Re: [Pharo-users] Protego - smart way to manage NIL's in business calculations

2016-12-18 Thread Ben Coman
Thanks for sharing. A similar thing might be useful for dealing with "quality" of Process Variable measurement in industrial situations - where instruments fail from time to time. I'm not sure of all the pros and cons, but btw an alternative to hanging special behaviour on a method, would be to h

Re: [Pharo-users] Protego - smart way to manage NIL's in business calculations

2016-12-18 Thread Ben Coman
approach. Now I'm not saying MissingValue is the best way to go. Smalltalk does have the advantage of being able to add behaviour to nil and that might be sufficient for you. Just providing an additional way to think about it. cheers -ben > > > 2016-12-18 18:12 GMT+03:00 Ben

Re: [Pharo-users] FFI on MacOS 10.12 using Pharo 5

2016-12-20 Thread Ben Coman
Previously with NativeBoost, Pharo FFI diverged from the mainline VM, which made support from vm-devs a bit harder. In Pharo 5 we've returned to the fold with UFFI, but there are some changes required. I recorded my own learning of UFFI here... http://blog.openinworld.com/2016/09/pharo-libclang-ff

Re: [Pharo-users] How to view hierarchy of multiple classes in a package?

2016-12-28 Thread Ben Coman
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 6:55 AM, Denis Kudriashov wrote: > > 2016-12-27 23:27 GMT+01:00 Tim Mackinnon : > >> Eg, if a package had classes A, B, C, D - I wish I could see >> >> A >> +B >> +C >> +D >> > > In Pharo it will be shown exactly like this by default. No need to press > hier. But I

Re: [Pharo-users] How to view hierarchy of multiple classes in a package?

2016-12-28 Thread Ben Coman
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Ben Coman wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 6:55 AM, Denis Kudriashov > wrote: >> >> >> 2016-12-27 23:27 GMT+01:00 Tim Mackinnon : >>> >>> Eg, if a package had classes A, B, C, D - I wish I could see >>&g

Re: [Pharo-users] Thank you and a Happy Pharo Year 2017

2016-12-31 Thread Ben Coman
Happy new year all. Keep having fun with Pharo. cheers -ben On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 12:35 AM, Volkert wrote: > Dear Pharo Community, > > i would like to thank you for all the work and effort to push Pharo forward. > Pharo is getting better and nicer from day to day. It is hard work and the > hard

Re: [Pharo-users] DWARF parser?

2017-01-06 Thread Ben Coman
Not that I've heard of. A search found a tiny mention in relation to the VM http://forum.world.st/Dalvik-vs-ART-Android-virtual-machines-and-the-battle-for-better-performance-Pocketnow-tp4729727p4729988.html but its not Smalltalk code... https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/search?p=1

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo and WebAssembly

2017-01-06 Thread Ben Coman
A couple of previous threads... http://forum.world.st/WebAssembly-td4926166.html http://forum.world.st/Webassembly-and-Pharo-td4928191.html cheers -ben On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 10:52 AM, horrido wrote: > Hey, Rust can now target WebAssembly >

Re: [Pharo-users] understanding existing code

2017-01-06 Thread Ben Coman
On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 3:24 AM, Siemen Baader wrote: > Hi All, > > I may be missing the obvious, but what are good strategies to understand the > structure of existing code? Specifically, I'm trying to understand more of > PharoJS to solve my own problems and eventually also to contribute back - >

Re: [Pharo-users] Mouse events in FastTableModel subclass [Spec]

2017-01-06 Thread Ben Coman
Thanks for the follow up. This will probably be useful for me to know later. cheers -ben On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 11:34 PM, Matteo wrote: > Update: problem fixed by adding an "Announcer" to the "double click" > event, i.e.: > > morWidget > onAnnouncement: FTStrongSelectionChanged >

Re: [Pharo-users] Big List of Naughty Strings

2017-01-16 Thread Ben Coman
Obligatory comic - Bobby Tables, Exploits of a Mum https://xkcd.com/327/ cheers -ben On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > This might be interesting to some people for testing purposes. You all heard > stories how certain input caused certain systems to crash. Here is

Re: [Pharo-users] [Seaside] Bad Request ZnEntityTooLarge

2017-01-21 Thread Ben Coman
On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 1:22 AM, Bernhard Pieber wrote: > Hi Johan, > > Thank you for your detailed answer. See below. > > Am 20.01.2017 um 10:12 schrieb Johan Brichau : > > > > imho, it’s better practice to detect too large file upload in your app > on the client side, i.e. before your user has

