Re: [Newbies] Squeak and the Keyboard

2006-05-04 Thread Herbert König
Hello Shawn, welcome here. SM> Is there an exhaustive list of keyboard shortcuts? SM> If not, how does one find out what keyboard shortcuts are defined in SM> an image? In the World Menu, Help, "command key help" will open a workspace which contains a big list of command keys. SM> Is there a v

Re: [Newbies] TabbedBrowser

2006-05-07 Thread Herbert König
Hello David, DB> Is there a TabbedBrowser out there somewhere? By that I mean DB> a SystemBrowser with tabs. I love tabbed browsing in the web don't think so. DB> Squeaking with my 19" monitor is fine, I can open a ton of DB> standard SystemBrowsers, but on my laptop with its 12" screen, my DB>

Re: [Newbies] greetings, looking for a simple tutorial

2006-05-23 Thread Herbert König
Hello Troy, TB> I've never found a straight forward "this is how you make a simple TB> UI" tutorial for Squeak. Does anyone have a pointer? The sort of TB> thing I am looking for would explain how to build a UI with a couple TB> of input fields, a couple of buttons, and a display field for outpu

Re[2]: [Newbies] Magritte default single option

2006-05-26 Thread Herbert König
Hello Mathieu, m> Sorry I find it out. m> just using default: message no need for apologies. You learned (maybe only by formulating the question), the casual reader may learn and: That's what this list was made for. Cheers, Herbertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: [Newbies] RadioButton's

2006-05-31 Thread Herbert König
Hello Andreas, AB> Has anybody a good tutorial how to use those RadioButton's in AB> a way like i can use them in visual studio. Sorry I'm in a hurry and I've forgotten how I found out how to do it. I Assume you're German so you will understand the german names in the code. Otherwise tell me.

Re: [Newbies] Starting

2006-06-04 Thread Herbert König
Hello Mathieu, m> I was wondering how do squek start. Where is the entry point in the m> image. Abd so on. If your question is "What does the Squeak VM do when it loads an image", I'm not qualified to reply. If nobody else here replies, the people who know can be found on Squeak dev. If you mea

Re[2]: [Newbies] Starting addition

2006-06-04 Thread Herbert König
Hello Mathieu, HK> Another option is (not tested myself): HK> SmalltalkImage current snapshot: true andQuit:false. HK> self inform: yourStartupMessge. forgot to tell you: this has to be done in a workspace with a _single_ doIt. From Stef's reply I learned why this works. The instruction pointer

Fwd: Re: [Newbies] self executable with squeak

2006-06-07 Thread Herbert König
Sorry this went directly to Benjamin instead of the list This is a forwarded message From: Herbert König <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Benjamin SALLAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2006, 10:35:48 AM Subject: [Newbies] self executable with squeak ===8<==Origin

Re[2]: [Newbies] variableWordSubclass:

2006-06-26 Thread Herbert König
Hi John, >> So far I've seen the hierarchy of FloatArray the method "new:" >> isn't on the class side anywhere. This is the reason because you >> get an error. cre> i'm a real rookie here, but what does it mean - "new:" isn't on the cre> class side anywhere? where is "new:" then? if you can

Re: [Newbies] Ruby macros

2006-07-02 Thread Herbert König
Hi, i> (b) how to put these onto convenient popup menus? right click on the desktop, to get the context menu. The entry at the bottom is "personalize" which will bring up a browser on Preferences class side method personalizeUserMenu: This contains examples and explanations. You first will hav

Re: [Newbies] BobsUI

2006-07-12 Thread Herbert König
Hello Mike, MOB>I am running Squeak3.8-6665full on a Squeak-3.7-7 VM, on a MOB> FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE platform. I took the base image, opened a MOB> SqueakMap Browser, and told it to update all packages. This failed, MOB> in the YAXO package. The SMMcInstaller tries to do a fileIn from MOB> a

Re: [Newbies] Managing squeak windows

2006-08-08 Thread Herbert König
Hello, i> Any best practices for managing all those windows? I'm no authority on best practices but having less of them is my practice. -Using the explorer on one complex object can save several inspectors (but beware, it doesn't update automatically). -Using TracingMessagesBrowser will make br

Re: [Newbies] HELP!! can't use windows in a proper way

2006-09-05 Thread Herbert König
Hello Gonzalo, GR> hi this is the first mail a send to this list, so I'll introduce my GR> self, I'm an Argentinian systems engineering student from UTN welcome, I'm a 50+ self employed German electronic engineer with far too little time for squeak :-)) GR> (national tecnological university) i

Re[2]: Re-2: [Newbies] Monticello -- where is it?

