Squeak-dev June 2008

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Linux and ttyUSB0
by Jon Hylands 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

Hi everyone, On my current robotics project, I'm using a gumstix verdex to talk over a USB to serial converter chip (FT232) to a serial bus. My brother Dave made up a new kernel driver for the gumstix, and when I plug in the chip it registers itself as ttyUSB0. For work I've done previously on Squeak on the gumstix, I've used standard serial ports, which map to ttyS0, ttyS1, ttyS2, etc, which correspond to port 0, 1, and 2 when I open the Serial Port in Squeak. However, I have no idea which port number ttyUSB0 corresponds to... Anyone got any idea? Thanks, Jon -------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Hylands Jon(a)huv.com http://www.huv.com/jon Project: Micro Raptor (Small Biped Velociraptor Robot) http://www.huv.com/blog

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Cleaning up lava code and unsent messages.
by Jerome Peace 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

Cleaning up lava code and unsent messages. Hi all, This was an after thought from my previous post. It deserved its own topic. Lava code is code left over from historical times which has no use in the current image and yet no one is willing to take responsiblity for removing it. For the record squeak has historically had about one sixth of its messages as unsent methods. Some of which is lava code others of which are examples, probes, utilities and tests. It would be nice to clean things up so there are no unsent messages. This could be done simply by creating a (pseudo-recursive) message #legitamatelyUnsentMethods (one method say for each class.) That sends for any legitimate examples, etc. Then anything that shows up as unsent would be illegitamate and removeable. >From time to time you would look at the implementors of the legitamatelyUnsentMethods to clean out what no longer belongs. a legitamatelyUnsentMethods method would be packagable if care were take that it mentions only the unsent methods of that package. My proposal is that package maintainers should take the responsibility for doing this in their own packages and the release team should reject any code that contains unsent messages. An Sunit test could be provided to check. I am also hoping to recruit those who would be willing to sort out the unsent messages in core packages and either write legitamatelyUnsentMethods methods for them or flag them as lava code for removal. It is a good way to gain an insight into a lot of squeak code while helping the community. If this task appeals to you please start it by planting a seed on mantis. Yours in service and curiosity, --Jeorme Peace ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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[ANN] Euro 2008 Betting! 24 hours left!
by Göran Krampe 10 Nov '08

10 Nov '08

Hi folks! (This is a reminder - perhaps folks missed my previous post so this time I added "[ANN]" - almost noone from the Squeak community have joined up and previous years quite a lot of people did.) 2 years has passed and it is time to go crazy over soccer again! The european championship is about to start in exactly 24 hours and the little betting site I built 6 years ago (in Squeak3.9/HttpView2) is once again up and running! So drop by, place the bets and join up to see how it goes. No official prizes :) are set - but who knows. IMPORTANT: You got 24 hours to bet until the group play betting game closes! There are two other betting games though that are continuous so you can join later. http://em2008.krampe.se/eng regards, Göran PS. Will post a followup later on describing how we used the translation mechanism in Squeak to make the site in both english and swedish.

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FFI and FreeTypePlus problem?
by Torsten Bergmann 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '08

I already created a bug report for this, Andreas may be able to tell you more: http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6980 As a workaround you can can use FFI-Kernel-ar6.mcz instead of FFI-Kernel-ar-8.mcz. Bye Torsten -- GMX startet ShortView.de. Hier findest Du Leute mit Deinen Interessen! Jetzt dabei sein: http://www.shortview.de/?mc=sv_ext_mf@gmx

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3.10 is done
by Ralph Johnson 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

3.10 is done. It has been stable for a long time, and Edgar was just waiting for me to write a welcome screen. I've done that, so he can make a final image. The thing that we did that I like the best is making Package Universe prominent. While not perfect, it has worked well. The thing that disappoints me the most is that there are still a few tests that are not green. It looks like a committee has formed to work on the next release, and I wish them the best. I want to thank Edgar for all the hard work he did on 3.10. He did almost all the work, and did an excellent job. -Ralph Johnson

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FFI problem: "could not coerce arguments"
by Mariano Martinez Peck 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

sorry...now it goes in English... I have a problem trying to invoke a function through FFI. I have bee using FFI y some functions with no problem but now I have "could not coerce arguments". This is the first time I have a void* parameter, so I believe that could be the problem. The function definition is: int *odbx_set_option*( odbx_t* *handle*, unsigned int *option*, void* *value* ) Here is an example that shows how to use it in C: option = ODBX_TLS_ALWAYS; if( ( err = odbx_set_option( handle, ODBX_OPT_TLS, (void*) &option ) ) < 0 ) { fprintf( stderr, "odbx_set_option(): %s\n", odbx_error( handle, err ) ); odbx_finish( handle ); return err; } This is my method that map that function with FFI: apiSetOption: handle option: anOption value: aValue "int odbx_unbind(odbx_t*)" <cdecl: long 'odbx_set_option' (ulong ulong void*) module: 'opendbx' > ^self externalCallFailed I proobed void*, void, ulong y ulong* but I had that error in all cases. Here is how my method is used: err := OpenDBX apiSetOption: self option:32 value:1. So, can someone help me? thanks, mariano

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How to make OmniBrowser use prettyprint all the time?
by askoh 16 Aug '08

16 Aug '08

I am using Squeak 3.10.1. I have set the Preferences to use prettyprint all the time but OmniBrowser does not seem to obey the preferences. I have to click the View button and manually click prettyprint every time!! How can I get it to work like Refactor Browser in 3.9? All the best, Aik-Siong Koh -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-make-OmniBrowser-use-prettyprint-all-the-time-… Sent from the Squeak - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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3.10 image
by itsme213 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

I the damien-3.10-web image size is quite large (129M) compared to a comparably (not identical) loaded 3.9 Ramon's image (42M). Is that expected, or is it because as a beta it has not been trimmed etc.? Thanks - Sophie

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Squeak News Team Report - April 2008
by Michael Davies 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

Hello All, This is your monthly News report for April 2008. The purpose of the News Team is to publish news regarding Squeak and Smalltalk development and use. It aims to provide a service to the Squeak community, highlighting anything which Squeak users may find interesting in The Weekly Squeak newszine. It will also try to promote Squeak and Smalltalk outside its own community, by submitting articles and news items to mainstream websites such as Slashdot and OSNews. We had 11,972 direct page views for the month of April, this is slightly down from March, but better than the figure for the same month last year. In total, ten articles were posted. Our top three articles were (figures includes RSS views): Free Smalltalk books - 3,780 hits http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=391 Video of Newspeak lecture now available - 3,630 hits http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=396 The Year of Smalltalk - 3,051 hits http://weeklysqueak.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=387 If you have any news that you think that others may find interesting or useful, please feel free to drop the News Team a line. If you're planning any publicity for new releases, book launches, we can work with you to co-ordinate publication. Happy Squeaking, Michael Davies Squeak News Team Leader.

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[ANN] SqueakLightII.7188 is ready
by Edgar J. De Cleene 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

I proud announce the alpha version is ready at http://ftp.squeak.org/various_images/SqueakLight/SqueakLightII.7188.zip This comes with a Welcome and Extra Bonus windows and could load some useful stuff. Off course also fun stuff ! This image could be easily updated from previous. As still evaluating which Monticello version should be in, in this saved image I stick to old trusted Ralph version of 3.10. No 7182Monticello-edc.3.sqz into, but any could go to files and load for have Monticello 1.6 beta of Matthew. >From the image you could read any news I put in the swiki http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6056 Remember, run but is alpha. And soon I back to #IRC to do Spanish hour and try to awake all. Probability grows roughly circaa 13.00 GMT :=) Edgar

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