Re: [Pharo-users] DNU on materializing a fueled out exception

2017-01-22 Thread Ben Coman
You needed to change the status from 'Work Needed' to 'Resolved (Fix Review Needed)', which I see Andrei has done and the monkey has run. cheers -ben On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 1:15 AM, Holger Freyther wrote: > > > On 28 Dec 2016, at 13:44, Mariano Martinez Peck > wrote: > > > > I am not asking s

Re: [Pharo-users] Difficulties updating a file directory

2017-01-22 Thread Ben Coman
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 9:26 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having problems understanding how #chooseDirectory: works. When I run > this code: > > GrafoscopioDocumentation current localPlace: (UIManager default > chooseDirectory: 'Path to the docu

[Pharo-users] PharoLauncher preSpur images

2017-01-23 Thread Ben Coman
Pre-Spur images were not available in my PharoLauncher. I thought they used to be. Were they removed on purpose? Anyway, for other's reference here is the required hack... Add method... PhLHTTPListingTemplateGroup class >> pharo50preSpur ^ self name: 'Pharo 5.0 (preSpur)' url: ' http://files

Re: [Pharo-users] how to see methods implemented in super classes

2017-01-23 Thread Ben Coman
You might want to try Calypso. http://dionisiydk.blogspot.com.au/2016/12/calypso-new-system-browser-for-pharo.html Note this only works for the current trunk of Pharo 6, which you can get via PharoLauncher, or.. http://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo-spur32/ http://files.pharo.org/image/60/ cheers -ben

Re: [Pharo-users] I'd really love to use Pharo this way

2017-01-26 Thread Ben Coman
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 3:36 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote: > Hi, > > > > On 26/01/17 05:43, Serge Stinckwich wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:29 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Jose, >>> >>> I'm building something that has ideas borrowed from Jupyter noteb

Re: [Pharo-users] self in Nautilus

2017-01-27 Thread Ben Coman
On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 4:11 AM, stepharong wrote: > I should tell you that I do not like it at all. > Hey students inside comments self means the class and outside the > instance! WTF? > > I think that we should have another kind of pseudo variable but not self. > So in comments on the instance

Re: [Pharo-users] These beautiful tooltips

2017-01-30 Thread Ben Coman
Hi Hilaire, Can you provide a screenshot comparison of these? cheers -ben On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:22 PM, Hilaire wrote: > Hi, > > So in Pharo5 we have these 'beautiful' unreadable tooltips: tiny black > font on light gray (ie. take a look to its squeak counter part, it looks > so much more p

Re: [Pharo-users] Exercism programming exercises for Pharo

2017-01-30 Thread Ben Coman
Nice idea, but after poking around the site for a while, it looks like there is more to do than just seed solutions for some exercises. Some recipe for how students submit exercises would need to be written up. cheers -ben On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:01 PM, horrido wrote: > I created a Smalltalk

Re: [Pharo-users] These beautiful tooltips

2017-01-30 Thread Ben Coman
> Le 30/01/2017 à 15:56, Ben Coman a écrit : >> Hi Hilaire, >> >> Can you provide a screenshot comparison of these? On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:16 PM, Hilaire wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Here are Squeak and Pharo5 tooltips view. > > In regard First impression count

Re: [Pharo-users] These beautiful tooltips

2017-01-30 Thread Ben Coman
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 1:37 AM, Ben Coman wrote: >> Le 30/01/2017 à 15:56, Ben Coman a écrit : >>> Hi Hilaire, >>> >>> Can you provide a screenshot comparison of these? > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:16 PM, Hilaire wrote: >> Hi Ben, >> &g

Re: [Pharo-users] These beautiful tooltips

2017-01-30 Thread Ben Coman
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 1:30 AM, Hilaire wrote: > I don't buy this argument at all: tooltips were modified to become > unreadable, there are responsibility behind to be taken by someone. > FOSS is not an excuse for mere quality. The point is that people do FOSS to scratch their own itch, not some