2006-09-13 Thread Herbert König
Hello Patty, pp> no, my tutorial is not available in english. I could translate it, but I pp> think that this is not necessary, because there still exists some pp> english material. But if you don't agree, I can translate it. I thought of offering to translate it but then I looked into the Englis

[Newbies] Is there a message box in squeak

2006-09-25 Thread Herbert König
Hello all, is there a predefined MessageBox (like FillInTheBlankMorph) but no editing and one button? I searched all morphic categories in vain. Thanks, Herbert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@li

[Newbies] Is there a tandard way to attach context menus

2006-09-25 Thread Herbert König
Hello all, is there a standard way to attach a context menu to a morph? It's fairly easy to do by checking for yellowButtonPressed and manually firing up a MenuMorph. But it is sufficient to implement #addCustomMenuItems:hand: to get an enhanced Halo menu while #addYellowButtonMenuItemsTo:event:

Re[2]: [Newbies] Is there a message box in squeak

2006-09-25 Thread Herbert König
Hello Bert, BF> self inform: 'hello world' Thanks, but is there something in a SystemWindow looking like FillInTheBlankMorph? - Herbertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.

Re: [Newbies] Hi I'm new

2006-10-16 Thread Herbert König
Hello Alexandre, welcome here! AJ> One of the few projects I have been working on is a VM port for the AJ> Nintendo DS. (A small [PDA like] video game console) Not really beginnerish :-)) There are also the squeak-dev and squeak-vm mailing lists. AJ> Unfortunatly I'm still having a few issues w

Re: [Newbies] TinyDisplay crashes with an MVC project

2006-10-25 Thread Herbert König
Hello Stephane, SS> Is this a know issue ? Where is the place to report bugs (or check if SS> some have already been raised) ? can't help with the issue but: Mantis is the place to report and view bugs but this list maybe better squeak-dev should get an announcement of the bug entered. Mantis

Re: [Newbies] Version Control and new VMs

2006-10-31 Thread Herbert König
Hello Fabio, FO> I started to play recently with Squeak and Smalltalk. My impression is FO> the Squeak and the Seaside Framework are moving targets, very exciting FO> pieces of code, but if I start a project this week, in the next week FO> will be available a new VM, or a new image, a new Seaside

Re[2]: [Newbies] Version Control and new VMs

2006-10-31 Thread Herbert König
Hello Giuseppe, GLP> Well, you can easy move your projects, fileOut your objects and fileIn GLP> to the new image target. That's the old way, you can diff that way too (via FileList) but Squeaks version control is Monticello. Especially if you want to work with several people on the same project

Re[2]: [Newbies] Version Control and new VMs

2006-10-31 Thread Herbert König
Hello Giuseppe, GLP> And what about Monticello 2? dunno, I'm just using MC1 for a few weeks. Is should scale better, from what I read on squeak dev the people doing squeak 3.9 wished more performance on bigger projects. For MCZ up to 600K there are no performance problems in my experience. Chee

Re[2]: [Newbies] Re: Bugging out of Squeak

2006-11-15 Thread Herbert König
Hello Dave, AD> Right. I was using this as a sort of "clear all, and restart from the AD> beginning" command, to clean my newbie errors out the system, and I did because I still have this problem (I have it in other programs too) I close squeak by closing the squeak window. This only can abort

Re: [Newbies] moving eye in squeak

2006-11-16 Thread Herbert König
Hello, m> i want to write code for moving eyes just like the eyes in squeak logo.can m> any one helps me please. sorry, your question is a bit unclear to me. MovingEyeMorph is ready made for use and change. So: The moving part of the moving eye is done in MovingEyeMorph>>step. (read this as in

Re[2]: [Newbies] Image vs. source code (was Re: Very Basic Squeak information)

2006-11-21 Thread Herbert König
Hello David, DD> How about Common LISP (with CLOS) and FORTH for two? FORTH isn't OOP, DD> but at least one author described how an OOP FORTH could be done (Dick DD> Pountain). FORTH doesn't save "images" as much as they utilize the it's long ago, but IIRC save in Forth actually saved the imag

Re: [Newbies] creating a browser

2006-12-02 Thread Herbert König
Hello Julian, JD> How do I go about creating a browser like the SystemBrowser? this question is a bit general. Is it about how to create a tool that browses classes or is it about crating a UI that contains of several lists and text-panes? If it is the latter: find PluggableMorphsDemo.pr (or em

