Squeak-dev November 2005

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[ANN] SqueakLight status
by Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

People who could have interest on Small Images I actualize http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3935 So now the gizmo is smaller (4.8Mb) and powerful what never before, having some of MorphicWrappers built inside. I wish thanks special this time Francisco Garau last port of original work by Luciano Notarfrancesco and Gerardo Richarte. Edgar ___________________________________________________________ 1GB gratis, Antivirus y Antispam Correo Yahoo!, el mejor correo web del mundo http://correo.yahoo.com.ar

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[BUG] SM2 Burps after loading Breakpoint support or ColorDevTools
by Thomas A Petersen 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Herman, Goran, et. al, I don't think your Jacaranda script is the problem. I tried the same exercise from a clean 3.7 5566 image and loading SM2 Loader first thing. I get the same crash with Breakpoint Support and ColorDevTools. Checking the change sorter shows that things are installed. There appears to be something going on as SM2 finishes things. Goran, Oh Great Sage of SM.... Can you enlihton us? Thanks much, tap P.S. Here's the debug log. Could this be a side effect of the translation stuff?? ----------------------------------------------------- MessageNotUnderstood: Character>>first 1 December 2003 3:22:52 pm VM: Win32 - Squeak3.5 of '11 April 2003' [latest update: #5180] Image: Squeak3.7alpha [latest update: #5566] Character(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #first Receiver: $5 Arguments and temporary variables: aMessage: a Message with selector: #first and arguments: #() Receiver's instance variables: value: 53 SMSqueakMap>>installedVersionOf: Receiver: a SMSqueakMap Arguments and temporary variables: aPackage: SMPackage[Breakpoint Support] Receiver's instance variables: packages: a Dictionary(an UUID ('010894c3-0b8a-47fc-8deb-7c08996bfa71')->SMPackage[OSProcessPlugin] an UUID('017b1882-9376-4bf7-b...etc... accounts: a Dictionary(an UUID ('034ab782-a939-de49-976c-b009701b4406')->SMAccount[Todd Blanchard] an UUID ('035d2bda-c301-6049-b...etc... objects: a Dictionary(an UUID ('007e8c1c-02fa-45fc-97be-7ea4d2f67134')->SMCategory: Package group an UUID ('008c9940-4caf-ac49-a...etc... categories: nil dir: 'sm' transactionCounter: 3011 firstTransactionNumber: 2929 daysBacklog: 182 adminPassword: nil installedPackages: a Dictionary(an UUID ('07469ced-289a-4b6f-bd17-27ec567e681a')->'1.25' an UUID ('1200100f-1a95-...etc... installCounter: nil fileCache: a SMFileCache users: nil --- The full stack --- Character(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #first -----------------------------------------------------

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[ANN] SoapCore 0.8 is now on SqueakMap
by Masashi UMEZAWA 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Hi, SoapCore 0.8 has been released on SqueakMap. http://map1.squeakfoundation.org/sm/package/dab9b621-00d2-41c3-966c-458bf62… New features: - M17N support - You can send/receive WideString. - Literal encoding support (client only). - Utility methods for registering services quickly. - New translation example - you can translate many languages via SOAP. Some docs are available at: http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~umejava/smalltalk/soapOpera/soapCore.html Sample services are running at: http://swikis.ddo.jp/umejava/4 Enjoy! --- [:masashi | ^umezawa]

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[FIX] Explore
by Stéphane Ducasse 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Hi adrian the fix for the broken explore: is: explore: anObject "Open an explorer on the given object." self default ifNil:[^self inform: 'Cannot explore - no ToolSet present']. ^default explore: anObject I will publish it on the repository and update the script loader. Stef

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Some Sensor refactorings ?
by Serge Stinckwich 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Hi all, i started to look at the Sensor stuff. I have two questions : - there is two classes : EventSensor and InputSensor. The first one seems to be a replacement of the last one. Do we really need two classes or could we try to merge both ? - there is an EventSensorConstants shared pool with several constants used only by the EventSensor class. Is this class realy needed or we could move the constants as class variables in the EventSensor class ? What are your opinions about this ? -- oooo Dr. Serge Stinckwich OOOOOOOO Université de Caen>CNRS UMR 6072>GREYC>MAD OOESUGOO http://purl.org/net/SergeStinckwich oooooo Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)] \ / ##

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Squeak Test Server
by Nicolas MELIN 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

Hi ! I'm a new member of this list, and I'm new to Smalltalk and Squeak. I'm a French student, doing a Master in Information Systems Engineering, and I've been learning Smalltalk for 6 weeks. One of my courses implies the realization of an "industrial project", and I chose the development of a test server for Squeak. This project is managed by Stéphane Ducasse, and the second student involved is Grégory Lazareth. Our goal is to create a test server displaying the test results using Seaside. The test process would be : - take a Squeak image - load packages from a list - run the packages' tests and save the results - display the results using Seaside Do you have any ideas or suggestions to improve the test process/the project ? At the moment, I'm learning from the Testserver Image Tester package and SUnit.