Re: [Pharo-users] WCAG color contrast rules - was: Re: These beautiful tooltips

2017-02-03 Thread Ben Coman
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 4:54 PM, denker wrote: > > > > On 3 Feb 2017, at 09:21, Hilaire wrote: > > > > A UI quality team review would be needed before each Pharo release, I > > mean with a real constraint to postpone release until a good enough > > quality is reached! Its always a question of res

Re: [Pharo-users] WCAG color contrast rules - was: Re: These beautiful tooltips

2017-02-04 Thread Ben Coman
> > On Feb 3, 2017, at 13:29, Hilaire wrote: > > > > what are the differences between 'over' and 'through' buttons in the > > debugger. On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 8:09 AM, John Pfersich wrote: > > The over button means step over the message highlighted, the through button > means step into the mess

Re: [Pharo-users] Chronos Manager Singleton

2017-02-05 Thread Ben Coman
On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Cyril Ferlicot D. wrote: > Le 05/02/2017 à 01:08, Dimitris Chloupis a écrit : >> The initial intention was to not make it a singleton to allow for >> multiple instances of timers. Hence why it's wiped out. But making it a >> singleton is something Phil asked for too

Re: [Pharo-users] Persisting data in the Image

2017-02-06 Thread Ben Coman
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 4:07 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > > > > On 6 Feb 2017, at 20:20, sergio ruiz wrote: > > > > Is it enough to create a collection on a class to persist data and keep it > > away from the GC? > > > > something like: > > > > class Person>>people > > ^ > > > > wher

Re: [Pharo-users] Problem in installing Pharo

2017-02-09 Thread Ben Coman
Hi Mark, What platform are you on? cheers -ben On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 1:09 AM, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: > if you are on macos or linux you can use this command to download the stable > version > > curl get.pharo.org | bash > > > I use this all the time and it never fails, unless the server is do

Re: [Pharo-users] Problem in installing Pharo – Solved thanks to you

2017-02-09 Thread Ben Coman
Thanks for the followup. Great to hear its working. Just a minor one thing. Can you see if your email client has a "Text Only" send feature that can apply to the mail list? Your font ends up too large & bold here (its nice to have all the mails a standard size), and some of the list archiving sof

Re: [Pharo-users] Final rush for submitting GSOC proposal - Need your help

2017-02-10 Thread Ben Coman
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Serge Stinckwich wrote: > On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 5:28 PM, Stephan Eggermont wrote: >> On 09/02/17 17:05, Serge Stinckwich wrote: >>> >>> but all the projects are coming from RMOD team, but having all the >>> projects proposal coming from the same place might be pe

Re: [Pharo-users] About asSymbol message , some questions in my mind

2017-02-11 Thread Ben Coman
Hi Bing Liang, Thanks for your comments. Fresh eyes provide interesting perspectives on things we take for granted. On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 4:41 PM, lb wrote: > Thank you, Sven > gradually clear. > 1. Symbol as String subclass, only guarantees a symbol object only one in > system, use ==; > 2.

Re: [Pharo-users] About asSymbol message , some questions in my mind

2017-02-11 Thread Ben Coman
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 12:39 AM, Ben Coman wrote: > Hi Bing Liang, > > Thanks for your comments. Fresh eyes provide interesting perspectives > on things we take for granted. > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 4:41 PM, lb wrote: >> Thank you, Sven >> gradually clear. &

Re: [Pharo-users] About asSymbol message , some questions in my mind

2017-02-12 Thread Ben Coman
r than asSymbol. If you don't get community support for this, you can start extending String like this for your own projects and later promote your concrete experience with it. cheers -ben > > Cheers Bing > > At 2017-02-12 00:39:55, "Ben Coman" wrote: >>Hi Bing

Re: [Pharo-users] Depending on MetaRepo instead of the target repo

2017-02-12 Thread Ben Coman
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Dale Henrichs < dale.henri...@gemtalksystems.com> wrote: > Peter, > > > > In the long term the the MetaRepo should be replaced by a repository of > project specification objects (like this [1]). Each project specification > would contain the meta data for a proje

Re: [Pharo-users] Depending on MetaRepo instead of the target repo

2017-02-13 Thread Ben Coman
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 7:28 PM, Peter Uhnák wrote: > > I do not think so but if people show me otherwise I could follow that. > > Well, in most languages (their package dependencies) one can just specify > name of the project and a version. The location/how to load it is pulled > from a central

