squeakland September 2004

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animation, holder
by Randy Heiland 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Hi Squeakers! I just went to Squeakland, downloaded updates, and was experimenting with creating a simple animation - per the "Powerful Ideas..." book and Squeakfest tutorial. It seems there is no longer a "Holder's playerAtCursor" tile in a Holder's viewer. Is that true? What do I do? I was pleased to see that dropping frames into the Holder is no longer plagued with the annoying problem of having to put the cursor in "just the right position". In fact, it seems that the behavior of a Holder is more dynamic than what I remember from Squeakfest, in that it resizes according to how many frames you drop in and allows for easy rearranging of frames - or maybe those features were already there and I didn't realize it. Although I didn't really push it, I'm wondering, if I drop in so many frames that the Holder exceeds the size of my world/screen, will the Holder automatically reveal scrollbars? (It would be nice :) Thanks, Randy

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[Squeakland] Re: [ENH][FIX]Comma operator to Etoy strings v2 ( [update - 0] )
by Yoshiki Ohshima 23 Sep '04

23 Sep '04

> I moved this change in the unstable stream even if there were two > conflicts, but it seems to me that the code was equivalent. > Could you check the two following methods: > Checking extendableText6-kfr.cs (#5963) for method conflicts with > changesets after The Worlds of Squeak ... > ...checking TextMorph>>getFirstCharacter > CONFLICT found for TextMorph class>>getFirstCharacter with newer > changesets 6012-1016nonASCIIs 6056-40236firstLastChar I don't know the algorithm of the conflict checker, but these are equivalent but in different encoding. In the other words, they are under control. -- Yoshiki

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Plugin and Wonderland ?
by luis ACEVEDO 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

Hi Squeakers: I need to know if Wonderland (squeak*s 3D enviroment) is executable in the plugin.Or, I need install a complete squeak for a simple demo. for the school direction. Thanks.... Bye. Patricio Acevedo J. Chile _________________________________________________________________ Charla con tus amigos en línea mediante MSN Messenger: http://messenger.latam.msn.com/

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Re: publishing eToys
by Nick Paxford 17 Sep '04

17 Sep '04

Ah-ha - 'Squeak basics' has the info I needed. I see this environment needs a lot of exploring! ----- Original Message ----- From: Nick Paxford To: squeakland Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 4:09 PM Subject: publishing eToys Hi all, I'm new to squeak and this mailing list although familiar with Smalltalk. EToys seems great and I've gone through the first two tutorials ('Painting' and 'Handles') with my student who loves it! Could someone explain please how to 'publish' our projects? I'm not sure how this mechanism works - I looks like we can publish to a website, and also view other students' projects from this site. Thanks a lot, Nick Paxford

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publishing eToys
by Nick Paxford 16 Sep '04

16 Sep '04

Hi all, I'm new to squeak and this mailing list although familiar with Smalltalk. EToys seems great and I've gone through the first two tutorials ('Painting' and 'Handles') with my student who loves it! Could someone explain please how to 'publish' our projects? I'm not sure how this mechanism works - I looks like we can publish to a website, and also view other students' projects from this site. Thanks a lot, Nick Paxford

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New Version available on Squeakland!!
by Kim Rose 09 Sep '04

09 Sep '04

Dear Squeaklander, We're happy to announce an improved version of Squeak for your use! If you visit the Squeakland website, and select the "download" option, you'll get this latest, greatest, version. MacUsers: You'll meet with success using Safari as your browser. (IE is no longer supported by Apple and we have found problems downloading Squeak via IE, so please use Safari.) The Etoy interface should look and behave as you'd expect. We've listened to you last school year and this summer, and added some goodies and fixed some bugs. One thing that may look different is the main Etoy font. We've made sure we are only using public domain fonts to ensure our public domain, open source license agreement. You'll find some new fonts and sizes that work well when making presentations or booklets. Some of the menus may have a slightly different look as well, but you'll find the menu options have not changed. You'll find some new goodies in the supplies bin/flap including a "grab patch" tool and a "lasso" which allow you to do screen grabs and move sketches or parts of sketches around the screen. Many changes that were made are deeper in the code and "behind the scenes" to allow for a truly "multilingual" Squeak. You'll see a new button on the navigator marked "English". This button will allow you to change the language displayed on the tiles. The version you'll download will include Spanish and German and we're working on several more languages which will be available soon. We are aware of one lingering bug, which we want you to be aware of and to know we're working hard to fix: When you load an older project into this new version, since the fonts have changed, you might find that the text in tiles in the old project may not look "quite right", i.e. the text may not fit perfectly into the tiles. Your scripts will still run; this is a "cosmetic" problem only. We beg your patience and hope we'll be loading a fix into the update stream to fix this soon. We especially wish to thank those of you who attended SqueakFest in Chicago for testing an earlier version of this update. And now, we ask all of you to report any errors or oddities you might encounter with this version, and send your commments, please. Should you happen to you receive an error message, it would be *extremely* helpful to us if you'd "store the error log" and attach it to an email reporting your problem. (This log will be saved in the "My Squeak" folder on your desktop and time and date stamped for identification.) Similiarly, if you encounter problems with a particular project, attaching that "problem project" to an email will also help us understand your problem greatly. Any email reporting problems, questions or errors should be sent to info(a)squeakland.org. General comments for discussion should be send to the Squeakland group mailing address so more people can participate in the discussion. We wish you all a great start to the new academic year. Please remember we are always looking for interesting stories and reports on what you are doing. We'd love to include your experiences in the "Squeak News" that appears on the Squeakland website. We'll be posting more documentation and goodies to Squeakland soon, so please check back often. Good luck getting "back to school" and keep on Squeaking! best regards, Kim

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Question on Squeakland Swiki username and password
by dgraftery 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Hi. I was trying to add some information to an existing swiki page about Flaps. When I go to edit the page, I am asked for a username and password. I used my Squeakland mailing list username and password, but these did not work. What username and password do I use edit a swiki page? Thanks, Dave

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