[Pharo-users] Should I be reporting bugs in Pharo 3.0?

2014-07-09 Thread Tim Mackinnon
I don't want to create lots of noise - or create unnecessary work, but if I find bugs in Pharo 3.0, should I be reporting them? Or do you want me to try and repro them in 4.0 and then report them under 4.0? For example, I have a class that was a subclass of CustomHelp that overrode the class #pag

Re: [Pharo-users] Should I be reporting bugs in Pharo 3.0?

2014-07-09 Thread Tim Mackinnon
I've also noticed I keep getting re-prompted to enter my username when I save source (this is a very fresh image) - I think it may be because I've just saved comments and class methods so far - but its prompted me several times now for my name? Should I report steps for this? Tim -- View this

Re: [Pharo-users] How to download Pharo40?

2014-07-09 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Hey Uko - just tried Pharo launcher and its actually pretty good. I already have a few ideas for little tweaks so maybe I may be able to contribute something when I get a bit better. Thanks for pointing it out. Tim -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/How-to-download-Pharo4

Re: [Pharo-users] Should I be reporting bugs in Pharo 3.0?

2014-07-09 Thread Tim Mackinnon
OK - will do. I am finding that Nautilus in Pharo 3 is very flakey - its very easy to get into a position where you cant select anything in the package or class pane - and you just get walkbacks making it unusable. I'm surprised its not been noticed already. Tim -- View this message in context

Re: [Pharo-users] Should I be reporting bugs in Pharo 3.0?

2014-07-09 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Just to clarify - should I just submit for 4.0 and make a note that it applies to 3.0 and then you guys can make a duplicate? Or should I make a duplicate? If its me - how do I duplicate a bug in fogbugz - I can't see an option to do it (and would expect it to link the two) Tim -- View this me

Re: [Pharo-users] Should I be reporting bugs in Pharo 3.0?

2014-07-10 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Hi Nicolai - I should have added that I like the direction that Nautilus is going (and it looks cool) - there is a lot of potential particularly if the code underneath is clean (my experience with the browser code from Squeak, was that it was messy - and seemed to have been ported through several s

Re: [Pharo-users] Should I be reporting bugs in Pharo 3.0?

2014-07-11 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Nicolai - I have just seen that you have a fix for one of the Nautilus issues I raised (awesome). Forgive me - but I don't yet know how to load up a slice and test it (but am willing to learn, so I can perhaps help more in the future). I've loaded up the latest Pharo 4.0 image - luanched monticel

Re: [Pharo-users] Should I be reporting bugs in Pharo 3.0?

2014-07-11 Thread Tim Mackinnon
rdable options ? > > Phil > > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Nicolai Hess <[hidden email]> wrote: > > > > 2014-07-11 12:15 GMT+02:00 Tim Mackinnon <[hidden email]>: > Nicolai - I have just seen that you have a fix for one of the Nautilus issues >

Re: [Pharo-users] Should I be reporting bugs in Pharo 3.0?

2014-07-11 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Nicolai - your instructions worked perfectly (thanks - I'm a smaller step closer to contributing). I tried the slice in a fresh image and hit some strange problems (might not be related to your fix, although its only when I load that I see them). I've put it in the FobFubgz and reassigned it back

Re: [Pharo-users] Should I be reporting bugs in Pharo 3.0?

2014-07-12 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Can I check one more item - should I record the actual Image version where bugs occur? In fogbugz, there is a version field - but I'm not sure what your convention is for these things? (Is it written down somewhere for me to read how to report good bugs using FogBugz). As an aside - I'm quite sur

Re: [Pharo-users] Should I be reporting bugs in Pharo 3.0?

2014-07-13 Thread Tim Mackinnon
e've got and get used to its eccentricities. Tim Sent from my iPhone On 13 Jul 2014, at 19:14, "Ben Coman [via Smalltalk]" wrote: > Tim Mackinnon wrote: > > > Can I check one more item - should I record the actual Image version where > > bugs occur?

Re: [Pharo-users] Should I be reporting bugs in Pharo 3.0?

