Re: [Newbies] Re: siliconsqueak?

2016-04-26 Thread Dave Crossland
On 26 April 2016 at 17:56, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote: > I think this is a very advanced topic rather than a begginers one. > hahaha but beginners may be interested in history :) ___ Beginners mailing list

Re: [Newbies] How to switch between Browsers

2008-06-16 Thread Dave Raymer
Another alternative is to keep a workspace with some common command in it ... for example, from my default image... Open the default browser : Browser openBrowser. Open the OmniBrowser : OBSystemBrowserAdaptor openBrowser. Open the refactoring browser : RefactoringBrowser

Re: [Newbies] authenticating Squeak to a proxy

2008-04-01 Thread Dave Raymer
I had this problem a while back ... you can find the answer here. http://osdir.com/ml/lang.smalltalk.squeak.beginners/2006-09/msg00085.html kind regards -- dave On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am new to Squeak (but not OO programming), and reading

[Newbies] phone calls made ...

2008-01-28 Thread Dave Raymer
Fr. Jim, DJ -- I've left a message for Alan Jackson and am waiting for the exterminator to get back to me with a time when the technician can come out and take a look at our critter situation and give us an idea on what we need to do to get rid of them and what they are. In His Name, Dave

[Newbies] RE: MVC freezes

2007-01-16 Thread Another Dave
Mark Bailey-5 wrote: I guess there's no mouse button for this in MVC? If you are using the mouse anyway, what is wrong with a simple drag? Did you try to double-click items such as a word or at the beginning of a line or at the end (bottom) of all the text? Mark

Re: [Newbies] MVC freezes

2007-01-16 Thread Another Dave
Bert Freudenberg-2 wrote: Now, I just tried MVC in a 3.9 image on the Mac, and it is seriously broken, I saw freezes, sluggishness, missed clicks etc. Looks like nobody has ventured into these fields for a while. - Bert - Ditto here under XP, which answers my question, but

[Newbies] MVC freezes

2007-01-15 Thread Another Dave
Open MVC project, and click into it. Open Workspace, and enter and select a line of code. How do I _do it_? Center button does not work, and ctl-click locks up Squeak. I have a three-button wheel mouse on a generic PC. 3- button mouse mapping is enabled. I'm trying to learn MVC, not Morphic.

Re: [Newbies] MVC freezes

2007-01-15 Thread Another Dave
Thanks. Alt-d does it. I guess there's no mouse button for this in MVC? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/MVC-freezes-tf3018243.html#a8383177 Sent from the Squeak - Beginners mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Beginners

Re: [Newbies] notation

2006-11-30 Thread Another Dave
stephane ducasse wrote: Dave normally is not part of a method definition. Just the what is after it. in the browser. is used by authors to give contextual information. Now in Squeak you can do Point#x to get the compiled method x of class Point but this is query

[Newbies] notation

2006-11-29 Thread Another Dave
I'm having trouble understanding the '' in some Smalltalk programs, Such as this, from Smalltalk By Example: MyClassdoThis array := Array new: 3. array at: 1 put: 2. I can understand that we are creating a new 3-place instance of Array, named array, and putting 2 in the first slot. But I

Re: [Newbies] notation

2006-11-29 Thread Another Dave
(nil asTraitComposition) print it returns a MessageNotUnderstood dialog. (Object#doesNotUnderstand:) print it returns a System Window(3891), and a CompiledMethod dialog. I'm probably being too literal, or too dense? -- View this message in context:

Re: [Newbies] Re: Bugging out of Squeak

2006-11-15 Thread Another Dave
Ralph Johnson wrote: In the final 3.9 image, at the bottom of the world menu, there is a Save and quit option followed by a Quit option. The quit option does what he says, it asks if you want to save before you quit, quit without saving, or cancel. When you see save and quit followed

Re: [Newbies] More questions on beginner's lesson

2006-11-14 Thread Dave
to fire the script. Being a newbie myself, I have been putting Squeak info and tutorials that I find on my Squeak wiki. Take a look around and feel free to contribute. Dave Raftery http://squeak.pbwiki.com/ Forging on ahead, I tried lesson #2. This seems to be a very important lesson: Create two

Re: [Newbies] More questions on beginner's lesson

2006-11-12 Thread Another Dave
Forging on ahead, I tried lesson #2. This seems to be a very important lesson: Create two boxes, put some text in one, push a button and transfer it over to the other. Several useful concepts here. But the tutorial doesn't work for me. I can't make sense out of what is supposed to be dragged

[Newbies] Bugging out of Squeak

2006-11-12 Thread Another Dave
Let's say you're totally lost, and want to exit Squeak without saving anything from the mess you've just made. Wouldn't you click World quit, then answer 'No' to 'Save changes before quitting'? My Squeak 3.9g still saves everything for next session. -- View this message in context:

Re: [Newbies] Bugging out of Squeak

2006-11-12 Thread Another Dave
It's been happening pretty consistently with my 3.9g-7058-061020. But I guess this is a minor aggravation that I should deal with by upgrading (which seems to have its own problems) or switching to a different image. -- View this message in context:

Re: [Newbies] Some sample code to help understand Morphic applications

2006-10-17 Thread Another Dave
Neither Squeak 3.8 nor 3.9 will give me that file in button, but now that I know the .mcz extension means Monticello I can make my incoming directory a repository and open it. From there I can load the image. Starting things off with SampleImageViewerMorph new in a workspace is really basic,

[Newbies] VM Building questions

2006-10-05 Thread Dave Raymer
.**I did not attempt to generate MacMenubarPlugin, MIDIPlugin, or TestOSAPlugin.Is this expected, or am I doing something wrong? regards, Dave**All fail with in the same spot...(indicated in red below) with a MessageNotUnderstood. spec ccgDecleareCForVar: argName

Re: [Newbies] VM Building questions

2006-10-05 Thread Dave Raymer
is not exactly considered a beginner's topicamong Squeakers. You might want to subscribe to the VM-Dev list for that.- Bert -Am 05.10.2006 um 20:42 schrieb Dave Raymer: Gentlefolk, I've started playing with VM building and I've got a few questions, perhaps observations for which I was unable to find answers

[Newbies] Strange behavior on Linux ...

2006-10-03 Thread Dave Raymer
, and that this information is coming from an external source, not a configurable on my local box. Given the recent issuess with a few of the community servers, I thought that I would try it on my Windows box, and I do not have the same behavior there. Any help would be greatly appreciated.thanks, Dave

[Newbies] Re: firewall question -- htaccess authentication @ proxy-server/firewall

2006-09-14 Thread Dave Raymer
please disregard -- I changed my search parameters and saw a post that referenced a fix provided by David Faught. I hacked my local image et voila ... apologies and thanks.On 9/14/06, Dave Raymer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentlebeings,Using Squeak3.8-6665full.image I've been tryting to get

Re: [Newbies] Re: firewall question -- htaccess authentication @proxy-server/firewall

2006-09-14 Thread Dave Raymer
time.-- daveOn 9/14/06, Ron Teitelbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dave, Can you post a link to what you found? Maybe the link will help others! Ron From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dave Raymer Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 9:49

Re: [Newbies] problems with SqueakMap account

2006-09-14 Thread Dave Raymer
://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/Videos/StefOn 14 sept. 06, at 01:51, Dave Raymer wrote: Gentlebeings, I'm not sure if this is the correct place for this question ... but given that I'm a Squeak beginner it seems like the first place to start.I've tried to create a SqueakMap account, and much like building