[Newbies] OI screenshot Telegram install

[christoph.thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de]

Hi David,

it is great to hear that you are interested in my bot! :-) From your description you did everything right so far, now you would need to do the remaining steps from the self-hosting instructions:

2. Send a Telegram message to @BotFather (https://t.me/BotFather) to register your very own bot. He will send you a secret bot token.

3. To start a bot instance, open a Workspace and do the following:

	bot := TelegramSmalltalkBot withToken: '<your_bot_token>'.
	bot spawnNewProcess.

Now your bot instance should be running and should be able to send it a message from your Telegram account!

As a reminder, if you do not want that everyone from all over the world has access to your bot, you should define an allow-list of chat IDs. You can do this after you have send at least one message to your bot instance. After that, the simplest way to define the allow-list is to run the following in the same workspace window:

	chatIds := (bot instVarNamed: 'sessions') keys.
	Smalltalk at: #TBTestBotChatIds put: chatIds.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to ask them. :-)

Best,
Christoph

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> Hi,
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> I've seen a demonstration by Christoph Thiede of a TelegramSmalltalkBot.
> 
> I'm using OpenIndiana (UNIX) with the cog-spur VM using Squeak6.0alpha-20532 64bit.
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> #pkg list -v cog-spur
> runtime/smalltalk/cog-spur at 5.0.2957,5.11-2020.0.1.1
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> I don't know whether I understood the demo correctly, but my
> understanding was that is is possible to send Telegram messages from Squeak.
> 
> I'm trying to find out whether this works on OpenIndiana.
> 
> Following instructions at 'Self hosting the bot' at:
> 
> https://github.com/LinqLover/TelegramSmalltalkBot
> 
> First of all, step 1 works (I think it works, see screenshot):
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> Metacello new
> 	baseline: 'TelegramSmalltalkBot';
> 	githubUser: 'LinqLover' project: 'TelegramSmalltalkBot' path: 'src';
> 	load.
> 
> As a remark, because I'm a total absolute beginner with this,
> I had to figure out "Install the latest Trunk updates in your image":
> 
> The way to do this seems to be:
> 
>  a) in the Squeak menu update Squeak
> 
>     this upgraded my Squeak6.0alpha-20532 to Squeak6.0alpa-20533 64bit
> 
>     from a Workspace perhaps: 
> 
>       TheWorldMainDockingBar updateSqueak.
>    or
>       MCMcmUpdater updateFromServer.
> 
>  b) run in a workspace :
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>      Installer ensureRecentMetacello
> 
> I'm just adding this as a remark because without the ensureRecentMetacello,
> the instructions given complain 'no selector githubUser:project:path:'.
> 
> I think this because it is assumed that you first run ensureRecentMetacello,
> or otherwise have Metacello loaded in your image.
> 
> Because I'm unfamiliar with Metacello, I'm just adding this remark.
> 
> Anyway Metacello seems to load, and then it proceeds loading
> SimulationStudio-Base-cypress and finally TelegramSmalltalkBot-Tests-cypress.
> 
> My question now is how to proceed.
> 
> Can I run some tests at this point to check that the Metacello install of
> TelegramSmalltalkBot was succesful ?
> 
> Thanks!
> David Stes
> 
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