2014-07-15 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Thanks for the tip Ben - yes Cases xxx looks like what I wanted (and I just tried it). Its a bit difficult to know this is available so I wanted to add it to the Pharo Fogbugz wiki but I can't edit that (it also looks like there are other variants too: http://help.fogcreek.com/7772/link-fogbugz-cas

[Pharo-users] I've raised a bug that the Pharo website has a missing video

2014-07-15 Thread Tim Mackinnon
FYI - I've raised a bug that the pharo website doesn't have a video showing how to report bugs anymore. 13553 - Reporting issues video on Pharo website reports "Does not exist" Not sure if it's right to raise an issue - but thought it made sense (and given I can't watch the video... ;) Tim --

[Pharo-users] Advice on making a first contribution

2014-07-15 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Hi guys - I've decided to try and use moments of spare time to see if I can contribute in small ways (and I'm sorry I can't contribute in big ways - but maybe I will get up to that point). Anyway - I've thought it would be handy to improve the help text in Pharo - as this it where I first looked t

Re: [Pharo-users] Advice on making a first contribution

2014-07-16 Thread Tim Mackinnon
I think I've figured out what I need to know by watching the video on the Pharo fogbugz page here - https://pharo.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W68 So I guess I will try that and see what feedback I get. Tim -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Advice-on-making-a-first-contributio

[Pharo-users] How do I get a halo on a specific UI object in Pharo 3/4?

2014-07-16 Thread Tim Mackinnon
In older versions of Squeak pharo - I think alt-click would cycle you through halos on objects in the UI. I have noticed in Pharo 3/4 - if I ctrl+shift click I get a menu that has many options, one of which is "add halo" - but how do I control which UI element I will get a halo on? Similarly - the

Re: [Pharo-users] Should I be reporting bugs in Pharo 3.0?

2014-07-16 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Thanks Marcus - I will use it carefully and try and improve anything I find as I relearn things. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Should-I-be-reporting-bugs-in-Pharo-3-0-tp4767284p4768079.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

[Pharo-users] Pharo launcher network error for Pharo 4.0 (beta)?

2014-07-22 Thread Tim Mackinnon
I was quite enjoying using Pharo Launcher - but today I am getting “network error” for the Pharo4.0 (beta) and Pharo 2.0 (old) trees? Has something changed? Tim

[Pharo-users] What should I do when I get a fogbugz "Fix review needed"?

2014-07-22 Thread Tim Mackinnon
If I report a bug in fogbugz and it later gets fixed, I get an email with the slice its fixed in. So I’ve loaded the slice into the latest image - then I’ve done “merge” (I’m still not clear on whether I should do merge or load? I think I understand that I need merge to just get those fixes?).

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo launcher network error for Pharo 4.0 (beta)?

2014-07-22 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Yes its weird - I can view http://files.pharo.org/image/40/ fine in a web browser. It seems to affect 4.0 and 2.0. 3.0 and RModJenkins etc all expand correctly. The status bar was saying 4 network errors (although checking now, it says 7). It could be connectivity in this office, so I can check

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo launcher network error for Pharo 4.0 (beta)?

2014-07-25 Thread Tim Mackinnon
I've tried it at home and it works fine, yesterday it didn't work in the office (just 4.0 and 2.0) - some there must be some weird networking going on in that office. Anyway - glad I can use it at home, as its a very handy launcher! Thanks for creating it, and to those helping maintain it. Tim

[Pharo-users] Slice loading/merging differences question

2014-08-07 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Hi - I am still a bit confused about the difference between load vs. merge with Monticello? Last month, when I tried to verify a bug fix, I did a load - and it caused other things (dependencies?) to be loaded into my clean image and so I ended up with something else in a broken state. So I had

Re: [Pharo-users] Slice loading/merging differences question

2014-08-07 Thread Tim Mackinnon
stepharo wrote > When we integrate changes we systematically merge so that even if you > did a fix on a not recent version we get both improvements. Stef - just to check on this, in the case of fogbugz 13526 - if you just merge, you don't pick up the requirement to load fogbugz 13787? So how do

[Pharo-users] PharoLauncher can only run 1 instance on OSX?

2014-08-08 Thread Tim Mackinnon
I really like the PharoLauncher project - it’s very handy. However I’ve noticed that on OSX when I launch an image and then try and run PhaorLauncher (e.g. pharo.app) again, it just switches me to my already running image? Anyone know why it does that - or if there is some way to avoid it? i’m

Re: [Pharo-users] PharoLauncher can only run 1 instance on OSX?

2014-08-08 Thread Tim Mackinnon
x27;re clicking it just switches to your running > image. > Try to deselect this option and retry. > > Regards, > > - Mail original - >> De: "Tim Mackinnon" >> À: "Pharo Users Newsgroup" >> Envoyé: Vendredi 8 Août 2014 17:34:06 &g

[Pharo-users] Always asking for developer initials in 4,0?

