How to "execute" only one project

Milan Zimmermann milan.zimmermann at sympatico.ca
Fri Oct 17 17:05:20 UTC 2003


Goran,

Thanks for the suggestions, I will try this and come back if I need more help. 
I have a few things on my questions list but want to finish this first,

thanks, Milan
On October 17, 2003 06:16 am, goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
> Milan Zimmermann <milan.zimmermann at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Furst I realize this is probably not the right list to ask this question
> > but I could not decide which of the Squeak lists is for "general squeak
> > help" questions. (If someone points me to the right list I will post it
> > there.)
>
> General squeak is probably here. :-)
>
> > With my kids, we have built a simple project - an Aquarium with a fish
> > that moves around. They would like to turn this into a screensaver (SuSE
> > Linux). I believe the "Squeak specific" steps would be:
> >
> > 	1) Hide or get rid of all non-display objects on the screen such as
> > flaps, scripts etc. I think we can figure this out.
>
> In the World menu (right click on desktop) there is "Show shared flaps".
> Uncheck.
>
> > 	2) Somehow "export" Aquarium project to "Aquarium.pr" and then run
>
> Under desktop+leftclick->projects->save project on local file only.
>
> > squeak Aquarium.pr
> >
> > However, there seems to be no such option ... do I need to copy the whole
> > image and run
>
> Eh, well - the best way with the fastest startup is probably to prepare
> an image with the project active and running and then just "save as...".
>
> > squeak MyCopiedImage
> >
> > or is there another, more sane  way?
>
> You *can* make the image to load the project on startup, but since this
> is to be a screensave I assume it should start as fast as possible (and
> without funny things happening in the beginning, like som progress
> indicator flashing by when loading project etc).
>
> regards, Göran



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