Re: [Newbies] Check wheater an instance of a class is actually there or not

ge issue. Have a look at the mediator design pattern: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediator_pattern -- Tim Rowe ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

Re: Where's the beef? (Was: Re: [Newbies] [semi-OT] (fwd) Re: What Killed Smalltalk?)

sorts of systems that you are. -- Tim Rowe ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

Re: [Newbies] How to construct a PolygonMorph?

t when one needs actual documentation of this stuff, instead of tring to work everything out by reverse engineering the source? -- Tim Rowe ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

[Newbies] How to construct a PolygonMorph?

ep bothering you folks!) Thanks. -- Tim Rowe ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

Re: [Newbies] Is there a Squeak idiom for array slices?

2009/12/18 Bert Freudenberg : > On 18.12.2009, at 02:51, Bert Freudenberg wrote: >> >> On 18.12.2009, at 02:47, Tim Rowe wrote: >>> >>> If, for example, variable a contains an array with 20 elements, but I >>> want to inject:into: just elements 3 through 1

[Newbies] Is there a Squeak idiom for array slices?

If, for example, variable a contains an array with 20 elements, but I want to inject:into: just elements 3 through 17, is there an easier way than step-by-step creating a new array, copying the required elements of a into it, and then doing an inject:into: on that? TIA, -- Tim Rowe

Re: [Newbies] Getting the refactoring menu

2009/12/16 Patrick Shouse : > Hope that helps. It certainly should -- I'll try it. Thanks. -- Tim Rowe ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

Re: [Newbies] Getting the refactoring menu

be able to learn Squeak just from a book, I also need "A friendly place to get answers to even the most basic questions about Squeak."! -- Tim Rowe ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

[Newbies] Getting the refactoring menu

find it on SqueakSource, but I have no idea how to load it from there. Can anybody help? TIA, -- Tim Rowe ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

Re: [Newbies] Expected menu items not there

rried the same problem might recur when I had more to lose! So I was keen to get at what the actual problem was. -- Tim Rowe ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

Re: [Newbies] Expected menu items not there

2009/12/15 Bert Freudenberg : > Ah, great. Ignore my other message then. > > But please let us know the image you were using (as Subbu suggested, it's in > Help - About this system). 3.10.2 #7179 -- Tim Rowe ___ Beginners maili

Re: [Newbies] Expected menu items not there

2009/12/15 Bert Freudenberg : > The menu you said is displayed seems to match the "yellowButtonNoviceMenu". > > So, can you make sure you do not have the noviceMode preference enabled? Aha! Yes, that was it. Relief all round. Many th

Re: [Newbies] Expected menu items not there

d Transcript show: 'hello world'; cr. Then highlighted it, yellow-clicked on it (right-click on my system), and sure enough, "do it (d)" no longer appeared on that menu either. I no longer seem to be able to execute anythin

Re: [Newbies] Expected menu items not there

to my mental list of reasons for poor adoption of Squeak :-( -- Tim Rowe ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

Re: [Newbies] Expected menu items not there

2009/12/9 K. K. Subramaniam : > On Wednesday 09 December 2009 07:52:58 am Tim Rowe wrote: >> Can anybody work out what I've done, and what I need to do to get the print >>  it and inspect it menu items back? >  What you are seeing is the shift-yellow-click menu. You will

Re: [Newbies] Expected menu items not there

xt and produced the halo, respectively). -- Tim Rowe ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

[Newbies] Expected menu items not there

As a total Squeak newbie (as of this evening!) I'm having some trouble following through the Squeak by Example eBook. Early on, the boo gets me to type: Time now in a workspace, yellow-click and select print it. That worked fine. Now I'm in chapter two, I've created the SBECell class and tring to