2014-08-08 Thread Tim Mackinnon
I’ve noticed quite a few times now in the Pharo 4.0 images - that I keep getting multiple prompts to enter my developer initials. I can’t put my finger on it - I think its when I open a SystemBrowser in a new image - and just edit a class comment (it then prompts me for initials which is correct

Re: [Pharo-users] Always asking for developer initials in 4,0?

2014-08-08 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Yes - there is definitely a problem - after not prompting me a few times - I’ve just made another text change in the comment and its asked me for “Author Identification” again. Tim On 8 Aug 2014, at 18:11, Tim Mackinnon wrote: > I’ve noticed quite a few times now in the Pharo 4.0 ima

Re: [Pharo-users] Website redirects?

2014-08-09 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Another url was: http://www.pharo.org/get-involved On 9 Aug 2014, at 12:32, Tim Mackinnon wrote: > Guys - some of the URL’s on the pharo website have changed - I think it would > make sense to have redirects instead of a Not Found error? e.g. > http://www.pharo.org/get-help > &

[Pharo-users] Website redirects?

2014-08-09 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Guys - some of the URL’s on the pharo website have changed - I think it would make sense to have redirects instead of a Not Found error? e.g. http://www.pharo.org/get-help Just saying? Should I raise a ticket for this? Tim

Re: [Pharo-users] PharoLauncher can only run 1 instance on OSX?

2014-08-09 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Thanks Ben - you are right, there has been another release since I downloaded it (might have to look at how to detect a version update in the launcher to spot that - that would keep me busy ;) I’m fixed now. Tim On 9 Aug 2014, at 06:29, Ben Coman wrote: > Tim Mackinnon wrote: >>

[Pharo-users] Any thoughts on improving MC browser?

2014-08-09 Thread Tim Mackinnon
I was just about to ask how do I compare two arbitrary versions in Monticello - as I can’t multiselect - until I realised that the Diff button prompts you for a version against what you have currently selected. This is a very weird UI experience. Now that we seem to have multi-select widgets - a

Re: [Pharo-users] PharoLauncher can only run 1 instance on OSX?

2014-08-09 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Actually Ben - I take it back, it still seems to want to only launch a single instance with v.3.0.0 - I’m not sure what’s going on (and when i’m back at the office I will have to check it with my desktop version as swear it was working properly). Tim On 9 Aug 2014, at 13:20, Tim Mackinnon

[Pharo-users] Categorise method defaults?

2014-08-09 Thread Tim Mackinnon
When using Pharo 4.0 - if I create a new class (subclass of Object) and then create a new class method for constructing that instance - when I try to classify the method why is the list of possibilities empty? In old versions of squeak I recall there was a list of possibilities already in the i

[Pharo-users] The tedious split between class and instance?

2014-08-09 Thread Tim Mackinnon
The more I use Pharo again - the more it strikes me how tedious it is to have to flip between instance and class side definitions. For example - if I create a new class with an instance variable, and then in my class constructor method decide that it would be handy to do: ^self new children: it

[Pharo-users] Can I create a personal slice?

2014-08-09 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Hi - i was playing around with some changes in a few packages to see if I can make a contribution to PharoLauncher. I want to version my spikes, in case I trash my image - but I’m not yet ready to propose anything to commit yet. While I can version each of the dirty packages - how can I group t

Re: [Pharo-users] Can I create a personal slice?

2014-08-10 Thread Tim Mackinnon
repositories it seems right to want to flag a group of packages together to easily reload. No-one has mentioned metacello - so I’m assuming that is more heavy-weight than what I should need right? Tim On 10 Aug 2014, at 02:15, Ben Coman wrote: > Tim Mackinnon wrote: >> Hi - i wa

Re: [Pharo-users] Can I create a personal slice?

2014-08-10 Thread Tim Mackinnon
ramifications to this - but it looks fine. Would be interesting if anyone could comment on this (and I will check out Versioneer - although it still sounds like overkill for some temporary work I just want to version together). Tim On 10 Aug 2014, at 08:57, Ben Coman wrote: > Tim Mackinnon wr

[Pharo-users] How do I trace through implementors in Pharo?

2014-08-10 Thread Tim Mackinnon
As I relearn/learn how to use Pharo, I’m struck by some of the excellent changes and confounded by some of the simple things that boggle me. So, I wanted to follow a path through some message sends - the use of #alert:title: in UIManager specifically. So I browser UIManager, find the method (it

Re: [Pharo-users] Can I create a personal slice?