Re: [Newbies] indenting code

2006-12-12 Thread Herbert König
Hello Norbert, NH> I'm asking myself if there is any common sense about NH> how to indent the code in smalltalk/squeak. there also must be some common sense about it but in my case lazyness rules. I type without thinking about indentation and let the pretty printer take care that every method i

Re: [Newbies] How to access a Squeak class

2007-01-16 Thread Herbert König
Hello Warakorn, try: Smalltalk at: #MonthMorph inspect Cheers Herbert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WP> Hi ! WP> Actually it is probably a very simple Squeak concept which I haven't understood, yet. WP> Serving as an simple example, I would like to write a method, WP> which accepts a Class as

Re[2]: [Newbies] How to access a Squeak class

2007-01-16 Thread Herbert König
Hello Warakorn, HK> try: HK> Smalltalk at: #MonthMorph inspect I got some more time, so here is a longer Version: Smalltalk is a Dictionary which afaik contains the names of all global symbols. So if you got a String, send it asSymbol and then look it up in that Dictionary. Actually Smalltalk i

Re[2]: [Newbies] How to access a Squeak class

2007-01-16 Thread Herbert König
Hello Warakorn, WP> This doesn't work either, because again (Smalltalk at: WP> aClassName) is returning just a ByteString but not (e.g.)     WP> Object class    or   (e.g.) ClassBuilder class . Copied from a Workspace: (Smalltalk at: 'MonthMorph' asSymbol) superclass inspect This returns an ins

Re: [Newbies] Squeak Workspace stuck in walkback

2007-01-21 Thread Herbert König
Hello Brent, BM> Which produced an error on Collcetion>>add: as a BM> subclassResponsibility which seems correct.  But when I change it BM> back toOrderedCollection I get an error that Collection>>do:  BM> issubclass responsibility.  However this is EXACTLY the same code BM> asbefore that worked. 

Re[2]: [Newbies] Does anyone offer a squeak training course?

2007-01-23 Thread Herbert König
Hello Mathieu, MS> You know you can also learn from the image. All it's written in itself ( MS> Someone have swipe me this answer ;) ). MS> The best would be to learn how to read code. believe me *nothing* compares to learning from another human being! That said, to Andy: If I new of one, I'd ha

Re: [Newbies] Removing an object instance

2007-02-12 Thread Herbert König
Hello Stéphane, s> I would like to know when an object created in aworkspace is deleted (garbaged). the simplified answer is, when the object is not referenced any more and the system decides to do a garbage collection. If you need something collected: Smalltalk garbageCollect will do just that

Re: [Newbies] Spaghetti code

2007-02-18 Thread Herbert König
Hello Blake, B> Looking at the chart, it looks like spaghetti code, and reminds me of some B> of the stuff I did in BASIC. And that's sort of what he's doing within B> Smalltalk. I'm actually tempted to show him how it would look in BASIC B> using GOTOs and line numbers. It would have the advantag

Re: [Newbies] Re: Alternative for static const...

2007-02-27 Thread Herbert König
Hello Bert, BF> Or you can add them to the workspace itself. A workspace provides BF> variable bindings, but only for temporary (lowercase) variables (*). BF> To add your class variable bindings, get the halo on a workspace, BF> select "inspect model" from the grey debug handle menu. You get an BF

Re: [Newbies] Squeak slows to start up in Windows

2007-03-06 Thread Herbert König
Hello Hilaire, HF> I am pretty sure I read it somewhere in the Squeak mailing list why HF> Squeak can be slow to start in Windows... but I cannot find the information. one thing to speed it up is to have only one image and changes in the folder. Dunno the exakt explanation myself. HF> I have jus

Re[2]: [Newbies] Uploading Patches and Enabling Features in CommercialSystems

2007-03-07 Thread Herbert König
Hello Ron, RT> Nobody updated my list! I guess this could mean two things either my list RT> is perfect, or nobody cares. Please let me know if my comments are not RT> helpful so that I don't spend too much time on it. thanks for going into details, I'm interested but not currently. But I read e

Re[2]: [Newbies] Uploading Patches and Enabling Features in Commercial Systems

2007-03-08 Thread Herbert König
This one should have hone to the list. Right now I'll start playing with my mail client so that I don't reply off list inadvertently. Ron is not talking to himself. Sorry! Hello Ron, let's continue our totally newbie-ish discussion :-) Ron you're doing this nice and systematically, be sure I w