[Pharo-users] [Off topic] six degrees of separation

2017-02-14 Thread Ben Coman
Idle trivia... I still like to get my daily hit of Slashdot, which linked an article by an author I like... http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/things-every-hacker-once-knew/ There I read an interesting teaser... On one widely deployed variety [of cellular modem] "AT+QLINUXCMD=" is a prefix that

Re: [Pharo-users] [Data Modeling] approaches to data persistence

2017-02-14 Thread Ben Coman
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:01 PM, sergio ruiz wrote: > Hey, all.. > > I have been working on creating a REST interface using Teapot. In > learning how to handle exceptions, I have been following along with the > library example. > > One of the things i noticed was that, in the library example, t

Re: [Pharo-users] [Data Modeling] approaches to data persistence

2017-02-14 Thread Ben Coman
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:29 AM, Ben Coman wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:01 PM, sergio ruiz > wrote: > >> Hey, all.. >> >> I have been working on creating a REST interface using Teapot. In >> learning how to handle exceptions, I have been foll

Re: [Pharo-users] Bold label

2017-02-15 Thread Ben Coman
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:00 AM, chrismihaylyk wrote: > CyrilFerlicot wrote > > Le 14/02/2017 à 21:41, chrismihaylyk a écrit : > >> Hello! > >> > >> I need to get bold text. Can you help me what class I should use and all > >> method to make text bold? > >> > > > > Hi! > > > > Here an example ope

Re: [Pharo-users] Inspecting calculated attributes

2017-02-15 Thread Ben Coman
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Alistair Grant wrote: > I'm developing a number of classes where it would be convenient to be > able to inspect what might be described as calculated attributes, i.e. > the result of a unary message send. The result isn't stored in an > instance variable, but is

Re: [Pharo-users] expanding Pharo window to left and Window positioning

2017-02-15 Thread Ben Coman
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:13 PM, Peter Uhnak wrote: > Hi, > > what rules govern window positioning? > > I have a dual monitor setup and and sometimes extend the Pharo window over > both of them; > for some reason however World submorphs (all Windows) are locked to the > left side, which is what I

Re: [Pharo-users] Inspecting calculated attributes

2017-02-15 Thread Ben Coman
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:43 PM, denker wrote: > > On 15 Feb 2017, at 11:24, denker wrote: > > > On 15 Feb 2017, at 10:56, Ben Coman wrote: > > > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Alistair Grant > wrote: > I'm developing a number of classes where

Re: [Pharo-users] Seeking support: Vote for Jigyasa Grover for Red Hat International Women in Open Source Academic Awards 2017

2017-02-18 Thread Ben Coman
On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 1:56 AM, Jigyasa Grover wrote: > Dear All > > It feels delighted to be nominated as finalist for *Red Hat International > Women in Open Source Academic Awards 2017* owing to my significant > contributions to the open source community spanning various organisations & > proj

Re: [Pharo-users] Bold label

2017-02-18 Thread Ben Coman
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 5:52 PM, Ben Coman wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 6:00 AM, chrismihaylyk > wrote: >> >> CyrilFerlicot wrote >> > Le 14/02/2017 à 21:41, chrismihaylyk a écrit : >> >> Hello! >> >> >> >> I need to

Re: [Pharo-users] Strange behavior

2017-02-19 Thread Ben Coman
You might tick Regexp and search for... now$ cheers -ben On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > Because 'now' is a case insensitive substring of each of those selectors > (like ..known.. or ..nOwner.. , both seem quite common). > >> On 19 Feb 2017, at 12:20, Mark Neagu

Re: [Pharo-users] Crash in Athens

2017-02-21 Thread Ben Coman
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Alexander Samoylovich wrote: > Hello > > I am writing graphic demo programs using Athens on Mac Sierra. > Time by time Pharo VM crashes. Programs not using Athens work reliably. > I believe the behavior is reproducible. > How should I report a bug? > > Alex The *

Re: [Pharo-users] Strange behavior

2017-02-22 Thread Ben Coman
n the world who can > memorize regular expression patterns... > > Wouldn't be easier to add a "Exact match" check box? > There are also uppercase and lowercase issues there. > > Cheers, > > Hernán > > > 2017-02-19 12:37 GMT-03:00 Ben Coman : >&g

