Squeak-dev September 2007

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Searching the image for text
by Jimmie Houchin 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Hello, I have always wanted the ability to sometimes just search the image for a string of text. Just like I would in an OS per se. I might see a morph that has some text in it and I want to know the code from whence it came. Or any other number of reasons. Is there a way to do this? As Squeak is OS like in many ways, it seems like this would be there. Any wisdom greatly appreciated. Jimmie

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Re: Smalltalk Publicity
by Michael Davies 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

On 30/09/2007, Alan Lovejoy <squeak-dev.sourcery(a)forum-mail.net> wrote: > As of this moment, my primer/tutorial on Smalltalk ("Smalltalk: Getting > the Message") is on del.icio.us' Hotlist--which means its on the front > page of http://del.icio.us/ (5th article from the top.) [ref: > http://www.chronos-st.org/Smalltalk-Getting-the-Message.html]. That > means it's getting substantial exposure. > Thanks for the heads-up Alan. All, Ron's link to his news item at news.squeak.org is still in the 'new' page at programming.reddit.com. A few more votes will help keep it on that page for a while longer, and that generally gets us lots of new readers. Vote at http://programming.reddit.com/info/2uxjt/comments Cheers, Michael

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object modeling
by Jimmie Houchin 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

Hello, Just wanting some general wisdom on object modeling. I am creating a person object for a website I am building. Inside this person there is much data desired/required. Some of it very simple but I could easily see an explosion of instance variables. My naive instinct is to create/model other objects even if very small to satisfy the needs. example: instead of instance variables: dateOfBirth placeOfBirthCity placeOfBirthState yearOfBirthPublic ... I would create a class/object for BirthInformation with those variables and in my person object have a birthInfo variable. Is this a correct way to do this in Squeak or am I off base? I have lots of such types of data. Any wisdom greatly appreciated. Thanks. Jimmie

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Re: Smalltalk Publicity
by Klaus D. Witzel 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

dugg! On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:24:44 +0200, Alan Lovejoy wrote: > As of this moment, my primer/tutorial on Smalltalk ("Smalltalk: Getting > the Message") is on del.icio.us' Hotlist--which means its on the front > page of http://del.icio.us/ (5th article from the top.) [ref: > http://www.chronos-st.org/Smalltalk-Getting-the-Message.html]. That > means it's getting substantial exposure. This may be a sign that > interest in Smalltalk is rising. If so, we need to do whatever we can to > nurture it. Such chances don't come often, and seldom more than once. > > "Squeak by Example" is yet another opportunity to get significant > attention focused on Smalltalk. I hope "Squeak by Example" gets > Slashdotted. > > Adding both "Squeak by Example" and "Smalltalk: Getting the Message" to > your del.icio.us bookmarks, and voting for them on dzone.com, reddit.com > and digg.com would help increase the "buzz" for Smalltalk. And that > would be a good thing. > > "Squeak by Example" > dzone.com: http://www.dzone.com/rsslinks/squeak_by_example_2.html > reddit.com: http://programming.reddit.com/info/2pcu2/comments > digg.com: http://www.digg.com/software/Squeak_by_Example_Lulu_com > > "Smalltalk: Getting the Message" > dzone.com: > http://www.dzone.com/links/smalltalk_getting_the_messagethe_essentials_of_m… > reddit.com: http://programming.reddit.com/info/2sw3l/comments > digg.com: http://digg.com/programming/Smalltalk_Getting_The_Message > > --Alan > >

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Unable to load Telnet from SqueakMap in 10beta.7148
by Robert Withers 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

I am trying to load Telnet to use as a front-end to SSH. This is a cs file. It will not load as the MultiByteFileStream, using a UTF8Converter is complaining that the input is malformed. This is ridiculous.

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Re: Smalltalk Publicity
by Paolo Bonzini 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

Alan Lovejoy wrote: > As of this moment, my primer/tutorial on Smalltalk ("Smalltalk: Getting > the Message") is on del.icio.us' Hotlist--which means its on the front > page of http://del.icio.us/ (5th article from the top.) [ref: > http://www.chronos-st.org/Smalltalk-Getting-the-Message.html]. That > means it's getting substantial exposure. > This may be a sign that interest in Smalltalk is rising. If so, we need > to do whatever we can to nurture it. Such chances don't come often, and > seldom more than once. For the record, GNU Smalltalk's new site at http://smalltalk.gnu.org/ also hit reddit.com's first place for a few hours last week (thanks to Janko for signaling it). That's good. Paolo

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Re: Smalltalk Publicity
by Peter William Lount 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

