genuine squeak newbie
Bruce O'Neel
beoneel at mindspring.com
Sun Jun 20 14:24:19 UTC 1999
Hi,
> The language seems simple enough (although I haven't yet studied it
> in depth). Time to RTFM and experiment with stuff.
> - when I right click and see the pretty colored dots, what am I supposed
> to think? (I think it's cool that the blue one at the bottom-right
> corner lets you rotate windows (although it can get messy and
> disorienting))
Those are called, I believe, Morphic Halos. You can use them to
manipulate different morphic objects directly.
>
> - Is there any way to configure sloppy-focus instead of click-to-focus?
Surely there is, the code's all there. And no, I have no idea how to do
this. Do you mean 'give the window focus when the cursor is over it'?
If so, there is a lot of code which does this already, the scrollbars and
flaps being two. Poke away...
>
> - How does one run programs?
There really isn't a separation into 'programs'. Everything is a class
and you call either class or instance methods.
For example, to start the Web server, which in a more traditional sense
would be 'running a program' is (in an opened Workspace window):
PWS serveOnPort: 80 loggingTo: 'log.txt'.
Note that there is some setup to do before this line would work.
>
> - How does one share programs?
> What do Squeak people do for persistent storage?
We share things by creating change sets. For persistent storage you
either store things in the image or you store things as a change set
which you file in.
>
> - Should I even be calling them programs?
> Are programs just classes that need to be instantiated?
You're correct, don't call them programs. They are classes.
>
>
>[ ps ]
>
> Is there anyone out there who uses Squeak as their primary environment?
I'm sure there are others, but, on my portable Squeak is just about all I
have loaded.
cheers
bruce
>
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