Image setup question

Amos aaamos at gmail.com
Thu Dec 13 10:54:56 UTC 2007


Hi all,

Although I've been developing in (VisualWorks) Smalltalk for a number
of years, I'm an absolute newbie when it comes to Squeak. I downloaded
and played around with Squeak 3.9 recently (because I was curious
about Seaside) and was surprised to see how far Squeak has come since
I last had a look a few years ago.

Anyway, I've read a few helpfiles/wikis/tutorials/blogs/etc., saw
several images available for download with several different browsers
and tools loaded, and read about a few more that I haven't been able
to find/load (OmniBrowser, Cees' RefractoringBrowser, Ramon's
SentorsaBrowser). So I was wondering what you guys would recommend as
a base image and if you could point me to the right place for finding
out how best to go about loading tools. (I've downloaded a few
packages with the universe package browser, which was fairly
intuitive, but couldn't find several things I was after - should I use
that MonticelloBrowser instead? What's the difference?)

Playing around with a few things, I missed the option to "dive into"
an element from an Inspector and then "pop" back out to the previously
inspected object(s), so I modified the Inspector class to add those
options. Is something like that useful enough to submit the code
somewhere for others to load? Or am I re-inventing the wheel and
someone's already done that?

Any help or pointers where to read up on this stuff would be greatly
appreciated.

Cheers,

Amos



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