Re: [Pharo-users] Data Encryption

2017-02-22 Thread Ben Coman
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 9:21 PM, sergio ruiz wrote: > > for whatever reason, they want something written from scratch.. in house.. are they aware of Schneier's Law... * https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/04/schneiers_law.html * https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/1999/03/cryptograph

Re: [Pharo-users] Data Encryption

2017-02-23 Thread Ben Coman
This is speculation without knowing your scope and architecture, but perhaps part of the puzzle is two factor authentication via a $20 Yubico FIDO U2F Security Key. https://www.yubico.com/store/ https://www.yubico.com/about/background/fido/ https://www.yubico.com/2016/02/use-of-fido-u2f-security-ke

Re: [Pharo-users] startUp Application

2017-02-25 Thread Ben Coman
I haven't packaged any apps myself. I just have fun hacking the Image. I know of these Squeak related ones from a while ago. YMMV but may give some ideas. http://squeakvm.org/win32/custom.html http://squeak.preeminent.org/tut2007/html/205.html cheers -ben On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 9:24 AM, Pablo

Re: [Pharo-users] How to capture the execution of a playground?

2017-02-27 Thread Ben Coman
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to store the object resulting from executing a playground. > This would imply two steps: > > - Knowing that the playground content was executed (via the play button or > its sho

Re: [Pharo-users] How to capture the execution of a playground?

2017-02-27 Thread Ben Coman
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Ben Coman wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < > offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to store the object resulting from executing a playground. >> Thi

Re: [Pharo-users] How to capture the execution of a playground?

2017-02-28 Thread Ben Coman
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote: > > On 28/02/17 02:12, Ben Coman wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < > offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote: > >>

Re: [Pharo-users] Problems with PipeableOSProcess

2017-03-01 Thread Ben Coman
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Silas Berger wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I’m currently experiencing problems with PipeableOSProcess. I’m using a command to run a third party tool, which reads a txt file and returns an XML string. In my collection, this works fine for about 75 out of 100 txt fi

Re: [Pharo-users] Arduino

2017-03-01 Thread Ben Coman
On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 5:31 AM, olivier auverlot wrote: > > Hi, > > Since some weeks, I do some experimentations with an Arduino board. I search > now to use my Arduino with Pharo. I have found some informations on the web > but nothing seems usable or up to date for the latest versions of Pharo

Re: [Pharo-users] Fwd: Welcome to GSoC 2017!

2017-03-02 Thread Ben Coman
On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Serge Stinckwich wrote: > Dear all, > > please find below more information about the GSOC 2017 program. > > Among the changes for 2017 that we should pay attention, two are quite > important: > > - Students can only be accepted into GSoC 2 times. Google Admins will

Re: [Pharo-users] why is concat of Symbols a string?

2017-03-06 Thread Ben Coman
On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 5:54 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > Here is a concrete proposal: > > https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/19802/Make-sure-Symbol- > concatenation-results-in-a-Symbol-not-a-String > > This gives the following assertions: > > "Concatenating 2 symbols results in aboth

[Pharo-users] MOOC english subtitles

2017-03-06 Thread Ben Coman
May I do a pass over the english subtitles for the MOOC? With the limited space and reading time you get with subtitles, I see some things I could fine-tune. One query on content, from [1] it says there are "good comments" when I'd guess it would say "poor comments" from there being no class comme

Re: [Pharo-users] why is concat of Symbols a string?

2017-03-06 Thread Ben Coman
On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 9:21 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > >> On 6 Mar 2017, at 14:12, Ben Coman wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 5:54 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: >> Here is a concrete proposal: >> >> https://pharo.fogbu

Re: [Pharo-users] why is concat of Symbols a string?

2017-03-06 Thread Ben Coman
x27; , #bar) = 'foobar'. > "Strings and Symbols still compare content-wise" > self assert: ('foo' , #bar) = #foobar. > "But Strings and Symbols are not identical" > self deny: ('foo' , #bar) == #foobar. >

Re: [Pharo-users] New Version of Pillar on Windows

2017-03-14 Thread Ben Coman
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 6:49 AM, wrote: > > > You all have created a great learning environment and resources, not to > mention evolving the most pleasant rendition of the SmallTalk environment > I’ve ever seen. Thank you. > Thanks Mike. Its good to get feedback nice on first impressions. > >