2014-08-10 Thread Tim Mackinnon
es for your personal projects :) > > Ben > >> On 10 Aug 2014, at 23:24, Tim Mackinnon wrote: >> >> I will make a not to try Versioneer (although the image I am using is the >> one PharoLauncher is built in, which is 3.0). >> >> Anyway - I did try making a s

[Pharo-users] How to contribute to PharoLauncher?

2014-08-11 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Hi - I’ve added a few interesting features to PharoLauncher, but I’m not sure what the steps are for contributing to a SmalltalkHub project? My proposed changes are as follows: - Change default image template name to include the parent folder name (e.g. Pharo 4.0 (beta)-540123 vs. 450123) - Add

Re: [Pharo-users] How to contribute to PharoLauncher?

2014-08-11 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Stef - hmm thats an interesting feature as well, I’ll have a quick look. I tried committing my changes but I don’t have commit writes on that project. I have entered a Fogbugz issue in the Launcher category and attached my slice to it. I still think I’m doing something wrong with Monticello tho

Re: [Pharo-users] How to contribute to PharoLauncher?

2014-08-11 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Thanks Ben - I think that makes sense, as I did notice doing that kind of compare seemed to pull things into my image. As I’m about to try again - I’ll try what you suggest (I’m sure I will get there in the end). Tim On 11 Aug 2014, at 13:32, Ben Coman wrote: > Tim Mackinnon wr

Re: [Pharo-users] How to contribute to PharoLauncher?

2014-08-11 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Stef - from what I can see, I think the refresh icon on the toolbar was supposed to do that - but it didn’t. I’m proposing a fix to make that work, as well as having file operations check the file they are working on is actually there - before attempting their operation (and tell you if not, and

[Pharo-users] Anyone still at Esug Camp Smalltalk?

2014-08-17 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Hi Guys - I'm on the train to Cambridge and wondering if anyone will still be at Camp Smalltalk 4:30ish? My train gets in at 4 - so was thinking of walking over if people are still around for a bit? Tim Sent from my iPhone

Re: [Pharo-users] Anyone still at Esug Camp Smalltalk?

2014-08-17 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Awesome - train is getting close, will walk over. Tim Sent from my iPhone > On 17 Aug 2014, at 03:24 pm, Marcus Denker wrote: > > >> On 17 Aug 2014, at 15:07, Tim Mackinnon wrote: >> >> Hi Guys - I'm on the train to Cambridge and wondering if anyone will s

Re: [Pharo-users] Migrate code from Dolphin Smalltalk

2014-08-18 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Hi Esteban - might it be possible to put your script and mock classes on Smalltalk hub for future reference? I might need to do something similar at some point - and it sounds workable with what you did. Thanks for mentioning it. Tim Sent from my iPhone > On 18 Aug 2014, at 04:46 pm, "Esteba

Re: [Pharo-users] best solution to store data

2014-09-02 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Esteban talked about Voyage at ESUG, its on the list of talks here: http://goo.gl/E1VF53 You can of course scale up to Gemstone (or indeed start with that as well if you need something more commercial and supported - there is a Gemstone talk in that link as well). Tim On 2 Sep 2014, at 07:17

Re: [Pharo-users] Tide installation

2014-09-02 Thread Tim Mackinnon
You can try watching the ESUG video from this year on: http://goo.gl/E1VF53 The presentation that Esteban gave was great - and it also inspired me to look at this some more too. Tim On 2 Sep 2014, at 17:46, Bernat Romagosa wrote: > Hey, it looks really nice. Is there any documentation aroun

Re: [Pharo-users] Tide installation

2014-09-02 Thread Tim Mackinnon
directoryPath: '.'; > yourself); > registerHandler: ((TDPresenterHandler path: 'counter') > rootPresenterClass: TDCounter; > yourself) > > Nice! > > > 2014-09-02 18:57 GMT+02

[Pharo-users] How to create a red box with text in a big font?

2014-09-04 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Hi guys - I’m a bit stumped on how to create things in big text with a set background colour. I thought I understood - but it just doesn’t seem to work. I was thinking I could create a container morph, set its background colour (which works), and then put a StringMorph inside it with a set font.

Re: [Pharo-users] How to create a red box with text in a big font?

2014-09-04 Thread Tim Mackinnon
-=-=-= > > > > Cheers, > Alexandre > > -- > _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: > Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu > ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. > > > > On Sep 4, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Tim Mackinnon wrote: > >> Hi guys - I’m a bit stumped on how to create t

Re: [Pharo-users] How to create a red box with text in a big font?

