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

John McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Thu Aug 5 11:16:58 UTC 2010


The vm comes from the IOS tree from squeakvm.org which replaces the
source at isqueak.org it uses the latest vmmaker and is closure aware

On 8/5/10, Serge Stinckwich <Serge.Stinckwich at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam
> Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk
> http://doesnotunderstand.org/
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