Re: [Pharo-users] Specifying library dependencies in UFFI

2017-03-14 Thread Ben Coman
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 11:23 PM, Raffaello Giulietti < raffaello.giulie...@lifeware.ch> wrote: > Hi, > > say I want to directly use a library that depends on other libraries in > different folders. How does UFFI proceed to find these other libraries? > > Is there a way to specify the search folde

Re: [Pharo-users] Specifying library dependencies in UFFI

2017-03-15 Thread Ben Coman
com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms682586(v=vs.85).aspx cheers -ben > But I'll try whether SetDllDirectory also affects load-time searches. > > Anyway, I hope future versions of the UFFI to offer setting the search > paths more easily. > > > > Greetings >

Re: [Pharo-users] [ANN] Image saver with time tag

2017-03-18 Thread Ben Coman
Nice feature. I'd actually consider "Save As..." defaulting to the time tag. Any objections? How often do people use "Save As..." and for what purpose besides safety-backup? cheers -ben On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:36 AM, p...@highoctane.be wrote: > I like to save images with a time tag and got

Re: [Pharo-users] looking for tools to manually select ast nodes for metalinks

2017-03-19 Thread Ben Coman
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 4:06 AM, Steven Costiou wrote: > Hi, > > i would like a way to define metalinks at debug time, by "visually" > selecting ast nodes in the debugger. For example i would like to see a > method that i am debugging and by a clic on the source code it would select > the associat

Re: [Pharo-users] Magritte extension

2017-03-21 Thread Ben Coman
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 4:35 AM, DiegoLont wrote: > It has been a while that I was really involved in developing on (QC)Magritte > and doing stuff on the web ... btw, what does the "QC" represent? cheers -ben

Re: [Pharo-users] Magritte extension

2017-03-22 Thread Ben Coman
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 5:25 AM, Diego Lont wrote: > >> First of all I want to advertise QCMagritte: This framework is easy to use. >> It has a seaside like tutorial, that every developer should be able to >> follow without any significant problems and shows all significant features >> of both Mag

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk on Stack Overflow Developers Survey 2017

2017-03-25 Thread Ben Coman
>From 2016... "loved" means people using the language want to keep using it. https://techbeacon.com/highlights-stack-overflow-2016-developer-survey So probably more like, 2 out of 3 people using Smalltalk this year would like to / expect to be using it next year, which seems more realistic. Notice

Re: [Pharo-users] Build instructions for building threaded 6.0 VM on linux

2017-03-25 Thread Ben Coman
On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 1:13 AM, Alistair Grant wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Would someone please point me to instructions on how to build the 6.0 > threaded VM for linux (Ubuntu). Looking here... https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/tree/Cog/build.linux32x86/pharo.cog.spur its not the

Re: [Pharo-users] Build instructions for building threaded 6.0 VM on linux

2017-03-26 Thread Ben Coman
On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Alistair Grant wrote: > On 26 March 2017 at 04:09, Pierce Ng wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 07:29:29PM +0100, Alistair Grant wrote: >>> make[3]: *** No rule to make target >>> '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libssl.so', needed by 'libgit2.so.0.23.0'. >> >> Sorry, also

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk on Stack Overflow Developers Survey 2017

2017-03-26 Thread Ben Coman
On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 11:43 PM, Stephan Eggermont wrote: > On 26/03/17 04:16, Pierce Ng wrote: >> >> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 07:56:03PM +0100, Stephan Eggermont wrote: >>> >>> On 25/03/17 18:29, serge.stinckw...@gmail.com wrote: Nice ! But do you have a way to automatize this process ?

Re: [Pharo-users] Build instructions for building threaded 6.0 VM on linux

2017-03-26 Thread Ben Coman
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 5:25 AM, Alistair Grant wrote: > Trying to use the VM produces: > > THERE_BE_DRAGONS_HERE > Your VM is too old for this image. Please download the latest VM. > 26 March 2017 10:54:36.099174 pm Last night I built the 64-bit pharo-vm on OSX and then trying to run 60451-64.im

Re: [Pharo-users] diff'ing with metacello

2017-03-28 Thread Ben Coman
Do you mean the difference between two "ConfigurationXXXmcz" files? As a workaround, perhaps load one and then from Monticello, "start" to merge the other from Monticello and you will see a diff between them. cheers -ben On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Siemen Baader wrote: > Hi all, > > is

