Re: [Newbies] Plumbin'

2011-04-07 Thread Hannes Hirzel
Thank you for digging this out and sending in a note for other people to have fun as well --Hannes On 4/7/11, michael rice wrote: > I managed to get Ward Cunningham's Plumbin' app running in MVC (v4.2). The > source (PlumbinSrc.zip) can be downloaded from: > > http://c2.com/doc/plumbin/index

Re: [Newbies] Terse Guide for Squeak

2010-11-30 Thread Hannes Hirzel
Or from within Squeak Tools menu / Monticello Browser / click on http://source.squeak.org/inbox / click on 'Open button' ==> The repository is opened ---> you select what you want and click 'Load' HTH --Hannes On 11/29/10, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 29.11.2010, at 20:27, Bruce Prior wr

Re: [Newbies] How do I lock a Morphic GUI?

2010-11-04 Thread Hannes Hirzel
Fine, this is the right place to look for Preferences disableProgrammerFacilities "Warning: do not call this lightly! " Beeper beep. (self confirm: 'CAUTION!! This is a drastic step! Do you really want to do this?') ifFalse:

[Newbies] How do I lock a Morphic GUI?

2010-11-04 Thread Hannes Hirzel
Hello How do I lock a Morphic GUI so that the halos do not come up anymore? I do want to prepare an image for general users where cannot bring up something unusual. Is there a preference for this? Searching for 'lock' and searching for 'halo' did not bring up anything useful. How is it done prog

Re: [Newbies] Is MathMorphs dead?

2010-10-11 Thread Hannes Hirzel
Hello Ikem Yes I think as well that MathMorphs is something worthwile exploring. The fact that it has been neglected for 10 years does not mean that somebody should not look into it and maybe start enhancing, promoting it. Edgar has included it into his recent 'FunSqueak' efforts where he builds

Re: [Newbies] interactive simulations in Etoys/Squeak

2010-09-09 Thread Hannes Hirzel
Thank you Ahmed for sending in this link I am interested in this and I'll have a look at it and will comment on it in a few weeks time (sorry my schedule does not allow it to do this earlier). Did you check out the sample projects which come with Etoys. They offer a good variety as well? And may

Re: [OT] Re: [Newbies] Smalltalk klass dokumentation ?

2010-05-11 Thread Hannes Hirzel
Java was and still is a success no matter how you put it. Coming up with class comments for Squeak is a hard job because it involves a lot of design recovery. Comments are supposed to generalise code details in a language which is easy to understand. The challenge is not talking about these thin

Re: [Newbies] Teaching Smalltalk

2010-05-04 Thread Hannes Hirzel
Yes, the documentation value of the OO solution is much higher (assuming that you are aware of the concepts and know Smalltalk in this case). It is actually a simple simulation. --Hannes On 5/4/10, laurent laffont wrote: > Cool. I've just understood the 100 doors problem looking at your code. I

Re: [Newbies] Teaching Smalltalk

2010-05-04 Thread Hannes Hirzel
No I do not think it is silly. It is a simple example and illustrates the OO paradigm. This would be a nice case for a video. That brings out the usefulness of the tools. --Hannes On 5/4/10, John McKeon wrote: > Looking at rosettacode most > languages loo

Re: [Newbies] Teaching Smalltalk

2010-05-04 Thread Hannes Hirzel
On 5/4/10, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 03.05.2010, at 20:30, David Mitchell wrote: >> Bummed that Why Smalltalk is gone. > > Yeah. It's still in the archive though: > > http://web.archive.org/web/*/whysmalltalk.com > >> Here is my crack at translating. Wouldn't say this is idiomatic Smalltalk >>

Re: [Newbies] Teaching Smalltalk

2010-05-03 Thread Hannes Hirzel
Hello Samuel I would include the link http://www.world.st/ The World of Smalltalk Recently created web site, gives a good overview and has entry points to further information. This includes links to videos. --Hannes On 5/3/10, Samuel Williams wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I'm looking for some

[Newbies] [4.1] How do I change the screen background?

2010-04-21 Thread Hannes Hirzel
Hello How do I change the screen background? I was searching for 'background' 'screen' 'world' in the preferences browser but did not find anything. Nothing in the 'Extras' menu either. So it must be a code snippet, which one? Hannes ___

Re: [Newbies] Video Media in Squeak

2010-04-20 Thread Hannes Hirzel
How do I convert movies into JMV? Hannes On 4/20/10, karl ramberg wrote: > JMV is a Squeak jpg videoformat > Plays with MPEGMoviePlayer > > karl > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Bruno Giacomelli > wrote: >> Which are the best classes to manipulate video media in Squeak? I'm >> planning >>

[Newbies] [4.1] How do I copy the stack trace to the clipboard?

2010-04-20 Thread Hannes Hirzel
Hello I want to copy the message list in the debugger window to the clipboard. There used to be a menu entry I think, but I can't find it anymore. Any suggestions? Hannes ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squ

Re: [Newbies] [4.1] How do I use ToolBuilder to construct a three pane browser?

2010-04-20 Thread Hannes Hirzel
tation' stamp: 'hjh 4/20/2010 04:18'! exampleDictionary | d | d := Dictionary new. d at: 'red' put: 'rot'. d at: 'blue' put: 'blau'. d at: 'green' put: 'gruen'. d at: 'yello

Re: [Newbies] [4.1] How do I use ToolBuilder to construct a three pane browser?

2010-04-19 Thread Hannes Hirzel
Bert This was a very helpful learning experience. Crucial is that lesson and section are the keys (strings) of the dictionaries. Very neat that only a model class with the GUI code defined in one method is needed. Thank you! Hannes On 4/19/10, Hannes Hirzel wrote: > Bert > Thank y

Re: [Newbies] [4.1] How do I use ToolBuilder to construct a three pane browser?

2010-04-19 Thread Hannes Hirzel
ist Your 'buildWith: builder' looks very need. So I'll go for that do not go for Integer indices. I'll try it - without looking at your solution :-) Hannes On 4/19/10, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On 19.04.2010, at 12:02, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> >> On 19.04.2010,

[Newbies] [4.1] How do I use ToolBuilder to construct a three pane browser?

2010-04-19 Thread Hannes Hirzel
Hello I would like to construct a three pane browser to inspect a dictionary of dictionaries (see data structure example code below). How do I do this using the ToolBuilder? I would like to learn to use it. The class comment of ToolBuilder "I am a tool builder, that is an object which knows how t