Re: [Newbies] App documentation

2010-02-08 Thread lanas
Le Dimanche, 7 Février 2010 20:21:41 -0800 (PST), Jerome Peace a écrit : >> Is there a list of the web sites behind the major apps >> found in Squeak ? (asked for documentation purposes, as in Open Source projects) > Theres Stef's collection of free books: > > http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/F

[Newbies] App documentation

2010-02-07 Thread lanas
Hello all, If I look at what I am used to, the Open Source projects, most of these projects have at least some basic documentation on usage. Some have detailed user documentation with examples. Does it work the same with applications found inside Squeak ? For instance, is there a web site fo

Re: [Newbies] Get rid of an object

2010-02-01 Thread lanas
Le Lundi, 1 Février 2010 19:39:06 -0500, lanas a écrit : > When creating and testing objects in the Workspace, what is the > procedure for getting rid of any ? I noticed that if I create the following and inspect it: myCar := Car new. myCar setCompany: 'Renault'. myCar add

[Newbies] Get rid of an object

2010-02-01 Thread lanas
Hello all, Thanks for the comments, they're helpful. When creating and testing objects in the Workspace, what is the procedure for getting rid of any ? Is there a need to do so ? Can objects lay there around without ever being destroyed, their creation (eg. the text that created them) erase

Re: [Newbies] Using same class names

2010-01-31 Thread lanas
Le Dimanche, 31 Janvier 2010 17:00:25 -0800, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) a écrit : > I think you'd need to use subclasses, and therefore your tests should > use parameterized class names. Would you care to give an example ? - Thanks. Al ___

[Newbies] Using same class names

2010-01-31 Thread lanas
Hello all, Is there a way to have several classes with the same names and having their scope limited to the current selected category ? Eg. I'd like to experiment with the Abstract factory pattern and thus I would like to make several tests, each in a category, like: AL-AbstractFactory-1 AL-Ab

Re: [Newbies] System Browser: instance vs. class

2010-01-31 Thread lanas
Le Dimanche, 31 Janvier 2010 15:13:50 -0800, mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) a écrit : > A class is always a singleton. There is only one class named Car > in the system. However, there can be many car instances, usually > created by sending "new" to "Car". > > In the Car class, you'

[Newbies] System Browser: instance vs. class

2010-01-31 Thread lanas
Hello all, I would like to know what is the practical difference between instance and class in the System Browser. Based on the Abstract Factory example from Alpert's 'Desgin Patterns' book: 1) Not using class: Object subclass: #CarAssembler instanceVariableNames: 'factory' fac

Re: [Newbies] Using Squeak to teach undergrads OOP

2010-01-30 Thread lanas
Le Jeudi, 14 Janvier 2010 19:57:53 -0500, waufrepi III a écrit : > "I had lunch with several of the other CS faculty yesterday and I > brought up your enthusiasm for smalltalk, which I've never used. Some > of the faculty panned it because they claimed the I/O features were > either poor or nonex

[Newbies] Keyboard with accents

2010-01-30 Thread lanas
Hello, I've downloaded and start using Squeak 3.11 for Linux. The Linux system I'm using has a German keyboard that I'm using to write French. The Linux keyboard configuration does not carry over in Squeak. How can I write comments in French (preferably using the same Linux German mapping) in

Re: [Newbies] Re: Bugging out of Squeak

2006-11-17 Thread lanas
Le Jeudi 16 Novembre 2006 19:28, Todd Blanchard a écrit : > FWIW, this option has saved my bacon a number of times. All > destructive operations should have a confirm - quitting without > saving is one of those things. Not when the option itself is named "Quit without saving", I find. Al ___

Re: [Newbies] Re: Bugging out of Squeak

2006-11-15 Thread lanas
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:47:27 +0100 "Klaus D. Witzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hallo Klaus, > there are 4 possibilities which come to my mind: > 1 > 2 > 3 None of the above. > 4 - I cannot reproduce the message you cite 'Quit without saving the > image', can you tell us precisely where and

Re: [Newbies] Bugging out of Squeak

2006-11-15 Thread lanas
Le Dimanche 12 Novembre 2006 13:00, Michael Haupt a écrit : > On 11/12/06, Another Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let's say you're totally lost, and want to exit Squeak without saving > > anything from the mess you've just made. > Are you absolutely sure you haven't accidentally, in the last

[Newbies] Help (and where to find it) ?

2006-11-09 Thread lanas
Hi folks, Where is help ? After years of Linux use and work, I've developed an habit of always looking at the same place for help files, even for newly-installed packages. Be it the man page, be it the info page, be it the doc/ subdirectory of the source package. Now, how does this go wit

Re: [Newbies] Beginners questions

2006-11-08 Thread lanas
Le Lundi 6 Novembre 2006 18:09, Jeff a écrit : > Hello group!I'm hoping that this beginners list is a good place for a > beginner to get answers to... well, beginner's questions. And so, with that > in mind, I'll ask a few questions. But first, experience has taught me that > I should be a little m

Re: [Newbies] Etoy tutorials on Squeakland and documentation in general

2006-10-20 Thread lanas
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:24:24 -0400 Milan Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you are asking about eToys documentation specifically - I do > not know about that, but there is a book named > > "Squeak: Powerful Ideas in the Classroom" I have just ordered this book today. Thanks for t

Re: [Newbies] Etoy tutorials on Squeakland and documentation in general

2006-10-20 Thread lanas
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:29:10 +0200 (CEST) Markus Schlager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A book I like a lot is 'Squeak programmation' by Xavier Briffault and > Stephane Ducasse (only in French). This might be pretty close to what > you are looking for. Einen Buch dass ist in Französich geschriebe

[Newbies] Etoy tutorials on Squeakland and documentation in general

2006-10-20 Thread lanas
Folks, I'd like to go through the Etoy tutorials on Squeakland to familiarize myself about them but mostly also to be able to show them to our children as I find that Squeak is a very nice approach to programming concepts. Thing is, what do I do with a .pr file ? Such as NewPaint_05.014.pr.

Re: [Newbies] Saving a number of classes' categories

2006-10-18 Thread lanas
Le Dimanche 15 Octobre 2006 22:23, Todd Blanchard a écrit : > Change the naming convention to > > Car > Car-Parts > Car-Assembler > Car-PartFactory > > This naming convention produces a single Monticello package named Car > with several sub-packages. > You'll see this if you open a Package Pane Br

[Newbies] Saving a number of classes' categories

2006-10-15 Thread lanas
Hello, I've started to take a look at Squeak and now that I'm trying an AbstractFactory, I've made a series of classes categories, mushc like so: Car CarParts CarAssembler CarPartFactory Each of these categories contains one or more classes. Now, I would like to save all these related categor