2014-09-05 Thread Tim Mackinnon
> Adding the morph inside the window changes the morph color to white :( (What > the heck?) > > If the color is changed after the openInWindow, then that works. > > Morph new > hResizing: #shrinkWrap; > addMorph: ( > 'Hello World' asMorph &g

[Pharo-users] Testing Traits?

2014-10-09 Thread Tim Mackinnon
I’ve sort of padded around the edges of Traits, and decided to reread the papers and better understand them. One thing that occurs to me - if you want to test your traits, is the only suggested mechanism to test them in-situ with the classes that use them OR can you poof one up and test it by e

Re: [Pharo-users] Testing Traits?

2014-10-09 Thread Tim Mackinnon
crawl before trying to run ;) Tim On 9 Oct 2014, at 14:05, Damien Cassou wrote: > On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Tim Mackinnon wrote: >> Any thoughts/pointers? > > I would tend to create one test trait for each application trait the > same way I create one test class fo

Re: [Pharo-users] GUI Frameworks Choice

2014-10-17 Thread Tim Mackinnon
An approachable example of what you can do (I believe its using Spec as its UI glue) is PharoLauncher - it might be something worth studying as an example? It’s on Smalltalk Hub. Tim On 17 Oct 2014, at 08:11, Craig wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm new to Pharo although not to Smalltalk. I did dabb

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 7 crashes on OSX when unsuspending laptop?

2019-02-12 Thread Tim Mackinnon
12 Feb 2019, at 12:43, Cyril Ferlicot wrote: > > Hi, > > Related issue: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/2422 > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 12:55 PM Tim Mackinnon wrote: >> >> I think I read someone else commenting on this, but I can’t find where I &

[Pharo-users] Calypso documentation? Or understanding menu building

2019-02-12 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Is there any documentation on Calypso application contexts? I am trying to add a menu item to a package tag (the bit underneath a package - which I often call a sub-package). I’ve specified: ^CmdContextMenuActivation byItemOf: ClyQueryMenuGroup for: RPackage asCalypsoItemCon

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 7 crashes on OSX when unsuspending laptop?

2019-02-12 Thread Tim Mackinnon
pretty fresh. As I’m not working on anything crucial its not killing me - but I’d be pretty peeved off if I was using the new release for real and it was dying like this all of the time. Tim > On 12 Feb 2019, at 13:12, Cyril Ferlicot wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 1:53 PM Tim Mackinn

[Pharo-users] Its odd you can't have our own git project called MyProject/Pharo!

2019-02-12 Thread Tim Mackinnon
I’m really quite stunned that having worked happily 6 months ago on a project called github://exercism/pharo (a name given to us by the exercism project) - that you can’t load that code into Pharo7 anymore either via iceberg or via metacello. It looks like iceberg ignores any paths leading up

Re: [Pharo-users] Calypso documentation? Or understanding menu building

2019-02-12 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Thanks Denis - lots for me to look through there. I’ll also add a PR to add those documentation links to the Calypso readme. Tim > On 12 Feb 2019, at 19:32, Denis Kudriashov wrote: > > Hi Tim > > вт, 12 февр. 2019 г. в 13:42, Tim Mackinnon : > Is there any docume

[Pharo-users] How do I find the RPackageTag of a class?

2019-02-14 Thread Tim Mackinnon
I’m trying to understand how RPackage and RPackageTag work in Pharo7? It seems different than Pharo6 at least with Nautilus (vs Calypso) - as previously the Nautilus UI gave me the RPacakgeTag, and I could just work with that. Calypso doesn’t seem to give me the tag object, but if I have a known

Re: [Pharo-users] How do I find the RPackageTag of a class?

2019-02-14 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Actually - I’ve realised that Calypso can give me the tag name from its context - (aToolContext lastSelectedClassGroup). However it does highlight a very strange package/tag design. Are you not supposed to be easily able to derive RPacakgeTags? Tim > On 14 Feb 2019, at 13:19, Tim Mackin

Re: [Pharo-users] Status of XML Support's move to GitHub

2019-02-14 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Isn’t tonel an open format? Would this not encourage other dialects to adopt it as well? The sooner the better? We know that filetree wasn’t really a great idea as a format (as Windows issues show). I’d say in this case move to it and let’s move forward. Hopefully all together. Tim Sent from

[Pharo-users] Stability of Pharo 7 vs 6?

2019-02-15 Thread Tim Mackinnon
I’m not sure if this is born out by others - but I’m finding that Pharo 7 is a bit less stable than Pharo 6 - I’m seeing quite a few seg-faults where the vm dies and terminates - both when the image is left running for a while, but also in fresh images where I do an Iceberg load of my projects.

