Squeak-dev June 2005

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RE: Will Wright's Spore
by Darius 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

I like how a doctor recreated schizophrenia in Second Life: http://secondlife.blogs.com/nwn/2004/09/in_the_minds_ey.html

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XML patterns
by stéphane ducasse 17 Jul '05

17 Jul '05

hi serializing a simple object in XML is simple. Now I was wondering if there are good practices to serialize and reload composed objects. For example: if I have an attribute containing a date, should I do the readFromString by hand as a postaction? if I have an attribute containing a collection, should I recreate the collection after loading? Are there mechanism where we can describe what to do for each of the document tags? May be I'm dreaming but this sounds so obvious. Stef

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RE: Making Squeak look like Windows
by Ramon Leon 15 Jul '05

15 Jul '05

Here's a few small things will make squeak feel much nicer to a windows user. uncheck Preferences > scrolling > scroolBarsNarrow, gives you fatter windows style scroll bars. check Preferences > general > duplicateControlAndAltKeys, fixes your cut, copy, paste keys. Load package from squeakMap Win32 native Fonts, huge improvement. Load package named LookEnhancements from http://squeak.saltypickle.com/, it'll make the windows look and feel better. World menu, appearance, window colors, just click white, get's rid of all the goofy colors and makes everything look more like windows, grey windows with white backgrounds. > -----Original Message----- > From: squeak-dev-bounces(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org > [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On > Behalf Of Michael van der Gulik > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:12 AM > To: squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org > Subject: Re: Making Squeak look like Windows > > Fernando wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I once saw a screenshot of Squeak that looked exactly like Windows. > > Since I'm using Squeak on Windows and switching all the > time between > > it and Dolphin, the diffrences in the GUI get in my way all > the time. > > > > How can I make it look and behave at least similar to Windows? > > > > Well, poke around with the preferences. The first thing I > always do is make sure that the right mouse button shows > context menus, and the middle mouse button shows the Morph halos. > > There was once a project called "Zurgle" which looked much > like Windows XP. I suspect you'll need an old 3.4 image to > run it though. > > Otherwise, if you're a Smalltalker then maybe you could > contribute code that makes Squeak look like Windows :-). > > Michael. > > >

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Janitors Task 2 Starts Tomorrow (June 28th, 2005)
by Ken Causey 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

As of yet I've had no volunteers for the short term project as outlined at http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?8:mss:226:flgmdanlkej… and solicited at http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2005-June/092498.html Nevertheless I think it's time to get started and so I will start on this myself as of tomorrow. Hopefully someone will come and help me eventually. hint, hint... Ken

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www.squeak.org finally updated
by goran＠krampe.se 09 Jul '05

09 Jul '05

Hi folks! Just edited www.squeak.org a bit (fixed some stuff that simply is outdated) and most importantly went over the download page with the 3.8 release and some new links (Master unix and win32 site for example). Also, Tim, the first link on your master site below is barfed: http://www.rowledge.org/tim/squeak/RISCOSSqueak.html People, please look over the download page and report if there are any things that are wrong. Also modified the links so that the primary download URLs are "ftp://ftp.squeak.org/...". And yeah, if anyone wants to set up a mirror then check out: ftp://ftp.squeak.org/MIRRORING.txt ..and report back if you actually do set one up (so that we can link to it). regards, Göran

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New book finally out...
by Stéphane Ducasse 09 Jul '05

