squeakland March 2004

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Plugin does not work for me?
by Gary Frederick 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Howdy, I tried to install the Squeak plugin for Windows XP. It does not work. I tried IE 6.0, Mozilla 1.6 and Firefox 0.8. It looks like they all have the same problem. I run any of the examples and get "An error has occured: you should probably just hit 'abandon'. Sorry! with the message "Error: My subclass should have overridden one of my messages." I hit Store Error Report but did not find a file named 'SqueakDebug.log'. I hit debug and do not have a clue ;-) I think it was looking for a place to put some files FileDirectory ??? I also installed Squeak and that works. Suggestions? Gary

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[ANN] New updates and installers
by Michael Rueger 20 Mar '04

20 Mar '04

Hi Squeaklanders, there are now new installers and a bunch of updates available at squeakland. Just point your browser to http://www.squeakland.org/project.jsp?/projects/EToy-Template.001.pr to receive the updates. A quick summary (the long description is attached below, some of it quite technical though): - sounds are now selected by a pop up rather then noisily cycling through available sounds - some problems with projects linking to other projects have been fixed. It is still not as comfortable as it should be. - the show-tabs/hide-tabs button was removed from the navigator as it would hide the navigator without a chance of ever getting it back - there is now a switch language button to switch the language of the tiles. A fully translated, international version is planned for the coming summer release! - in the blue save dialog the "save to local disc" button was removed. It's purpose was rather confusing in most cases. Instead, there now always is an entry for the user folder (My Squeak or user name) in the file list, something that has been missing before, forcing people to use the save to local disc workaround. - renaming variables is back! Thanks to Yoshiki and Scott this feature is now actually working and has therefor been re-enabled. - numerous bug fixes Cheers Michael ----------------------- "Change Set: noTabsInNavBar-sw Date: 19 December 2003 Author: Scott Wallace Eliminates the show-tabs/hide-tabs button from the nav-bar" "Change Set: soundImprovements-sw Date: 24 November 2003 Author: Scott Wallace Enhancement: When the user clicks on the name of a sound on either a SoundTile or a SoundReadoutTile, a pop-up of available sounds is now presented, from whence the user can choose one. This can be faster and more direct (and quieter!) than cycling through the available sounds one by one. Note that this restores an earlier behavior that somehow got lost a couple of years ago. Bug fix: At project-save time, the user will no longer fall into an error condition if any player has a sound-valued instance variable that references a sound not currently in the sound library." "Change Set: loadFix Date: 5 January 2004 Author: Michael Rueger Fixes a problem with loading a project containing projects." "Change Set: projectOnServer-fix Date: 22 January 2004 Author: Michael Rueger Fixes a problem with linked projects on a server. The link paths still need to be hand edited though" "Change Set: hideDot-sw Date: 20 January 2004 Author: Scott Wallace Makes the Dot spend its life just off the top-left-edge of the screen." "Change Set: projectLinkFix Date: 3 February 2004 Author: Michael Rueger Fixes a problem with having projects within projects on a local file system in windows." "Change Set: fileUrlToString-ls Date: 1 June 2002 Author: Lex Spoon Fix a bug reported by Rudi Angela. The following code illustrates the problem on Windows and MacOS; there will be an extra $/ at the beginning of the URL before this changeset. | dir file | dir := ServerDirectory new fullPath: (FileDirectory default url). file := dir asServerFileNamed: 'test.txt'. Transcript show: (file fileNameRelativeTo: dir); cr. " "Change Set: prjIndexFix Date: 6 February 2004 Author: Michael Rueger Fixes some more problems with index projects." "Change Set: noLocalSave Date: 9 February 2004 Author: Michael Rueger Disable the local save button." "Change Set: modularCmdKeys-sw Date: 13 March 2003 Author: Scott Wallace Custom version for Squeakland, sw 2/23/2004. Makes the handling of desktop command keys modular. Users can modify the handling of desktop command keys in a very non-invasive way, and individual projects can define their own custom handling for desktop command