Re: Morph Window -> Class? (was: [Newbies] error loading .pr

2007-04-01 Thread Herbert König
Hello Andrew, AD> Would I be correct in thinking that real Squeak developers must not use AD> the interactive gui-building tools in Squeak because those tools don't AD> produce results that can be easily packaged? that depends what you mean by packaged. I packaged means an application you will

Re: Morph Window -> Class? (was: [Newbies] error loading .pr

2007-04-03 Thread Herbert König
Hello Andrew, AD> One drawback of images is that they tend to be quite large. The .pr AD> files are small so that strikes as better way of distributing programs. as I said it depends on what you (and I :-)) mean by packaged. I meant a shrinkwrapped Windows app, You seemed to talk about distrib

Re: Morph Window -> Class? (was: [Newbies] error loading .pr

2007-04-03 Thread Herbert König
Hello Göran, gks> There have been several UI building tools/frameworks over the years. I gks> can't really comment much on them. I tried some of them and none was satisfactory imo. I'm used to think of a gui as nested rows and columns in which to put widgets. Nice auto-layout, always aligned (t

Re: [Newbies] Re: Setting Breakpoints to Read Code

2007-05-05 Thread Herbert König
Hello Aditya, AS> Thanks for your input. However, I am trying to get handle on Seaside with AS> lots of methods and a confusing (at least for me since I have no experience AS> with web frameworks) control flow. I would like to run one of the examples AS> and see what method is being interpreted a

Re[2]: [Newbies] [Q] A really silly question

2007-05-10 Thread Herbert König
Hello Edgar, EJDC> Yes, I know that. EJDC> What I ask is why you could't do b := - a. - is a message send. Who should be the receiver? What's your idea to give this a chance to work? Cheers, Herbertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re[2]: [Newbies] [Q] A really silly question

2007-05-10 Thread Herbert König
Hello Mathieu, MS> It's at compiled time no message is send. MS> -15 is a token MS> http://blog.3plus4.org/2007/05/06/whats-a-binary-selector/ the original question was MS> | a b| MS> a := 14. MS> b := - a. MS> b inspect I believe - a is not parsed as a token here. Up to now I believed that the

Re[4]: [Newbies] [Q] A really silly question

2007-05-10 Thread Herbert König
Hello Mathieu, MS> | prevToken | MS> prevToken _ self advance. MS> (prevToken == #- and: [token isKindOf: Number]) MS> ifTrue: MS> [^self advance negated]. MS> ^prevToken imho that doesn't contradict me (at least what I wanted to say :-) In the exa

Re: [Newbies] User interfaces | getting started

2007-05-21 Thread Herbert König
Hello Darren, DW> This is my first post here. I have been exploring the squeak Welcome here! DW> I have got to the stage with squeak where I want to do that DW> but I can't see how to proceed. For a console type program how do DW> I proceed and for a GUI program what is the main form/frame/wind

Re: [Newbies] Re: Some general questions

2007-05-23 Thread Herbert König
Hello Darren, DW> 10 timesRepeat: [ DW> x := 1 asString. DW> ''the value of x can be any string object" DW> user"how do I add x to be part off the name so I end up with DW> variable named user1 user2 ... " := User new. DW> x := x + x.] if I don't misunderstand you, you want to put your users in

Re: [Newbies] usage of PluggableListMorph

2007-06-06 Thread Herbert König
Hello Konrad, KK> I’ve got troubles using PluggableListMorph. Ijust need a KK> ListBox to put some strings into it. id you google for PluggableMorphsDemo.pr you'll have a demo project which I tried with 3.6 to 3.8. I can mail it to you on request. Here some code I'm currently working on (open

Re: [Newbies] Plugins ,FFI

2007-07-12 Thread Herbert König
Hello Thushar, TGR> Could any one please tell me where i should look for TGR> documents regarding Plugins and FFI. Ron already pointed you to the swiki, there you can search for "Plugin" Namely http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3336 is Andrew Greenberg's NamedPrimitiveTutorial. A lot of useful inf

Re[2]: [Newbies] Laser game tutorial - test runner - page 018.html

2007-07-17 Thread Herbert König
Hello Grunt, g> Sorry for got to add the URL for the tutorial: g> http://squeak.preeminent.org/tut2007/html/ please give us the url of the exact page, many pages say "now run the tests". Cheers, Herbertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re[2]: [Newbies] Re[2]: Laser game tutorial - test runner - page 018.html

