squeakland December 2003

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Multiple projects
by Phil Firsenbaum 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

We're planning a little celebration of kids' Squeak work in about a month. I'm thinking about the logistics of this event and seem to remember that multiple projects can be opened and stored within memory so that each can be called up easily and quickly. Don't remember how it's done though. Thanks and Happy New Year to everyone on the list! Phil

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multiple texts
by ye juan 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

Hi, Happy new year! I start to develop applications in Squeak, but I am not familar with its GUI. When I put more than one pluggableTextMorph in a window, how can I confirm these different ones. For example, there are a list and three texts: one for displaying the name of a selected one in the list, one for displaying the id when the button "ID" is pressed, and another for inputting. (1)How I define the second text:(When the button "ID" is not pressed, the second text is hoped to display nothing.) idText:= PluggableTextMorph on:self text:??? accept:nil readSelection:nil menu:nil. (2) How I record the value users input in the third text: inputText:= PluggableTextMorph on:self text:??? accept:??? readSelection:nil menu:nil. Additionally, if you have any projects or codes related to such situations, please send to me. Thanks! Regards, Lulu __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Squeak vs. Python for this task on hand...
by Jeffrey McGrew 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

Hello all, I'm an Architect here in the S.F. Bay Area who has in mind a few programs I would like to create. However, I haven't done any programming in a very long time, and am pretty much starting from scratch. The programs I want to create pretty much fall into two different camps, one is taking plaintext & ODBC output from a CAD program (AutoDesk Revit) and doing various things to it, like parsing it to generate other documents, and the other is making some tools to issue commands to and generate plaintext files for Radiance, a command-line *nix rendering tool. I've been playing around with Squeak, and love how elegant and easy to learn it is. However I'm concerned, for most of what I want to do is not so UI-orientated, but more little auto-utilities and/or scripts, that will possibly become command-line utilities. The intent is for these to become stand-alone tools that people could use alongside of their CAD software. As such, I'm worried that Squeak's 'all-in-one' image approach might not be the right way to approach generating these tools, for I don't understand how one would make a stand-alone application using Squeak. I also don't know how well Squeak deals with plaintext and ODBC files that live outside of it's image. This is totally due to my general lack of knowledge, and has nothing to do with any lacking in Squeak. :) So my other thought is to learn Python; however the Architect part of me just loves Squeak, loves everything being OO and everything being able to be taken apart and modified on the fly- and the beginning programmer part loves how much is taken care of for me 'behind the scenes' leaving me to focus on the task at hand. However not understanding Squeak, and seeing that Python is already used by people to do similar tasks as the ones I'm thinking of, it makes me feel split between the two. I see that there are such things as webservers and wikis that run within Squeak, do these run 'headless' or something? Can someone more knowledgeable chime in and talk about Squeaks ability to parse and modify exterior data? Thanks all for your time, Jeffrey McGrew Designer Huntsman Architectural Group 50 California Street, Seventh Floor San Francisco, CA 94111 Phone: (415) 394-1212 Fax: (415) 394-1222 Cell: (415) 505-4689

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Squeak For a First Grader?
by Dave Lowry 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

I'd like to introduce Squeak to my six-year-old. She reads very well and enjoys mathematics games. We tried the "drive the car" activity, but the allure of controlling the car wasn't there; it was just as much fun to just use the paint tool. Could anyone suggest another activity we might try? Is six too young to Squeak? Thanks. -Dave

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Squeak For a First Grader?
by Dave Lowry 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

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[Squeakland] Crazy idea inspired by Leapster Multimedia Learning System
by Dave Bauer 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

I recently saw the Leapster handheld product from LeapFrog. I found out it runs Macromedia Flash. I had a brainstorm. What would be ideal is a similar device running Squeak. Kids could plan games on it, and if they wanted learn how the games worked and write their own. It might not be realistic but it is a fun dream. -- Dave Bauer dave(a)thedesignexperience.org http://www.thedesignexperience.org

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by Miguel At Squeakland 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Greetings, The crew here at Squeakland.org is looking for Squeak related sites to add to our ever expanding Links page. Do you have a site with great Squeak stuff on it? Do you know of a site with Squeak projects, tips and information? Send the URL to miguel(a)squeakland.org and we will see about adding it to our links page. Thanks in advance for your help! All the best, Miguel Perez "Squeak - The tool for inventing the future!" http://www.squeakland.org

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Mailing list hickup
by Michael Rueger 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Hello Squeaklanders! My sincere apologies, but we had some messages stuck in the mailing list queue and didn't find out until today. Some messages still came through, that's why we didn't notice. Cheers Michael

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Test, please ignore
by Michael Rueger 07 Dec '03

07 Dec '03

Testmail

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[ANN] Advent Calendar
by Markus Gaelli 01 Dec '03

01 Dec '03

Hi folks, I assembled a little advent calendar in Squeak. You can download the 80 MBs (!) (movies included) from: ftp://ftp.ira.uka.de/pub/squeak/ev/adventskalender.zip Thanks to Marcus Denker for providing this space. Some "doors" are in German, but most should be understandable internationally. Besides being an advent calender there is, like in most advent calendars btw., no Christian connotation. Maybe we can do a calendar for the whole year and use Seaside or projects? 365 subscribers fills one door and off we go? I think the calendar metaphor can work as a nice marketing vehicle for Squeak. This one is old (based on 2.8) and exporting the projects gave some problems so I just polished the whole thing a bit for a release. Have fun and please tell me about any problems, Markus

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