[squeak-dev] Re: [OT] How this bring Squeak closer to iPad ?

Serge Stinckwich Serge.Stinckwich at gmail.com
Thu Aug 5 10:48:55 UTC 2010


On 05/08/10 15:03, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 05.08.2010, at 05:16, Serge Stinckwich wrote:
>
>> On 03/08/10 23:44, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>> On 03.08.2010, at 18:02, Andreas Raab wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 8/3/2010 6:04 AM, Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
>>>>> http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/federal-government-to-apple-jailbreak-this-iphone/4506
>>>>
>>>> Yup, if you have an iPhone/iPad check out http://www.jailbreakme.com/
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>   - Andreas
>>>
>>> IMHO nothing much has changed. Jail-breaking will still void your warranty.
>>>
>>> Anyhow, people previously reported success installing and running the Etoys ipa on a jail-broken iPad:
>>>
>>> 	http://etoys.squeak.org/experimental/
>>
>> Yes it works for me ;-) Thank you for the great job.
>
> You're welcome!
>
> If someone is interested to help developing/beta-testing Etoys on the iPad, I will sign the app so it runs on their (non-jailbroken) iPad.

Hum, i already jailbreak my ipad ... If you sign the app, it will be 
much easier to use for people who don't want to jailbreak their machine 
i guess.

> Also, if someone just wants to know how it feels to use Squeak on a touch screen, please download my touch emulator image. Should work on all platforms:
>
> 	http://etoys.squeak.org/experimental/etoys-touch-100620.zip
>
> I'd be interested in feedback if this works on Windows and Linux, too - you should get a huge hand instead of a mouse pointer (and tap the About flap to try some preferences).
>
>> Bert, how could i change the image provided in the ipa file ?
>
> If you are just interested in accessing the Smalltalk tools, tap the About flap and disable the "etoys-friendly" preference. Then you get the regular world menu when tapping the background, and you can jump to the top-level project which has some tools open already (this is an Etoys-4.1alpha developer image).
>
> To use a different image, it would be best to compile your own application:
>
> 	http://isqueak.org/
>
> And the ipa is just a zip file. Replacing the image in the zip might work.

Yes, i just discover that .ipa are .zip file in fact.
Does the VM provided in your ipa file support block closure ?

Regards,

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Serge Stinckwich
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