Should work on the latest VMs, but I don't have Windows around and can't prove it:)

On Apr 26, 2012, at 9:59 AM, "H. Hirzel" <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> which VM should I take for MSWindows? Link?
> 
> Thank you for the answer in advance.
> 
> --Hannes
> 
> On 4/26/12, Enrico Spinielli <enrico.spinielli at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Juan,
>> very nice creature Cuis 4.0: congratulations!
>> 
>> I do not know whether this the right spot to report it but I think I found
>> a bug: the rotate halo does not work.
>> I just created a RectangleMorph, showed the halos and dragged around the
>> rotate handle.
>> 
>> Hope it helps
>> Bye
>> Enrico
>> PS: How do you show the halo of an halo?
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 20:14, <juanlists at jvuletich.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Folks,
>>> 
>>> Cuis 4.0 is available at
>>> http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/**Index.html<http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html>.
>>> This is a very important release. It's been over 10 months since Cuis
>>> 3.3, but all this time means that there are a lot of big news now.
>>> 
>>> The biggest one is the public release of the Styled Text Editor, by
>>> Bernhard Pieber. Bernhard will do the announcement of this project
>>> himself,
>>> all I want to say is that Styled Text Editor is the driving force behind
>>> most of the new stuff in this release. I also want to add that I'm
>>> delighted to be able to work with Bernhard on his project, and that I'm
>>> more than happy with the wonderful effect this is having on Cuis itself.
>>> 
>>> Check
>>> http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/**CuisReleaseNotes.html<http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CuisReleaseNotes.html>.
>>> 
>>> So, the main new features of this release of Cuis are the required
>>> support
>>> for External Packages. This is a very lightweight implementation of
>>> Packages, based on PackageInfo, but not on Monticello. Versioning is done
>>> with GitHub. Take a look at http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/**
>>> CodeManagementInCuis4.html<http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CodeManagementInCuis4.html>and
>>> http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/**CuisAndGitHub.html<http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/CuisAndGitHub.html>.
>>> 
>>> Full list of features (from the release notes):
>>> ------------------------------**-----------------------
>>> 
>>>   - Package Support. Cuis 4.0 has a package implementation based on
>>> PackageInfo. Can be used with a Git repository (like GitHub) for package
>>> versioning. More info at "CodeManagementInCuis4" and "CuisAndGitHub".
>>> This
>>> infrastructure and process is used for the StyledTextEditor project,
>>> developed by Bernhard Pieber and Software Generation.
>>> 
>>>   - New handling of ChangeSets. The idea is to have only one "live"
>>> change set that automatically captures all changes done to the Cuis Core
>>> image. Changes to Packages go to separate ChangeSets.
>>> 
>>>   - UCompletion. A new implementation of Autocompletion for Smalltalk
>>> code. Activates with ctrl-space. Usually gives the selector desired as
>>> the
>>> first option. Some features are:
>>> 
>>>       = Sorts by last definition of selector (Methods recently saved go
>>> first),
>>>       = Sorts appropriately all selectors matching entered prefix (no
>>> hardcoded limits, like 40 selectors matching 2 letters).
>>>       = Restricts suggestions if receiver is Global, a Constant or a
>>> pseudo-variable.
>>>       = Doesn't have an "expanded mode". Always shows relevant
>>> suggestions.
>>>       = Not restricted to a set of previously selected packages. All the
>>> methods in the system are accounted for.
>>>       = Very fast, thanks to an optimized Trie implementation.
>>>       = Compact code. Relies on services by Trie (for storing and
>>> querying selectors) and Shout (for parsing incomplete methods).
>>>       = Helps make Shout faster, by providing super fast queries of
>>> selector prefixes.
>>>       = Can be used for other applications besides Smalltalk code.
>>> Currently used for an English glossary for StyledTextEditor.
>>> 
>>>   - Trie. Cuis 4.- includes a very optimized implementation of a Trie.
>>> Tries are dictionaries where keys are Strings. Lookups are extremely
>>> fast.
>>> Search for entries matching a prefix are extremely fast (O(1) regardless
>>> of
>>> the size of the collection). Addition and removals are quite fast too.
>>> Used
>>> for UCompletion, holding 11,000 selectors. Also used for an English spell
>>> checker (in the StyledTextEditor project) holding 166,000 words. In both
>>> cases use of memory is quite reasonable (3 and 5.4 bytes per character in
>>> average) and query speed is extremely fast.
>>> 
>>>   - Multiple level undo / redo in all text and code editors.
>>> 
>>>   - ClickNHalf+Drag to select words. TripleClick or
>>> DoubleClickNHalf+Drag
>>> to select paragraphs. Like most modern text editors and wordprocessors
>>> do.
>>> 
>>>   - Multiple text selection (with control+mouse). Like most modern text
>>> editors and wordprocessors do.
>>> 
>>>   - Lf. The newline character is no longer Character cr (ASCII code 13),
>>> but Character lf (ASCII code 10). This is the standard in Mac and Unix
>>> platforms, and the required convention for GitHub. All the code in the
>>> image has been converted.
>>> 
>>>   - cmd-w closes window below mouse pointer. cmd-< y cmd-> cycle through
>>> windows.
>>> 
>>>   - New "PostIt" like HoverHelp morphs.
>>> 
>>>   - Simplification / Redesign: Scrolling in Morphic (TransformMorph
>>> gone,
>>> etc).
>>> 
>>>   - Deep cleanup in Paragraph and paragraph display services in Canvas
>>> and DisplayScanner (now MorphicScanner).
>>> 
>>>   - MouseClickState refactor, to ease new gestures (ClickNHalf+Drag,
>>> DoubleClickNHalf+Drag, TripleClick).
>>> 
>>>   - Killed AbstractEvent hierarchy. Unified event subscribing,
>>> triggering
>>> and handling everywhere in Cuis.
>>> 
>>>   - More TextMorph cleanup.
>>> 
>>>   - Numeric enhancements done by nice and jmv, both on Squeak and Cuis.
>>> 
>>>   - Many minor enhancements, cleanups and bugfixes.
>>> 
>>>   - Updates to Squeak: Numerics, Network, and many others.
>>> 
>>> I hope you enjoy this release of Cuis as much as Bernhard and I enjoyed
>>> working on it. As usual, comments, discussion, bug reports, kudos and
>>> donations are all
>>> welcome!
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Juan Vuletich
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Enrico Spinielli
>> "Do Androids dream of electric sheep?"— Philip K. Dick
>> "Hear and forget; see and remember;do and understand."—Mitchel Resnick
>> "He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense."—John McCarthy
>> 
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