[Pharo-users] Iceberg working with forks - can it be easier?

2019-02-15 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Hi guys - I’ve spent a few hours scratching my head trying to understand why some of my Pull Requests to a project I had forked kept showing my previous commits when I thought I was all caught up. It suddenly dawned on me, that when I had forked, and then done some work and then submitted a PR,

Re: [Pharo-users] Stability of Pharo 7 vs 6?

2019-02-16 Thread Tim Mackinnon
:17, Hilaire wrote: > > I can't tell, but in your initial email you mentionned using the 64bits > VM, so the image is 64bits too. > > So if you are using 32bits, you can try 64bitsVM https://get.pharo.org/64/ > > Le 16/02/2019 à 12:01, Tim Mackinnon a écrit : >>

Re: [Pharo-users] Iceberg working with forks - can it be easier?

2019-02-17 Thread Tim Mackinnon
- but if the idea was just to get yourself back into a consistent state - Its not clear to me how you can get all 3 copies saying the same thing in pharo? Tim > On 16 Feb 2019, at 06:19, Ben Coman wrote: > > > > On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 at 02:06, Tim Mackinnon <mailto:tim@te

Re: [Pharo-users] Stability of Pharo 7 vs 6?

2019-02-17 Thread Tim Mackinnon
amp;type=Issues> > > cheers -ben > > On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 at 20:10, Tim Mackinnon wrote: > I’ve actually being using both - but 32bit has generally been considered the > older more stable cousin (until Pharo 6 - where it was felt that 64bit was > now just as stable). >

Re: [Pharo-users] Calypso documentation? Or understanding menu building

2019-02-18 Thread Tim Mackinnon
multiple commands? Tim > On 12 Feb 2019, at 19:32, Denis Kudriashov wrote: > > Hi Tim > > вт, 12 февр. 2019 г. в 13:42, Tim Mackinnon : > Is there any documentation on Calypso application contexts? I am trying to > add a menu item to a package tag (the bit underneath a packa

[Pharo-users] Should epicea help me recover changes in a system crash?

2019-02-18 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Hi - I’ve got mixed experiences with epicea - having had a few image seg faults recently its presented some of my changes and let me recover them. However just now, I had been working for an hour and my whole laptop went black (and then had the apple logo). I took the opportunity to apply the la

Re: [Pharo-users] Should epicea help me recover changes in a system crash?

2019-02-18 Thread Tim Mackinnon
classes. > Epicea is git ignorant. So I do not see how it could interact. > I would love to see your bug solved. Could you keep your image and may be > martin > has some time to have a look (he got flying back to chile). > > Stef > >> On 18 Feb 2019, at 18:13, Tim

Re: [Pharo-users] Iceberg working with forks - can it be easier?

2019-02-18 Thread Tim Mackinnon
to do this stuff - or can I cleanly do these kinds of operations in Pharo (which I think you should be able to do, as its so easy to get into either of those states). Thanks in advance. Tim > On 18 Feb 2019, at 08:56, Guillermo Polito wrote: > > Hi! > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2019

Re: [Pharo-users] How to load a single package in a Metacello baseline

2019-02-19 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Yeah - I have a similar issue with ExternalWebBrowser, which I load as: spec baseline: 'ExternalWebBrowser' with: [ spec repository: 'github://seandenigris/Pharo-Web-Browser:master/repository' ]; import: 'Exte

Re: [Pharo-users] How do you avoid loading master code which is indirectly referenced by a version in the baseline?

2019-02-19 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Hi Sabine - you raise an important point, and I am interested in us getting better answers to this too. Hopefully Dale see’s this and is thinking about this in Rowen. Repeatable loading is an important enterprise feature. Tim > On 18 Feb 2019, at 15:46, Sabine Manaa wrote: > > For test and de

Re: [Pharo-users] About Iceberg

2019-02-19 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Yes I agree - when there is so much discussion and debate going on, its easy to lose sight of the hard work and determination that went into getting us to this brave new world. I too want to shout a big thank you for the tooling and also the support that goes along with that. I love been able t

Re: [Pharo-users] Partition/Sync ready databases for Pharo?