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Election Team November Report
by Brent Vukmer 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

OK, I'm sliding in just before the deadline here :) During November I recruited folks for the Election Team. The team is currently: Benjamin Pollack Lex Spoon Masashi Umewaza Daniel Vainsencher I think this represents a good mix of folks from the community. I'd also like to have at least one person on the team who's active in the creative/multimedia/learning-play side of Squeak. Let me or one of the other team members know if you have someone like that to recommend. Also in November I kicked off our activity on the Election Team mailing list (http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/elections) with the following goals: - in the short term, figuring out how this team should choose candidates for guide/coordinator - in the long term, coming up with a means for the community to choose candidates You don't have to be a member of the team to join the list and participate in the discussion; I'd like as much input as I can get, from as wide a variety of interested Squeakers as possible. Thanks, Brent

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[JOB] Smalltalker wanted
by Colin Putney 30 Nov '05

30 Nov '05

Hi folks, The development group I work with at Micromuse (see micromuse.com) has an opening for a Senior Engineer. We write the back end for Proviso, which is software for managing the performance of the really large networks that telecom carriers have. It's a scalable, distributed system for gathering and processing network statistics and loading them into a database for reporting. It's written almost entirely in VisualWorks. It sounds like a pretty dull application, but there are some pretty cool aspects to it. We have a complete Javascript runtime in the project, and export parts of the internal object model to the JS environment for scripting. There are development tools as well - debuggers, inspectors etc for Javascript objects. Performance and scalability are big issues, and so we do a lot of work based on database research - distributed datastructures, stream processing, query optmization, load balancing, etc. This is also a good team to work with - all of them strong coders with lots of Smalltalk experience. We do a lot of agile-style development, although we're not wedded to XP, Scrum or the like in particular. Being on-site would be a plus, but we'd consider remote work. Here's what we're looking for in a candidate. Essential: o Solid experience with dynamic languages o Experience in an Agile and Test Driven Development environment o Development targeted for UNIX platforms (e.g. Solaris, AIX, Linux) o Good understanding of RDBMS technology (esp. SQL) Bonus points for experience with: o Stream Processing o Query Processing and Optimization o Compiler Development o Performance Modeling Nice to have: o Network Performance Management (e.g. SNMP) o Distributed Systems Development o Server Development This job is posted on Monster: <http://jobsearch.monster.com/ getjob.asp?JobID=36134657&AVSDM=2005%2D11%2D07+10%3A53% 3A30&Logo=1&q=Smalltalk+Micromuse&cy=us>, so interested candidates can apply there, or send a resume and cover letter directly to our HR department: Bill Paliwoda <bpaliwod(a)micromuse.com> Cheers, Colin

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what's the right tool for text file templates?
by Larry White 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

I want to be able to read a text file and have it programmatically perform substitution on some of the text. The requirement is for something akin to "smalltalk server pages" although this isn't for a web app. I just want to be able to read a file containing the text "Hello, <%name%>. Welcome to my world." and have it return as a string "Hello, Joe. Welcome to my world." Is this functionality available in squeak somewhere, perhaps as part of a web server framework? thanks.

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Re: Newbie Question on Text Input
by Donald Major 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

You might want to look at PluggableTextMorph, and its use in the PDA class. I'm not sure this is the right way to do it, but it IS a way to do what I think you're asking for. Roger McDermott wrote: > Hi > > > > I’ve just joined this list and I have a question regarding getting input > into Squeak. I would say at the outset that I am a novice programmer > (although I have used some Smalltalk before and know a little Java) so I > apologise if this is a bit basic. > > > > I appreciate that one can use the Transcript window to give simple > screen output from code run in the Workspace but is there a similar > (ready-made) window that can be used to get input? > > > > In one of the Java packages that I use there is a class called a > ConsoleWindow which allows input and output in the same window, e.g. > > > > ConsoleWindow c = new ConsoleWindow(); > > c.out.println("Please input an integer"); > > myInteger = c.input.readInt(); > > c.out.println("Your integer times two is" + 2 * myInteger); > > > > In private emails, Ken Rose pointed towards the Workspace window (but > unfortunately I am not adept enough to get that to work in the way I > want) and Stephane Ducasse gave me the following code snippet > > > > | res | > > res := FillInTheBlank request: 'please enter a number'. > > res asNumber. > > > > which does allow things to be input but the FillInTheBlank object > disappears as soon as you enter a number. I’m sure that there is a very > simple way of doing this but, at present, it is still unclear to me. > > > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > > > Roger McDermott > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >

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