2007-07-17 Thread Herbert König
Hello Grunt, g> it's http://squeak.preeminent.org/tut2007/html/018.html Just a guess: you might have forgotten the periods at the end of a line in the tests. If you want to send a picture to the list: Easiest is in the read halo button use export, then png file, they are the smallest. The list

[Newbies] Re[2]: Laser game tutorial - test runner - page 018.html

2007-07-18 Thread Herbert König
Hello Grunt, g> HelloThanks for all the help!I have looked at the source code I you're welcome. g> 3.9-final-7067Here is a screen shot:snapshot1.png I guess the simplest thing is, if you file out the three categories, attach them to a mail and post them here. As I don't know how recently you s

Re: [Newbies] code completion

2007-07-21 Thread Herbert König
Hello Grunt, g> In one of the images I played around with it had code completion, I don't g> remember which version it was. Is there a way to enable it in v3.9? if you want to keep your image (and that is 3.7 or younger which it is) try SqueakMapPackageLoader from the Open Menu and get Shout (Syn

Re: [Newbies] code completion

2007-07-21 Thread Herbert König
Hello Grunt, g> I see that RoelTyper and eCompletion aren't guaranteed to be compatible with g> my images v3.9. How important is it to only use compatible packages? I guess you have to try. As you suggest yourself, you can always go back if you just quit. And just in case you don't find the probl

Re: [Newbies] Question about resolving package dependencies

2007-08-10 Thread Herbert König
Hello Thomas, TP> Second question: TP> Can anyone explain the types of files used by Monticello and TP> SqueakMap, such as .mcz and .sar files? Is it possible to download mcz something like monticello changeset zipped. sar = Squeak archive, also something zipped. IIRC used if you want to packa

Re: [Newbies] Re: Best way to implement two-dimensional array

2007-09-06 Thread Herbert König
Hello John, JA> But if I understand what is going on with Classes, as soon as I call JA> "MyClass initialize", and save the Image, the class variables contain JA> whatever I put them, and will do unless I do something to clear them JA> out. two things to add: first: are you aware that Alt Shift

Re: [Newbies] Designing a calender

2007-10-04 Thread Herbert König
Hello Darren, g> This morning I woke up with a decision to create a calender in squeak for g> the fun of it. good way to wake up :-) g> How I visually see this is that a calender has years which in turn hold g> month, which in turn holds days and days have events. I'm not interested in g> adding

Re: [Newbies] Services Browser

2007-10-05 Thread Herbert König
Hello Mark, MS> Is there a document that introduces one to the various MS> browsers in squeak? Is there a documentation path for MS> these browsers in the squeak env? (other than reading MS> the source code) Squeak by example has a chapter on this. MS> If you (my new expert friends) were to open

Re: [Newbies] Re: Question / Thought about absence of any standard onlinehelp

2007-11-02 Thread Herbert König
Hello itsyou213, >> Is there some reason why the myriad tools in Squeak don't have even a >> placeholder button or menu item for online help? From my newbies point of Squeak has balloon help which is like windows hints but bigger. This is easy to attach to any morph. >> view it is very frustrati

[Newbies] Re[3]: [UI] chang tab font in a flap ?

2007-11-10 Thread Herbert König
Hello Tony, HK> Trying to help you how to fish, cause in the time I have I didn't HK> manage to do it myself. HK> I'll try later to make it work and report here. I'll write up my findings as I go along: (in the end there is a solution but I think most important is you see methods to find out somet

Re: [Newbies] Obsolete classes - I can find pointers to them, but how to get rid of them

2007-12-07 Thread Herbert König
Hello Sophie, i> PointerFinder reveals numerous pointers to obsolete classes. All of them i> seem to originate from something that appears (in the PointerFinder window) i> as either: i> #Refactoring -> Refactoring class i> or i> #EventManager -> EventManager class i> with lots of addition

Re: [Newbies] Exporting Object Memory

2007-12-17 Thread Herbert König
Hello Chris, CC> If I had data in object memory, because I've saved answers from a user into CC> objects, then can I file out that information? if you mean file out as a counterpart of file in, you just use ReferenceStreams. I use the two attached methods to file out a dictionary but it works wi

Re: [Newbies] How to deep copy elements when using collectons?