2019-02-19 Thread Tim Mackinnon
When you say Fossil - are you referring to "https://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki” ? I’ve seen it come up a few times - is it good? But rather than subvert Esteban’s thread - if it is the above, can you hook into it to save application runtime artefacts such that a distribu

[Pharo-users] How to uncache Commander menu items

2019-02-19 Thread Tim Mackinnon
I was going to write this question - but Denis pinged me on Discord - however I thought I would lob this into the list in case someone else hits the problem and is searching for it. (Maybe I should stick this in Calypso or Commander faq). My problem was that I had built a sub menu in Calypso an

[Pharo-users] How do you easily re-categorise methods in Calypso?

2019-02-19 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Hi - I’m scratching my head over how to easily re-caegorise methods in calypso? I’ve overridden some methods in subclasses and picked up the wrong category (which the critic is slapping me for). But when I click on the method - I can’t drag it to the new category, so if I click on the pencil in

Re: [Pharo-users] Iceberg working with forks - can it be easier?

2019-02-19 Thread Tim Mackinnon
get) Now I think I’m in good shape. Tim > On 19 Feb 2019, at 15:45, Tim Mackinnon wrote: > > Once again - super helpful - I’ll definitely bookmark this one. Half the > problem is that every time I think I understand what is going on and > confidently do a bunch of stuff I then dis

Re: [Pharo-users] How do you easily re-categorise methods in Calypso?

2019-02-20 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Feb 2019, at 19:21, Denis Kudriashov wrote: > > Hi Tim. > > It needs to be improved. > I simply reused the choose dialog from add protocol command because the > change protocol dialog was the part of Nautilus. > > вт, 19 февр. 2019 г., 15:06 Tim Mackinnon tim@testit.works

[Pharo-users] Pluralising messages or choosing word alternatives

2019-02-20 Thread Tim Mackinnon
I was browsing some of the Pharo issues (always worth doing) - and noticed an interesting one about Test results reporting and pluralisation (https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/2578) In it, I hadn't noticed String>>asPluralBasedOn: before (and judging from many messages in the image,

Re: [Pharo-users] Pluralising messages or choosing word alternatives

2019-02-20 Thread Tim Mackinnon
g. > | occurences | > occurences := 3. > 'There <1?is:are> <2p> <1?occurrence:ocurrences> of <3p>' expandMacrosWith: > occurences = 1 with: 3 with: 'Foo' > > > Esteban A. Maringolo > > > El mié., 20 feb. 2019 a las 18:08, Tim Ma

[Pharo-users] Windows 64bit, long filename issue but after a second load, how to categorise and report this?

2019-02-21 Thread Tim Mackinnon
We noticed a weird problem when testing the pharo exercism project. When loading on Windows10 in a fresh 64bit image with the following evaluate in the playground: Metacello new baseline: 'Exercism'; repository: 'github://exercism/pharo-smalltalk:master/dev/src'; load. The project seemed t

Re: [Pharo-users] Windows 64bit, long filename issue but after a second load, how to categorise and report this?

2019-02-21 Thread Tim Mackinnon
? Tim > On 21 Feb 2019, at 13:20, Ben Coman wrote: > > > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 20:36, Tim Mackinnon <mailto:tim@testit.works>> wrote: > We noticed a weird problem when testing the pharo exercism project. > > When loading on Windows10 in a fresh 64bit image

Re: [Pharo-users] Windows 64bit, long filename issue but after a second load, how to categorise and report this?

2019-02-21 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Feb 2019, at 16:01, Henrik Sperre Johansen > wrote: > > Tim Mackinnon wrote >> Hi Ben - while I understand the description below - why would it work the >> first time (no errors) and then fail the second time in a fresh image? Are >> we really sure its just down

[Pharo-users] What does the Package and Sub-Package comment do?

2019-02-22 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Hi - I notice that you can sort of put comments on packages - but I’m not sure if this is working or if its supposed to work? When I type something it seems to create and extra Manifest tag, and then the comment that I type seems to be the same for the package and all of its sub tags? Is this

[Pharo-users] Interval form: x to: y when x > y - or how to count down...

2019-02-22 Thread Tim Mackinnon
I've just been caught out with Intervals - why can't you do: 5 to: 1 do: [ :i | Transcript show: i printString] (eg a negative interval)? if you want to iterate down a series of numbers do you really have to do: 5 to: 1 by: -1 do: [… I always assumed that if x > y the step was automatically -1

[Pharo-users] How to test a new Iceberg baseline?

2019-02-22 Thread Tim Mackinnon
How does one go about testing an Iceberg/metacello baseline? Two parts to this actually - I want to check one under my control - and am wondering if there is a lint checker or some way to tell me what it will load (without having to check it in and try. Or if you do this - can you test loading

Re: [Pharo-users] Interval form: x to: y when x > y - or how to count down...

