak up with the Gimp? Thanks, Philip Knodle

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RE: squeakland swiki is down
by G.J.Tielemans＠dinkel.utwente.nl 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

http://squeakland.org works... but does not know /super (OOPS) -----Original Message----- From: Karl Ramberg [mailto:karl.ramberg@chello.se] Sent: maandag 1 juli 2002 19:43 To: squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: Re: squeakland swiki is down Johan Hermansson wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:58:19AM +0200, Karl Ramberg wrote: > > > I was going to look at some of the stuff at the Squeakland swiki but it > > is unreachable > > You don't think it was a local problem? Seems dead still: http://squeakland.org:8080/super >I've heard that UPC Sweden will eventually go bankrupt soon. ;) Hope not. I'll go nut's losing both my cable tv and my cable modem... Karl

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