09 Jul '05

Hi Finally the book is out.... I still does not have it in my hands but soon :). Some of you already got it. Have fun Stef Here is the previous announce I sent around. Hi If you are a parent, an educator or a programmer having kids this is for you! After 4 years of work, my new book "Squeak: Learn programming with Robots" will be out soon http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/botsinc/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1590594916/ qid=1117218524/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-5642974-5143261?v=glance&s=books With Bots Inc you will learn how to program robots in an interactive environment. Bots Inc proposes three teaching approaches: direct command of robots, scripting robots and programming robots. The book contains 24 chapters going step by step over topics with a lot of examples. Bots Inc is fun but it is not a toy, it teaches you 100% real programming in Smalltalk: a pure object-oriented programming language that has been copied by Java. Bots Inc is built on top of the rich open-source multimedia Squeak environment that you can also discover. My goal is to explain key elementary programming concepts (such as loops, abstraction, composition, and conditionals) to novices of all ages. I believe that learning by experimenting and solving problems with fun is central to human knowledge acquisition. Therefore, I have presented programming concepts through simple but not trivial problems such as drawing golden rectangles or simulating animal behavior. The ideal reader I have in mind is an individual who wants to have fun programming. This person may be a teenager or an adult, a schoolteacher, or somebody teaching programming to children in some other organization. Such an individual does not have to be fluent in programming in any language. As a father of two young boys I also wrote this book for all the parents that want to have fun programming with their kids in a powerful interactive environment. Programming in Smalltalk is an interactive, fun but deep experience. Testimonies "I am using the version of the book on your web site to teach my oldest daughter Becca some programming. She absolutely loves it. We are doing the Bot graphics right. My other kids are showing interest as well. My Fall semester schedule leaves me with almost no time free but in the Spring I hope to bring Squeak and your book to our elementary school's "gifted" program." C. David Shaffer "I'm using the Bot Lab environment for three years and found it really valuable in teaching computer science concepts for a young audience (and even less young !). The bots commanded through balloon (as in comic strips) is a very nice introduction for young children, and when this aspect is well understood, you can use the Bot Workspace to teach the notion of script, a first step in programming languages. The Micro Browser allows children to add new behavior for their bots, and have fun with their creation. This three-layers tool - Balloon, Micro Workspace, Micro Browser - offers to the teacher a fun way to introduce gently the basis of object-oriented programming concepts. With Bots Inc, learning is playing ! ;-)" Samir Saidani - University of Caen - France "I recently started a course with 7th-graders (age about 13 years) with Stephane's book --- they love it. They all know about syntactic issues from maths --- in a way they know that an expression in a formal language must be well formed. So they easily grasp the fact such as "there must be a colon after the message-name if an argument follows". Of cause they don't really read the error-messages, they just see "there must be some error" and they remember the simple rules. Don't underestimate Smalltalk --- it's easy understandable because it has a simple and straight-forward design." Klaus Fuller - Germany Have fun... Stef 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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RE: Making Squeak look like Windows
by Ramon Leon 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

Preferences is on the tools flap on the right hand side, you're looking in the wrong place. > -----Original Message----- > From: squeak-dev-bounces(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org > [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On > Behalf Of Blake > Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 4:29 PM > To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list > Subject: Re: Making Squeak look like Windows > > On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:10:52 -0700, Ramon Leon > <rleon(a)insario.com> wrote: > > > Here's a few small things will make squeak feel much nicer to a > > windows user. > > > > uncheck Preferences > scrolling > scroolBarsNarrow, gives > you fatter > > windows style scroll bars. > > When I right-click on Squeak and select Personalize, I get a > browser window that says "Preferences class personalizeUserMenu:". > > No error message. Just a code window of some sort. Clean 3.8 > freshly downloaded from Squeak.org. > > Does anyone else think the size of the forward and back > buttons on the "gentle" introduction are perversely small? > >

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[PDA] Squeak on WinCe
by Guillaume GRONDIN 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

Hi ! I'm a new smalltalk user. And I'm interested in using squeak on my pda. I use the WinCE version of the Squeak VM that is on hoshima's page (thanks): SqueakVM-alpha6-030206-PPC2002-ARM.zip <http://www.is.titech.ac.jp/%7Eohshima/squeak/WinCE/030206/SqueakVM-alpha6-0…> I've heard there was a problem when trying to use a large image like the full 3.7. So I've downloaded the sources of the VM at http://www.is.titech.ac.jp/%7Eohshima/squeak/WinCE/030206/Squeak3.1alpha6-0… But I didn't achieve the compilation. My goal is to change de max allocated memory, in the file sqWinCeMem.c there is : // I've never seen it managed to get more than 13MB memory. memSize = min(memSize, (12*1024*1024)); So if anyone succeed in compiling the VM, tell me how to do so, in order to use large image files. Thanks. -- Guillaume Grondin =========================================== Elève-Chercheur en Informatique Département GIP, Ecole des Mines de Douai 941, rue Charles Bourseul BP 10838 - 59508 Douai Cedex Tél : (+33) (0) 3 27 71 24 53 Fax : (+33) (0) 3 27 71 29 17 Email: grondin(a)ensm-douai.fr

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[BUG] VMMaker/M17N/OSProcess issue
by Daniel Vainsencher 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

In a 3.9a-Packages image, I installed VMMaker, installed OSProcess, tried to generate the plugin, and got an error in MessageNode>>asTranslatorNode. This worked after I changed sel _ (selector isSymbol) ifTrue: [selector] ifFalse: [selector key]. into: sel _ (selector isMemberOf: Symbol) ifTrue: [selector] ifFalse: [selector key]. I would guess that selector was a ByteSymbol, instead of the expected Symbol, because of the internationalization changes. BTW, VMMaker does not have a category in Mantis. BTW, I'd send a patch, but OSProcessPlugin inconveniently installs itself in a VMMaker category. Daniel Vainsencher

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Making Squeak look like Windows
by Fernando 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

Hi, I once saw a screenshot of Squeak that looked exactly like Windows. Since I'm using Squeak on Windows and switching all the time between it and Dolphin, the diffrences in the GUI get in my way all the time. How can I make it look and behave at least similar to Windows? Thanks

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