Re: [Pharo-users] diff'ing with metacello

2017-03-28 Thread Ben Coman
Can you provide a concrete case of two versions you want to compare? cheers -ben On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Siemen Baader wrote: > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 28/03/2017, at 13.52, Ben Coman wrote: > >> Do you mean the difference between two "Configur

Re: [Pharo-users] Build instructions for building threaded 6.0 VM on linux

2017-03-29 Thread Ben Coman
:P > > Esteban > > >> On 29 Mar 2017, at 15:02, Alistair Grant wrote: >> >> Hi Ben, >> >> On 27 March 2017 at 01:37, Ben Coman wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 5:25 AM, Alistair Grant >>> wrote: >>>> Trying to use t

Re: [Pharo-users] diff'ing with metacello

2017-03-30 Thread Ben Coman
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 2:58 PM, Siemen Baader wrote: > Below is a fileout of 'ConfigurationOfPharoJS'. I download new releases of > PharoJS as they become available. Recently I found a regression - a method > 'PjApplication class >> playgroundWithoutLaunch' did not work any more. What > I wante

Re: [Pharo-users] type checking in Smalltalk

2017-03-30 Thread Ben Coman
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Stephan Eggermont wrote: > On 30/03/17 16:03, Marc Hanisch via Pharo-users wrote: >> >> Reading this, I realized, that I never saw such type-checking in >> Pharo production code. So the question is, what are recommended >> design principles for that problem in Sma

Re: [Pharo-users] type checking in Smalltalk

2017-03-31 Thread Ben Coman
On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 2:34 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > > > On 31 Mar 2017, at 19:38, Dimitris Chloupis > wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 at 19:13, Sven Van Caekenberghe > wrote: > > if you copy/paste something you should give a reference > > > > > > I did not copy paste anything,

Re: [Pharo-users] Breaking News

2017-04-01 Thread Ben Coman
On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 12:10 AM, horrido wrote: > Smalltalk to get a second crack at the whip > second-crack-at-the-whip-ecaeb8a94533> > . By frickin' time! > > Lovely article Richard. I want to believe this is really a turning point for Smal

Re: [Pharo-users] Breaking News

2017-04-01 Thread Ben Coman
Too quick Offray :) Shoulda let it run... cheers -ben On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote: > Ohhh... April 1st (the local date for that is Dec 28th, so it always > kind of confuse me). > > Cheers, > > Offray > > > > On 01/04/17 12:22,

Re: [Pharo-users] Breaking News

2017-04-02 Thread Ben Coman
day also (until I searched and the other half of my brain caught up). cheers -ben > Cheers, >> >> Offray >> >> On 01/04/17 12:32, Ben Coman wrote: >> >> Too quick Offray :) Shoulda let it run... >> cheers -ben >> >> On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Off

Re: [Pharo-users] GSoC Proposal - Improve Code Completion

2017-04-02 Thread Ben Coman
On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 7:24 PM, Stephane Ducasse wrote: > Super. > Did you read the previous discussions and suggestions in the past in this > mailing-list? > You can search here & sort by date... http://forum.world.st/Pharo-f1294836.html cheers -ben > > > On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Nahu

Re: [Pharo-users] GSoC Proposals as result of the 8th local Data Week

2017-04-02 Thread Ben Coman
On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 11:33 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > On 02/04/17 09:48, Serge Stinckwich wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> We made another data week (the 8th one), this tim

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo image freeze and "Alt-." has no effect

2017-04-07 Thread Ben Coman
Just for starters, can you try with dev-latest VM & Image... * http://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo-spur32/linux/pharo-linux-i386threaded- 201704041239-b3f27b3.zip * http://files.pharo.org/image/60/60463.zip cheers -ben On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Steven Rémot wrote: > I'm on Linux (Ubuntu 15.10

Re: [Pharo-users] Neural Networks in Pharo

2017-04-12 Thread Ben Coman
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 8:27 AM, Oleksandr Zaytsev wrote: > Hello! > > Several weeks ago I've announced my NeuralNetworks project. Thank you very > much for your ideas and feedback. As suggested, I wrote examples for every > class and tested my perceptron on linearly-separable logical functions. >

Re: [Pharo-users] Export MongoDB to sql format

2017-04-14 Thread Ben Coman
On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: > > > On 13 April 2017 at 22:23, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: > >> >> On 13 Apr 2017, at 19:26, Asbath Sama biyalou via Pharo-users < >> pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> wrote: >> >> >> *From: *Asbath Sama biyalou >> *Subject: **Export MongoDB to sq