2008-01-01 Thread Herbert König
Hello Xinyu, if you come from another programming language, a collection stores only pointers to objects. No chance (and no need) to copy an object into a collection. XL> Object subclass: #MyItem XL>     instanceVariableNames: 'subItems' XL>     classVariableNames: '' XL>     poolDictionaries: '

Re: [Newbies] Morphic - How to animate without defining #step ?

2008-01-20 Thread Herbert König
Hello Oscar, not sure if I understand you correctly but if I need something displayed *now* I either use bitBlt (as long as its only simple rectangles) or World>>doOneCycleNow. Reading the comment there it sholdn't be done this way but whenever I have a busy algorithm and I want the display refre

Re: [Newbies] Squeak for robot imaging and scientific applications

2008-01-20 Thread Herbert König
Hello Robert, RFS> I am using Squeak to control a robot, specifically a RoboMagellan RFS> outdoor navigating robot. Pretty soon it will be important to confront RFS> how to implement the computer vision on this robot. The OS is Linux. Jon Hylands is doing robot control in Squeak, see www.huv.co

Re: [Newbies] Can I use SQL statements in squeak?

2008-01-24 Thread Herbert König
Hello, L> I just need to know how to access a database and make minor changes. If L> someone could point me to a tutorial or really good site that covers this L> aspect, it would be very helpful. Thanks. there's also a Mysql driver which I'm using in production work. It has some very short ex

Re: [Newbies] Re: Programatically keep image up to date

2008-01-26 Thread Herbert König
Hi Sophie, i> Of course I may not be doing any of these the way that ThoseInTheKnow do i> them :-) None of ThoseInTheKnow but I switched an image after maybe three years of work. I approached the changes file limit (be carful not to cross it!). Here's what to do: I have a "whatToLoad" pointing

Re: [Newbies] Re: Re: Programatically keep image up to date

2008-01-28 Thread Herbert König
Hello Sophie, resent, beginners has a 40k limit per post, squeak dev has 100k. In Squeak dev, June 24th 2007 I sent a picture subject re: Friends of Morphic. i> How do you illustrate your ideas in workspaces and Morphs? Code snippets? i> Drawing? Browsers on objects? everything on your list. Pi

Re: [Newbies] Where are the dialog boxes for input/output?

2008-01-28 Thread Herbert König
Hello LoneHunter01, L> I'm trying to do basic i/o using Squeak and I've looked through my browser, L> but I can't seem to find anything that allows simple (keyword: simple) reply := FillInTheBlankMorph request: 'What is your real name' initialAnswer 'LoneHunter01' For more browse the class side

[Newbies] 40K limit for posts on beginners

2008-01-28 Thread Herbert König
Hi, as mailman-owner doesn't work I send this to the list. Squeak beginners list has a 40k limit for posts, while Squeak dev has a 100k limit. I don't believe that beginners topics can be discussed twice as terse as the topics in dev :-)) So, if there is no technical reason, I propose to also se

Re: [Newbies] Getting a handle on objects which are instantiated through the various flaps

2008-02-08 Thread Herbert König
Hello Andy, AB> When I pull an object from a flap onto the desktop, how can I AB> get a handle on it so that I can send it messages AB> programmatically?  What I am hoping is that I could drag e.g. the AB> bouncing atom thing into a project, and then - in a workspace? - AB> be able to send it mess

Re[2]: [Newbies] Named Primitives et al

2008-02-20 Thread Herbert König
Hello David, dbuc> Thx. I've read that article but I can't find an dbuc> ExternalTypes class in my image. Do I need to load a particular dbuc> package to get NamedPrimitives or FFI to work? maybe you are not aware of the fact that FFI and namedPrimitives are two independent ways to talk to extern

Re[2]: [Newbies] The bouncing sound

2008-02-21 Thread Herbert König
Hello Mark, p> Here's a project file that demonstrates the problem. I'm working in the p> most recent ver. of Squeak from www.squeak.org (just downloaded a few p> days ago) 3.9-final-7067 I'm confused by the fact, that the reaction of the paddle to the joystick reverses after it has bounced

Re: [Newbies] The bouncing sound

2008-02-22 Thread Herbert König
Hi Mark, p> mechanism. Like all first attempts, it will likely morph and correct and p> revise and clarify itself into something else as the student acquires p> more familiarity with tile scripting. doesn't he know the rule "Never do anything for the first time" :-)) Actually I couldn't find a f