keys." "Change Set: navLangButton Date: 29 February 2004 Author: Michael Rueger Adds a button to the navigator bar for switching the etoy tile language." "Change Set: movieFix Date: 1 March 2004 Author: Michael Rueger Adds the accessor moviePlayer, a change made in a later image version" "Change Set: loadProjectFix Date: 9 March 2004 Author: Michael Rueger Fixes a problem with loading projects through the world menu." "Change Set: renameVariable-yo Date: 18 January 2004 Author: Yoshiki Ohshima Make the rename variable feature work. As long as the variable is not used in textually coded scripts, the cases like it is referenced in the other player's script, multiple occurence in more than one script, etc, are solved. Some fixes and refinements by Scott Wallace, 7 March 04: • Fixed a subtle bug involving renaming a variable when a script of a different object bore a direct reference to that instance variable in a sibling object of the object in whose viewer the variable-rename is requested. • Moved the logic for deciding whether a morph is a complex watcher to UpdatingStringMorph, which is the only morph to which it applies. • Moved the idiosyncratic logic for isPlayer:ofReferencingTile: to PhraseTileMorph, the only place for which it makes sense. • Wording tweaks. • Method comment tweaks. Version 7 - sw 3/8/2004 - as per Yoshiki's suggestion, restored the warning about variable-names in textually-coded scripts not being automatically converted, for situations where at least one textually-coded script is known to exist. " "Change Set: dummyBabel-dgd Date: 18 November 2003 Author: Diego Gomez Deck <DiegoGomezDeck(a)ConsultAr.com> Adopted without change from update 5425DummyBabelFor36-dgd of Squeak 3.6. This is a dummy Babel version for Squeakland. This will allow code for Squeak 3.7 and beyond that contains babel-customizations (most frequently calls to #translated and #format:) to be used in Squeakland images. This changeset only adds methods and should not affect any existing Squeakland code. " "Change Set: findA-sw Date: 23 July 2002, 10 March 2004 Author: Scott Wallace First published as update 5043u53-findA-sw of Squeak 3.4, 23 July 2002. Consolidates the main work of six methods that service the various windows-menu 'find-a' requests (e.g. 'find a Transcript') into a single place. Adapted for Squeakland by Scott Wallace, 10 March 2004. This provides the missing underlying support required by the desktopCmdKeys regime." "Change Set: scriptNameChoices-sw Date: 21 December 2003, 11 March 2004 Author: Scott Wallace Fixes the script-name-choice popups and arrow-actions (on script-name tiles in viewers and scriptors) so that... • Choice list is now dynamically determined; thus even script-names established after the tile was created will now be offered. • The default choice on a new script-name tile is now #emptyScript (Yoshiki's suggestion), rather than an actual user-script selector which may or may not actually exist in a given player. • Script-names for scripts that have *parameters* are no longer offered in the pop-ups of script-name-valued tiles. • The tell-all commands are bulletproofed against run-time MNU errors in cases where a script of the given name does not exist in a player being sent the request. • Appropriate help-message supplied on a script-name tile." "Change Set: easterEggs-sw Date: 10 March 2004 Author: Scott Wallace • Makes the balloon help on symbol-list tiles a little more appropriate. • Makes the default names offered for launching new variables in a viewer be all of the form var1, var2, etc." "Change Set: langChgFix-sw Date: 10 March 2004 Author: Scott Wallace Fixes an error that occured when the user switched natural language (after the renameVariable update.)" "Change Set: referencesFix-sw Date: 15 March 2004 Author: Scott Wallace Fixes two occasionally seen with etoy tiles, as reported by Michael Rueger: * Sometimes no internal name in References was being handed out for an object. * Sometimes an internal name that coincided with a global was being handed out. An example scenario for recreating one of the bugs: * Get a Slider * Rename it to Slider (sic!) * Now refer to that object in the script of another object. * The code in that script will be bound to the global 'Slider' object (a class) because a name registered in the References table was not handed out for this object." "Change Set: varName-sw Date: 16 March 2004 Author: Scott Wallace In the add-inst-var dialog, offer as the default a varxxx identifier where xxx is a number one larger than the number of inst vars the object currently has."