2019-02-22 Thread Tim Mackinnon
you say, it’s personal. I’m still curious though. Tim Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Feb 2019, at 16:13, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > >> On 22/02/2019 15:57, Tim Mackinnon wrote: >> I've just been caught out with Intervals - why can't you do: >> 5 to: 1 do: [ :i | Tran

[Pharo-users] Why is #findString: in accessing?

2019-02-25 Thread Tim Mackinnon
I always struggle (even after years of casually using smalltalk) to find the String methods that do the heavy lifting (and are comparable to other languages). The methods are normally there, but they often have names that don’t compare well with other languages. I think that what doesn’t help i

Re: [Pharo-users] Why is #findString: in accessing?

2019-02-25 Thread Tim Mackinnon
something is classified > as such, does not really surprise me. > > Did you know about the Finder 'by example search' ? Here is how to find your > selector: > > > > HTH, > > Sven > >> On 25 Feb 2019, at 12:19, Tim Mackinnon > <mailto:tim

Re: [Pharo-users] What does the Package and Sub-Package comment do?

2019-02-25 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Not sure whether to report a bug or not. > On 22 Feb 2019, at 14:48, Tim Mackinnon wrote: > > Hi - I notice that you can sort of put comments on packages - but I’m not > sure if this is working or if its supposed to work? > > When I type

Re: [Pharo-users] Windows 64bit, long filename issue but after a second load, how to categorise and report this?

2019-02-25 Thread Tim Mackinnon
, while there is a long filename issue - is there another hidden issue underneath all of this where files we aren’t even using are getting reference somehow? Tim > On 22 Feb 2019, at 00:01, Tim Mackinnon wrote: > > Some interesting thoughts below - but my understanding is these i

Re: [Pharo-users] Windows 64bit, long filename issue but after a second load, how to categorise and report this?

2019-02-25 Thread Tim Mackinnon
I’ve created - https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/issues/1204 > On 25 Feb 2019, at 17:12, Tim Mackinnon wrote: > > Just to add some additional notes on this (and I will also file an issue, as > I don’t think one has been submitted, and I don’t think this is fully down to > f

Re: [Pharo-users] Windows 64bit, long filename issue but after a second load, how to categorise and report this?

2019-02-26 Thread Tim Mackinnon
rphaned files/packages in the repo - that iceberg no longer knows about, but git does? The longer term fix is to convert PharoWebBrowser to Tonel and see if we can improve the grouping. Tim > On 25 Feb 2019, at 17:19, Tim Mackinnon wrote: > > I’ve created - https://github.com/pharo-v

[Pharo-users] The confusing state of SUnit

2019-02-26 Thread Tim Mackinnon
Forgive me father, for I have sinned… but when I try to right good tests, that fail in a way I can understand them it seems that SUnit doesn’t want to help me… Maybe I am missing something, but in 2019 it should be easy to write tests - particularly when we want people to contribute to adding mo

Re: [Pharo-users] The confusing state of SUnit

2019-02-27 Thread Tim Mackinnon
ise in SUnit. > This is not to say your suggestion would be useless. Just make a proposal and > let's discuss. > > > Joachim > > > Am 27.02.19 um 01:14 schrieb Tim Mackinnon: >> Forgive me father, for I have sinned… but when I try to right good tests, >>

Re: [Pharo-users] Interval form: x to: y when x > y - or how to count down...

2019-02-28 Thread Tim Mackinnon
2.5% of them are by: a positive number other than 1, > 90 % are just to:do: with no by: > Inspecting some of the 90% showed that many of them > would go catastrophically wrong if 1 to: 0 do: > performed its body > > On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 at 03:58, Tim Mackinnon wrote: > I&#

[Pharo-users] How to write out simple Json?

2019-02-28 Thread Tim Mackinnon
I am stumped about how to write out some simple json (for a config file). I didn't think I need Neo, and STONJSON would be fine but it seems like creating items like: { 'id'-> self id. 'name' -> self name } gives an error about the association. I think you have to do: { ('id'-> self id) asDic

Re: [Pharo-users] How to write out simple Json?

2019-02-28 Thread Tim Mackinnon
’ is: ‘Tim’; at: ‘exercises’ is: #(1 2 3). And I guess at:is: can do the Association asDictionary thing? But I thought Neo might give me something like that, as it must be terribly common? Tim > On 28 Feb 2019, at 13:16, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > > STONJSON toString: { #id->1

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