Re: [Newbies] The bouncing sound

2008-02-23 Thread Herbert König
Hi Mark, p> That's an interesting observation. Did you, perchance, play with it to p> see what a more intuitive (for you) solution would look like? I had the thanks for asking, that made me try :-)) p> All suggestions welcome ... Nearly everything i know about Etoys is from the Squeak video D

Re: [Newbies] The bouncing sound

2008-02-24 Thread Herbert König
HI Scott, SW> The "Squeak Video" is a splendid thing, but expecting to learn how to SW> use etoys from it would be like expecting to learn how to drive a car SW> by watching an elegant Mercedes Benz commercial... it's just that I don't do etoys with Squeak but I'm in it since 3.6 and I know that

Re: [Newbies] Using RoelTyper

2008-02-25 Thread Herbert König
Hello Peter, PG> I am using the Squeak dev image sq3.10-7159dev08.02.1.image, and cannot work PG> out how to invoke the RoelTyper. I can find illustrations on VisualWorks, PG> and acclamations in Squeak forums, but have not found any instructions, PG> screen-grabs etc. It is loaded with unit-test

Re: [Newbies] Detecting keyboard state / finding older fixes

2008-03-02 Thread Herbert König
Hello Stan, I forgot: sff>> operating system. I'd like to check the real position of a key, up or down, so I sff>> can ignore the repeats. I can't find any way to do this. HK> Keyboard event understands #isKeyDown and #isKeyUp. and don't forget to check the event's timestamp. Never did this my

Re: [Newbies] Detecting keyboard state / finding older fixes

2008-03-02 Thread Herbert König
Hello Stan, sff> operating system. I'd like to check the real position of a key, up or down, so I sff> can ignore the repeats. I can't find any way to do this. Keyboard event understands #isKeyDown and #isKeyUp. Cheers Herbertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: [Newbies] Squeak in commercial projects

2008-03-07 Thread Herbert König
Hello RENE, RP> Can one use Squeak to build and sell applications? My wife is a definitely yes. License situation is a bit murky but several companies do this already. RP> musician and has some ideas for a Music Theory Application and asked RP> if I could build it. The choices seem to be betw

Re: [Newbies] Squeak in commercial projects

2008-03-07 Thread Herbert König
Hello Bert, BF> IMHO there was never a question if Squeak can be used commercially. BF> The licensing problems are with getting from being free and open BF> source to being Free and Open Source. I was not referring to the current discussion but iirc we had discussions (not only the by now reso

Re: [Newbies] Orphaned objects

2008-03-10 Thread Herbert König
Hello Blake, B> The problem he's having is that he's got orphaned objects from B> experimenting, and he can't get rid of them. They're sketchmorphs. If I B> add them to the world, they'll show up, and I can then delete them with B> the "X" but they simply vanish from the world, while persisting

Re: [Newbies] Orphaned objects

2008-03-10 Thread Herbert König
Oops, HK> You get another array whose elements you have to inspect. Every Ivar HK> that points to a myObjectClass has to be set to in the inspector. it has to be set to nil :-) Cheers Herbertmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ B

Re: [Newbies] Studying Artificial Intelligence

2008-03-14 Thread Herbert König
Hello Thiago, TS> I was wondering if there is any squeak project/tool targeted at AI TS> students, anything that could help illustrate/express basic concepts TS> on knowledge representation, expert systems, etc. I have been looking I have found nothing about AI, closest to your goals are neural n

[Newbies] Squeak networking

2008-04-12 Thread Herbert König
Hello, can anybody give me a pointer on how to start networking in Squeak? Task is: On localhost a server is sending 1K sized UDP packets on port 0? (is port 0 possible?) and listening on 1979 for packets. Thanks, Herbert ___ Beginners mailing li

Re: [Newbies] Squeak networking

2008-04-12 Thread Herbert König
Hello David, DM> http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks/CollectiveNBlueBook/parsia%202.pdf thanks, had read that already. Squeak to Squeak is working already after some digging in the mail archives. -- Cheers, Herbert ___ Beginners mailing l

Re: [Newbies] managing windows in squeak

2008-04-28 Thread Herbert König
Hello Peter, phm> Hi. I'm new to smalltalk and squeak. I'd like to know how experienced phm> users manage the windows when programming with squeak. I often have a lot phm> of windows open and struggle to find the right one. Are there keyboard to have less windows: Using Explorer (Alt Shift I on W

Re: [Newbies] Re: managing windows in squeak

2008-04-28 Thread Herbert König
Hello Chris, CK> How do you start Tracing Messages Browser? CK> I have it installed in a 3.9 image but can't figure out how to run it. it just changes the function of senders / implementors in the normal Browser. In some time I had a problem by using the buttons in the Browser, I had to use Alt

Re: [Newbies] Namespaces

2008-04-30 Thread Herbert König
Hello Pinku, PS> What is the current state of namespaces in Squeak? Is there a PS> programming convention to prevent name clashes? many discussions in the past, see the archives of squeak-dev, one proposal from Göran Krampe (SqueakMap package loader, namespaces), work in progress from Michael va

Re: [Newbies] Easy way to override a method?