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Re: 1. Help me, Advanced Squeakers. (luis ACEVEDO)
by Shelagh Manton 18 Mar '04

18 Mar '04

> > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 02:50:13 +0000 > From: "luis ACEVEDO" <patitoacevedo(a)hotmail.com> > Subject: [Squeakland] Help me, Advanced Squeakers. > To: squeakland(a)squeakland.org > Message-ID: <BAY15-F8RyZx4L28t8Y00000bf5(a)hotmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi: > My name is Patricio Acevedo, from Chile and need a little help about > Alice, the 3D world. > Working with the texture of the actors, the first time that executes the > tutorial of the fish 3D all work well, but never more. The problem is > the painter doesn't appear when I press the respective halo, to the > center of the object but rather directly it goes out the tip of the paint > with a set blue color I thing that should have some command that allows > me to assign these values but i can´t found.Thanks to who can help me. If > my syntax is not correct excuse me , but my English is basic and I am > writing with a translate. Thanks another time... Bye > I have to agree with you Patricio, I am just new and could not get the 3D fish to appear. The white halo button works insofar as the brush paints a shape, but then when it is supposed to magically change into a 3D shape I get a problem in one of the array classes not understanding the message. Maybe there is an upgraded set of classes to go with the Wonderland class that we need. Where can we get it? Shelagh

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Re: Help on mouse buttons
by Shelagh Manton 18 Mar '04

18 Mar '04

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 12:00:17 -0800, <squeakland-request(a)squeakland.org> wrote: > 6. Re: My last message appears to have disappeared. > (Bert Freudenberg) Thankyou Bert, Probably should 've realised the info was already on the swiki. Of course the few times I've been on there I get so side-tracked with all the interesting stuff, I forget why I went on it. However, I was able to gain a measure of control over the blue and yellow buttons. Shelagh

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Help me, Advanced Squeakers.
by luis ACEVEDO 17 Mar '04

17 Mar '04

Hi: My name is Patricio Acevedo, from Chile and need a little help about Alice, the 3D world. Working with the texture of the actors, the first time that executes the tutorial of the fish 3D all work well, but never more. The problem is the painter doesn't appear when I press the respective halo, to the center of the object but rather directly it goes out the tip of the paint with a set blue color I thing that should have some command that allows me to assign these values but i can´t found.Thanks to who can help me. If my syntax is not correct excuse me , but my English is basic and I am writing with a translate. Thanks another time... Bye _________________________________________________________________ Consigue aquí las mejores y mas recientes ofertas de trabajo en América Latina y USA: http://latam.msn.com/empleos/

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To Lipsync a squeak with Squeak
by Thomas Oeding 16 Mar '04

16 Mar '04

Forward for: "gunnar jutelius" <gunnarjutelius(a)hotmail.com> Hallo! It is possible to do lipsync with Squeak? I think that is needed if you want to use Squek to build a democratic world. Squeak is a good beginning for schoolchildren to learn programming. But what is the continuation? The programming must be used in a democratic context or it doesn´t bother you? To me it is the real thing - democracy. Soon we all have 3G mobiles filled with stuff from the media giants. And on a phone there is SOUND. And if you want to do animations with sound to tell a story. You must have lipsync. So can you lipsync a squeak with Squeak? To learn to lipsync in 3D on the web. I have made a tutorial for you and the kids. I think if you are over twelve years old you will manage it with a little help. Here you find the tutorial and the material you need to begin to experiment with lipsync: http://medieskolan.avc.edu.stockholm.se/axel/index.htm Then you and the kids - we all can be our own Disneys - or something much better - e.g. discussing what to do with our common gencode. It is 7 million years old and is used the year 2004 of 6000 million people. Now some of us are experimenting with our common heritage. I think this needs a little discussion. Perhaps a little lipsynced squeak can help? :=) Gunnar _________________________________________________________________ Chat: Ha en fest på Habbo Hotel http://habbohotel.msn.se/habbo/sv/channelizer Checka in här!