Hi, I'm willing as the editor of Smalltalk.org to post ANY positive articles regarding Smalltalk. Please submit what you want published. Please submit what you want Smalltalk.org to become. I will listen intently and consider all ideas that promote Smalltalk and inventing the future, including inventing the future of information technology. If we don't speak out the typeless-luddites will generate their future unhindered. ;--) What future do you see for Smalltalk and Smalltalk-like dynamic systems? All the best, Peter William Lount peter(a)smalltalk.org Alan Lovejoy wrote: > As of this moment, my primer/tutorial on Smalltalk ("Smalltalk: > Getting the Message") is on del.icio.us' Hotlist--which means its on > the front page of http://del.icio.us/ (5th article from the top.) > [ref: http://www.chronos-st.org/Smalltalk-Getting-the-Message.html]. > That means it's getting substantial exposure. > This may be a sign that interest in Smalltalk is rising. If so, we > need to do whatever we can to nurture it. Such chances don't come > often, and seldom more than once. > > "Squeak by Example" is yet another opportunity to get significant > attention focused on Smalltalk. I hope "Squeak by Example" gets > Slashdotted. > > Adding both "Squeak by Example" and "Smalltalk: Getting the Message" > to your del.icio.us bookmarks, and voting for them on dzone.com, > reddit.com and digg.com would help increase the "buzz" for Smalltalk. > And that would be a good thing. > > "Squeak by Example" > dzone.com: http://www.dzone.com/rsslinks/squeak_by_example_2.html > reddit.com: http://programming.reddit.com/info/2pcu2/comments > digg.com: http://www.digg.com/software/Squeak_by_Example_Lulu_com > > "Smalltalk: Getting the Message" > dzone.com: > http://www.dzone.com/links/smalltalk_getting_the_messagethe_essentials_of_m… > > reddit.com: http://programming.reddit.com/info/2sw3l/comments > digg.com: http://digg.com/programming/Smalltalk_Getting_The_Message > > --Alan > >

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Smalltalk Publicity
by Alan Lovejoy 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

As of this moment, my primer/tutorial on Smalltalk ("Smalltalk: Getting the Message") is on del.icio.us' Hotlist--which means its on the front page of http://del.icio.us/ (5th article from the top.) [ref: http://www.chronos-st.org/Smalltalk-Getting-the-Message.html]. That means it's getting substantial exposure. This may be a sign that interest in Smalltalk is rising. If so, we need to do whatever we can to nurture it. Such chances don't come often, and seldom more than once. "Squeak by Example" is yet another opportunity to get significant attention focused on Smalltalk. I hope "Squeak by Example" gets Slashdotted. Adding both "Squeak by Example" and "Smalltalk: Getting the Message" to your del.icio.us bookmarks, and voting for them on dzone.com, reddit.com and digg.com would help increase the "buzz" for Smalltalk. And that would be a good thing. "Squeak by Example" dzone.com: http://www.dzone.com/rsslinks/squeak_by_example_2.html reddit.com: http://programming.reddit.com/info/2pcu2/comments digg.com: http://www.digg.com/software/Squeak_by_Example_Lulu_com "Smalltalk: Getting the Message" dzone.com: http://www.dzone.com/links/smalltalk_getting_the_messagethe_essentials_of_m… reddit.com: http://programming.reddit.com/info/2sw3l/comments digg.com: http://digg.com/programming/Smalltalk_Getting_The_Message --Alan

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[BUG] instances of BDFFontReader do not initialize
by Robert Withers 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

I found this when loading and running Telnet, which defines a Font. It turns out that there is an implementation of BDFFontReader class>>#new ^ self basicNew This avoids calling BDFFontReader>>#initialize which needs to init a properties dictionary. I added the call to initialize to get the code working, but this may not be the best solution. It may be best to remove #new. I'll leave it to others judgement, but hopefully this is enough to be captured as a bug.

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Fwd: [sbe] First reader :)
by stephane ducasse 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

:) Begin forwarded message: > From: Damien Pollet <damien.pollet(a)lu.unisi.ch> > Date: 13 septembre 2007 18:59:13 HAEC > To: Squeak By Example <sbe(a)iam.unibe.ch> > Subject: [sbe] First reader :) > Reply-To: sbe(a)iam.unibe.ch > > 18:41 -!- The_Linux_Lich [n=The_Linu(a)200.143.141.100] has joined > #squeak > 18:43 < The_Linux_Lich> "Hi!" > 18:44 < sig__> yo > 18:46 < The_Linux_Lich> It´s the first instruction by "Squeak by > Example" > 18:46 < The_Linux_Lich> hehehehehhe > 18:46 < sig__> to join IRC? > 18:47 < The_Linux_Lich> yeah > 18:48 < The_Linux_Lich> page 11 > 18:48 < gcorriga> good to know. > 18:48 < gcorriga> cdlm: you here? > 18:49 < The_Linux_Lich> ahuahuuhahuauha > 18:49 < cdlm> yup > 18:49 < gcorriga> cdlm: you have a reader. > 18:50 < cdlm> \o/ > 18:50 < cdlm> hi The_Linux_Lich :D > 18:52 < cdlm> The_Linux_Lich: I'm Damien Pollet > 18:53 < The_Linux_Lich> cdlm, ohhh cool > 18:54 < The_Linux_Lich> cdlm, 10 minutes ago I was tempted to start > learning by your book > 18:55 < The_Linux_Lich> I don´t know nothing about Smalltalk > > -- Damien Pollet > type less, do more [ | ] http://people.untyped.org/damien.pollet > > > > > _______________________________________________ > sbe mailing list > sbe(a)iam.unibe.ch > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/sbe >

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