[Newbies] Magma tutorial or examples

[David Mitchell]

http://www.gjallar.se/

On Nov 27, 2007 12:29 PM, ina tube <innertube at doramail.com> wrote:
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> I recently loaded Magma into my image to play around with, following the Getting Started Guide at:
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> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2689
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> I looked around for some more documentation or code examples but was not able to find any.  Can someone point me to sample programs that illustrate how Magma is used?
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> Thanks,
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> Paul
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> PS:  There may be a few errors or ommissions in the Getting Started guide.  After creating the sample repository with,
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>   MagmaRepositoryController
>     create: 'c:\myMagmaFolder'
>     root: Dictionary new
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> the guide explains that in single user mode, one can use the new obejct store by executing
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>   myMagmaSession := MagmaSession openLocal: 'c:\myMagmaFolder\myRepository.magma'.
>   myMagmaSession connectAs: 'chris'
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> I got a traceback when I tried the above.  I got it working only after trying
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>   myMagmaSession := MagmaSession openLocal: 'c:\myMagmaFolder'.
>   myMagmaSession connectAs: 'chris'
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> Ie, the MagmaSession class>>openLocal: method takes a directory name rather than a particular '.magma' element.
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>
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