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My last message appears to have disappeared.
by Shelagh Manton 16 Mar '04

16 Mar '04

My last message appears to have disappeared. Probably just as well. I am having trouble with my mouse button settings and halo. I wanted to use squeak map and load one of the packages that sound so intriging. However, when I follow instructions on how to download the package, (first left click on choice and then right click) I just keep getting a holo as if I wanted to inspect the package loader pane. I know that there are a number of options to change how the halo works and how the mouse is mapped, but I feel very nervous about changing things. Could somebody give me a couple of pointers? Shelagh -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

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etoys in new york school
by Karl Ramberg 14 Mar '04

14 Mar '04

Looks like a interesting presentation: The NYSTUG has a fascinating meeting coming up - a fifth grade teacher in New York is going to talk about how he uses Squeak (EToys) to teach programming at the elementary level: Please join us for our next meeting to be held Wed March 31st Read more at this link: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&entry=325662… karl

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another "Squeak Event" in NYC!
by Kim Rose 14 Mar '04

14 Mar '04

Dear Squeaklanders, I am passing this annoucement along from NYC colleagues -- you are most welcome to attend! Hope you can make it... cheers, Kim ============================================================= Squeak in NYC Schools Please join us for our next meeting to be held Wed. 31st Presenter's Bio: Seth Orbach is Director of Academic Technology at St. Bernard's School in New York City. He has a B.A. in Architecture from Yale College and a M.A. in Mathematics Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. He first began teaching Squeak to fifth graders at Trevor Day School several years ago after hearing Alan Kay speak at the NYSAIS Conference on Information Technology in November of 2001. Presentation Abstract: "E-Toys is a version of Squeak designed for use with school-aged children. I will present some of the introductory lessons that I use with students, some of the more advanced challenges, and examples of student work from my 3 years of teaching with this tool. I will also discuss and demonstrate the pedagogy used in my constructivist classrooms." Details: Date: March 31st, 2004 Location: Suite LLC offices Address: 440 9th Avenue, 8th Floor Time: 6:30pm to 7:00pm -- Open house 7:00to 8:30 pm -- Squeak in NYC presentation. Directions: Take E or C train to 34th (Penn Station) walk to corner of 34th and 8th. Walk up one block to 9th. RSVP is requested. Please send mail to: charles(a)ocit.com with subject line of: NYC Smalltalk March 31st 2004. Our meetings are opened to the general public. Invite a friend ! To join our mailing list simply send mail to: nycsmalltalk-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com Joining our list will give members access to all of the presentations and articles maintained on our site. Any questions send mail to: charles(a)ocit.com Hope to see all you there, Charles

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How do you stop the halo appearing in Package loader?
by Shelagh Manton 14 Mar '04

14 Mar '04

At the moment I am at the exploring stage of Squeak. I've read pages on the Swiki. I've saved the image to include projects I'm interested in exploring. I've become familiar with project downloaded that won't load because of some unknown clas or method. (I just leave these ones alone!) But recently I've become determined to sort out the package loader. I went to the page on the swiki which describes how easy it is to download and install new packages. Huh! Maybe, if the halo didn't always intrude when I right click. Obviously I have some setting wrong with my mouse or something. Can somebody give me some advice on this? 1) first I start the package loader 2) I left click the package I'm interested in. It is highlighted. 3) I right click the hightlighted package and the halo appears. I Control- right click and the halos appears around the package loader picture. I alt- right click and the halo appears. I control-left click and the halo appears. I alt-left click and guess what? the halo appears. I am frightened to try other buttons because I am just that sort of person. Tho' I think I tried alt-X and alt-z. 4)Then I decide I need halp with this. Shelagh -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

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