Newbie remark concerning Smalltalk programming in (german) Squeak (Squeakland 3.8.5976)

"Hübner, Uwe" uh at msc-ge.com
Thu Sep 1 11:27:44 UTC 2005


Dear 'Squeakers',

until today I wandered how to program Smalltalk in Squeak.

I found the tutorial at
'http://daitanmarks.sourceforge.net/or/squeak/squeak_tutorial-2.html'.

How frustrating it is, if the first program (Hello world) doesn't work!

I tried the following:

I opened a 'transcript' window, then opened a 'workspace'.

In the Workspace I typed
Transcript  cr.
Transcript show:'Hello world'.
Transcript cr.

With 'ALT-D' (on an Windows-PC) i tried to execute. Something happened but
nothing was displayed
in the Transcript window.

Meanwhile I found out that first I have to 'select' the code that has to be
executed!
Then everything works as expected.

Could someone explain it?

Regards,
Uwe




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