RE: [Newbies] [semi-OT] (fwd) Re: What Killed Smalltalk?

2009-11-22 Thread Christine Wolfe
I agree 100% It seems like most of the documentation is a tutorial or example but not a straight forward explanation of how to use it. Everything ends up being trial and error. I enjoy the language very much and would be tempted to use it again but realistically a good comprehensive guide would

RE: [Newbies] OrderedCollection if imageMorphs

2009-11-11 Thread Christine Wolfe
Squeak. Subject: Re: [Newbies] OrderedCollection if imageMorphs On 09.11.2009, at 02:08, Christine Wolfe wrote: Oh wow! thanks - having the sample code will be a huge help. I'll give it a try. -Original Message- From: Randal L. Schwartz [mailto:mer...@stonehenge.com] Sent: Sunday

RE: [Newbies] OrderedCollection if imageMorphs

2009-11-11 Thread Christine Wolfe
, 2009 11:25 AM To: A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about Squeak. Subject: Re: [Newbies] OrderedCollection if imageMorphs On 09.11.2009, at 02:08, Christine Wolfe wrote: Oh wow! thanks - having the sample code will be a huge help. I'll give it a try

Re: [Newbies] OrderedCollection if imageMorphs

2009-11-09 Thread Christine Wolfe
, Christine Wolfe wrote: Oh wow! thanks - having the sample code will be a huge help. I'll give it a try. -Original Message- From: Randal L. Schwartz [mailto:mer...@stonehenge.com] Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 8:03 PM To: Christine Wolfe Cc: beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: Re

RE: [Newbies] OrderedCollection if imageMorphs

2009-11-08 Thread Christine Wolfe
starting from 'SymbolArray new' 1) OrderedCollection new 2) OrderedCollection new: 3) Behavior basicNew There is no call to initialize. On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 16:28, Christine Wolfe cwd...@earthlink.net wrote: I want to put add an imageMorph on top of another imageMorph. I can do

RE: [Newbies] OrderedCollection if imageMorphs

2009-11-08 Thread Christine Wolfe
place to get answers to even the most basic questions about Squeak. Subject: Re: [Newbies] OrderedCollection if imageMorphs On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 14:28, Christine Wolfe cwd...@earthlink.net wrote: I'm so confused though. I've never had to explicitly call an initialize method before

RE: Re[2]: [Newbies] OrderedCollection if imageMorphs

2009-11-08 Thread Christine Wolfe
Hi Herbert, If I get it to work, I will send you a copy -Original Message- From: beginners-boun...@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:beginners-boun...@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of cwd...@earthlink.net Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 12:10 PM To: A friendly place to get

RE: [Newbies] OrderedCollection if imageMorphs

2009-11-08 Thread Christine Wolfe
that it is something that I've done, I'll be sure to let the forum know. -Original Message- From: Randal L. Schwartz [mailto:mer...@stonehenge.com] Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 10:55 AM To: Christine Wolfe Cc: 'A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about Squeak.' Subject

RE: [Newbies] OrderedCollection if imageMorphs

2009-11-08 Thread Christine Wolfe
To: Christine Wolfe Cc: beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Newbies] OrderedCollection if imageMorphs Christine == Christine Wolfe cwd...@earthlink.net writes: Christine I created a class, SymbolArray, that is a subclass of Christine OrderedCollection with the following initialize

RE: [Newbies] OrderedCollection if imageMorphs

2009-11-08 Thread Christine Wolfe
Oh wow! thanks - having the sample code will be a huge help. I'll give it a try. -Original Message- From: Randal L. Schwartz [mailto:mer...@stonehenge.com] Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 8:03 PM To: Christine Wolfe Cc: beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Newbies

[Newbies] isStepping question

2009-11-07 Thread Christine Wolfe
If I have a morph that is stepping through some process I know I can test for whether or not it is still stepping by using the isStepping method. But, how to I put this into a loop so that the next instruction doesn't start until the stepping is done. Here is my mouseDown code. I want to put

RE: [Newbies] isStepping question

2009-11-07 Thread Christine Wolfe
-boun...@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Bert Freudenberg Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 8:30 AM To: A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about Squeak. Subject: Re: [Newbies] isStepping question On 07.11.2009, at 14:18, Christine Wolfe wrote: If I have a morph

[Newbies] OrderedCollection if imageMorphs

2009-11-07 Thread Christine Wolfe
I want to put add an imageMorph on top of another imageMorph. I can do this with the following method (note SymbolBlank is an imageMorph MyBoardaddSymbol |im| im := SymbolBlank new. self addMorph: im. im topLeft: 2...@2. I want to enhance this so I can choose one of a collection of

RE: [Newbies] isStepping question

2009-11-07 Thread Christine Wolfe
: Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:40 AM To: A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about Squeak. Subject: Re: [Newbies] isStepping question On 07.11.2009, at 14:45, Christine Wolfe wrote: Wow! That worked. But I'm sorry to hear that morph doesn't support a loop like I

[Newbies] Vista compatibility

2009-10-31 Thread Christine Wolfe
I am using Squeak on a Vista PC. When I have Squeak open and switch to another window, after about 2 minutes, Squeak crashes and brings up the Emergency Evaluator. The information in the evaluator dump doesn't reference any of my code but I realize it still could have been something I was running

RE: [Newbies] Re: Vista compatibility

2009-10-31 Thread Christine Wolfe
...@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Raab Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:13 PM To: A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about Squeak. Subject: [Newbies] Re: Vista compatibility Christine Wolfe wrote: I am using Squeak on a Vista PC. When I have Squeak open and switch

RE: [Newbies] Re: Vista compatibility

2009-10-31 Thread Christine Wolfe
...@lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:beginners-boun...@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Raab Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:40 PM To: A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about Squeak. Subject: [Newbies] Re: Vista compatibility Christine Wolfe wrote: Hi

RE: [Newbies] Re: Vista compatibility - got World bounds etc.

2009-10-31 Thread Christine Wolfe
Of Andreas Raab Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:40 PM To: A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about Squeak. Subject: [Newbies] Re: Vista compatibility Christine Wolfe wrote: Hi Andreas, Thank you for responding. Thanks for providing the info ;-) Here's what I just did

[Newbies] Drawing a line on a morph

2009-10-30 Thread Christine Wolfe
If anyone has followed the dice example in Chapter 11 of Squeak By Example you will recognize that I'm trying to build a variation of the dice. The difference is that I am trying to draw figures on the faces instead of dots. What I am trying to do is have a group (array, set, collection?) of

RE: [Newbies] Drawing a line on a morph

2009-10-30 Thread Christine Wolfe
Wolfe Subject: Re: [Newbies] Drawing a line on a morph On Friday 30 October 2009 09:22:26 pm Christine Wolfe wrote: What I am trying to do is have a group (array, set, collection?) of faces on a rectangle - sort of like a child's building block with an image on each of the faces. I want 1 face