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 6 snap install

2017-04-16 Thread Ben Coman
On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Luke Gorrie wrote: > > On 14 April 2017 at 22:20, Stephane Ducasse wrote: >> >> This is what we always have when we release and we freeze it. >> The vm 60 will be compatible with latest pharo 60 image. > > > It is possible that I have misunderstood the whole situ

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 6 snap install

2017-04-16 Thread Ben Coman
Whoops, now copied to pharo-dev to continue discussion there. On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 9:13 PM, Ben Coman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 12:43 PM, Luke Gorrie wrote: >> >> On 14 April 2017 at 22:20, Stephane Ducasse wrote: >>> >>> This is what we always have

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo6 server deployment and no home directory

2017-04-16 Thread Ben Coman
On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Holger Freyther wrote: > >> On 15. Apr 2017, at 07:59, Holger Freyther wrote: >> >> >> * Why isn't the migration from Ston to Fuel more explicit? >> * Why is "load" trying to save? >> * Why is "ensure:" used instead of load? >> * Not sure why "self preferences exi

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 6 snap install

2017-04-16 Thread Ben Coman
On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 8:53 PM, Luke Gorrie wrote: > On 15 April 2017 at 14:45, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: >> >> this belongs to pharo-dev, please continue there :) > > > Looks to me like I should make a small replacement for mvm that is for nix. > > Nix indeed does its own thing. > > The downside

Re: [Pharo-users] Convert Literal array into Dynamic array

2017-04-17 Thread Ben Coman
On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 1:30 AM, Христина Михайлюк wrote: > > > Actually, I need this interpretation {7. 8. "f"} for writing parser of > javascript queries which is used in MongoDB shell, to be able to execute > this with MongoQuery Pharo class. > Maybe, you could help me how to implement it? >

Re: [Pharo-users] example in FFI manual not worked

2017-04-19 Thread Ben Coman
Hi Yuriy, Hope I can help. I tried your example in build 60463 and its works fine. So lets break it down. On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 8:46 PM, Yuriy Babah wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm new to Pharo and have tried do example with structure in Unified FFI > manual. > > FFIExternalStructure subcla

Re: [Pharo-users] example in FFI manual not worked

2017-04-20 Thread Ben Coman
=0B_0p5J9SNPlBOHduQlIxdHI0bk0 > > But sometimes I'm moved forvard to operations: > > MyStructure rebuildFieldAccessors. -> DoIt -> Ok > > myStruct := MyStructure externalNew. -> DoIt -> Ok > > myStruct := id: 42. -> MessageDoesUnderstood. > > I'

[Pharo-users] MOOC offline download

2017-04-27 Thread Ben Coman
I was just chatting with someone with limited Internet who was looking to odownload the mooc files [1] for use offline. Does such exist? [1] http://files.pharo.org/mooc cheers -ben

Re: [Pharo-users] Spec Adapter Advice

2017-04-27 Thread Ben Coman
Hi Dennis, On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 7:09 AM, Rob Rothwell wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Thank you very much for that overview! > > It looks like even just creating a window with no other widgets is sort of > "hard-wired" to Morphic through ComposableModel>>defaultWindowModelClass, > so maybe just overri

Re: [Pharo-users] MOOC offline download

2017-04-28 Thread Ben Coman
l the files to be uploaded). > > Stef > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Ben Coman wrote: > >> I was just chatting with someone with limited Internet who was looking to >> odownload the mooc files [1] for use offline. Does such exist? >> >> [1] http://files.pharo.org/mooc >> >> cheers -ben >> > >

Re: [Pharo-users] Spec Adapter Advice

2017-04-28 Thread Ben Coman
On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 4:20 AM, Rob Rothwell wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Thanks again for the advice. I've reduced my number of infinite loops and > crashes by creating copies of pertinent classes and using them for testing, > but I have quickly learned to save my image after inserting a halt anywher

Re: [Pharo-users] Dark theme and white vs. green color

2017-04-28 Thread Ben Coman
On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 5:02 AM, john pfersich wrote: > I agree, that dark theme is harder to read than green on black. I just > want the old light theme, how do I get it? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Apr 28, 2017, at 09:42, Juraj Kubelka > wrote: > > > > it: > Go to System > