squeakland December 2005

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fire a script with a keypress
by Bob Irving 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Can anyone tell me how to fire a script with a keypress in eToys? For instance, how could you use the space bar to pause? Just an example. Thanks in advance, Bob Irving Middle School Technology Facilitator Lancaster Country Day School Lancaster, PA Blog: www.e-lcds.org/wordpress/ "It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." W. Edward Deming

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squeak newbie hear - asking newbie question
by Yael Yankelev 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Hi, I've managed to familiarize myself with the basics EToys functionality but I can't for the life me figure out how to import say a jpg, or gif into a Squeak project.. I've even looked through other projects that have imported images, and still can't figure out how they got in there. Can someone give me a few hints on how to do this? Is there a favorite how-to doc that everyone uses somewhere? I've done all the tutorials and quickstart on SqueakLand, is there anything out there that will take me further? Yael

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ah - playfield gridding
by Randy Heiland 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

I asked my previous question before actually test-driving -- I see that a playfield's grid spacing, visible or not, does affect the draggability (units) of a sketch -- and perhaps more. --Randy

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playfield gridding shortcut?
by Randy Heiland 05 Dec '05

05 Dec '05

Is there a shortcut for turning on/displaying a grid in a playfield? I.e., in order to display a grid, it's a 2-step process (in the viewing options for a playfield): toggle on 'use gridding' and 'show grid when gridding'. If I want to display gridding frequently on playfields, is there a quicker way? And, on this subject, what purpose does gridding serve if it's more than a purely visual purpose? Does the grid invisibly affect certain operations of a sketch for example? thanks, Randy

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Recovering from hung image
by John Maxwell 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

I have just painted myself into a corner that I would very much like to get out of. Hope there's a way out. I was mucking about with an Etoy running and inadvertently did *something* which caused a couple of debug windows to pop up. I didn't get a chance to even notice what I'd done, because what I did next prevented it: at some deep, lizard-brain level, I panicked and, sensing an imminent crash, popped the World menu and hit "save and quit". Upon attempting to restart the image I realized this was NOT the thing to have done, for now I have an image that won't go; it hangs even before anything appears onscreen (it goes far enough to switch to fullscreen mode on my Mac; the menu bar disappears). It seems to go into a loop with 70-80% of my system resources used up. I am hoping, since whatever I did to cause this was extremely minor and inadvertent, that I can perhaps manually edit the image file and backtrack? Is this possible? My understanding of the changes file is that it will allow me to recover from crashes that happen BEFORE one saves; my problem is unfortunately the opposite. Any advice or insight would be appreciated... there's a bunch of stuff in that image that I'd be quite annoyed to lose. - John Maxwell jmax(a)sfu.ca

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The Weekly Squeak No.13: November 13th - November 19th
by Giovanni Corriga 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Dear squeakers, Hello, and welcome back to the The Weekly Squeak, a weekly report on what's going on in the world of Squeak. As soon as we have announced that the have reduced the Weekly Squeak gap, real life has caught up with us (well, just with the editor really). So, it is a great honour to us to present the 10-days late 13th issue. This is the first issue which adds the Seaside mailing list to its roster, and also sports an interview with Squeak hacker extraordinaire Avi Bryant. Enjoy! In this issue you'll find: 1. Multiplatform sensor refactoring 2. New 3.9a images available 3. A Resource framework 4. Answers ain't just for newbies 5. Dabbledb vs WikiCalc 6. C5-06 Conference 7. SqueakNOS VMWare Package 8. Morphic Layout documentation 9. IMAP client for Squeak 10. Cees' Refractoring Browser 11. A poor man's VNC with Seaside 12. Despamming a Swiki 13. DoIt refurbished 14. The annual VM building experience 15. eCompletion in a workspace with Shout 16. A Smalltalk job offer 17. A Squeak post card 18. First release of Pier 1.0.0-alpha 19. Small-Land video on Google Video 20. Some tips on cross-dialect portability 21. Upcoming Squeak Chats 22. SqueakViews: an interview with Avi Bryant You'll find the complete report at http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5740 . The past issues archive can be found at http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5751 . The Weekly Squeak has an RSS feed: http://people.squeakfoundation.org/person/gcorriga/rss.xml .

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