2008-05-16 Thread Herbert König
Hello Tim, TM> Is there an easy way in Squeak to override a method? if I don't misunderstand you, you just redefine it in your subclass? TM> (it is in Dolphin). Failing this I tried drag and drop - but that seems to TM> just move the method (I held the Control key while dragging but I guess tha

Re: [Newbies] Quick noob snippets

2008-05-19 Thread Herbert König
Hello Sven, don't know about your first Question though people now may think it has been replied to. SS> 100 timesRepeat: [randomNo := 100 atRandom. anEllipse height: SS> randomNo. anEllipse borderWidth: anEllipse borderWidth + 1 ] SS>   SS> It did work but it did the moves all at once. At firs

Re: Synchronous animation was: [Newbies]Quick noob snippets

2008-05-21 Thread Herbert König
Hello Bert, BF> Keep in mind we are on the beginners list. I do know where this is BF> used, and why. But if someone asks this on the beginners list it is BF> bad advice to give. thanks for your clear words. I'll refrain from further giving that advice here. I started with every Morph having it

Re: Synchronous animation was: [Newbies]Quick noob snippets

2008-05-21 Thread Herbert König
Hello Bert, >> That's how I ended up with doOneCycle. BF> ... but I have no idea how this comes into play here. easy question. Not knowing, groping around and taking the first thing that solves (seems to) the problem. :-)) Thanks for the remainder of your reply! -- Cheers, Herbert ___

Re: [Newbies] Flaps

2008-05-28 Thread Herbert König
Hello Ryan, RZ> Am I missing something? the left Flap can be used to move (copy) Morphs between Projects and I don't know another way to do this. Which doesn't mean it's impossible. -- Cheers, Herbert ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.s

Re: [Newbies] Failure to load large Squeak .image files

2008-06-01 Thread Herbert König
Hello Andrew, AC> The problem is that for images of 550 Mbyte, the image continues to run AC> and I can save it, but if I try to start Squeak with a 550 Mbyte image, AC> the image desktop and windows appear for a few seconds, then Squeak AC> quits. there have been threads on Squeak dev about memeo

Re: [Newbies] remembering variables

2008-06-03 Thread Herbert König
Hello Peter, phm> Can I get the debugger to show a tree of message sends, that I can browse? phm> Something like that? I should have a ready made reply for this: Cris Muller, author of Magma created the TracingMessagesBrowser. This shows senders and implementors in an indented List. What you h

Re: [Newbies] Explorer and MessageTally [was: remembering variables]

2008-06-03 Thread Herbert König
Hello Klaus, KDW> Yes, MessageTally does that for you: a tree of message sends. From the Spy KDW> results, you can select a class and browse it for more details, or a KDW> method and browse its senders or implementors for more details. interesting idea to use it this way! But MessageTally IMHO o

Re: [Newbies] Proper object removal

2008-06-03 Thread Herbert König
Hello Rob, RR> After much help already, I think I need some training in proper object removal. RR> DataAbstractor allInstances. if you inspect this you get an inspector on an Array. To the left select any entry with a left click (on Windows) and select "objects pointing to this value". You get

Re: [Newbies] Explorer and MessageTally

2008-06-05 Thread Herbert König
Hello Randal, RLS> Unless I'm missing something, I quickly stopped using it because it RLS> didn't let me *choose* which method to follow in either the senders RLS> or implementors like a standard browser does. I often look at a method, RLS> see a few methods I don't totally get, and ask for *sen

Re: [Newbies] Creating a coverflow effect in Squeak

2008-06-14 Thread Herbert König
Andy, AB> (not a very good description, but if you have seen iTunes, you AB> know what I mean).  never seen but: AB> I had a look in Squeaksource but found nothing similar.  AB> Could anyone give me some pointers on how to start this project. AB> For example, is there a 'film strip' morph that a

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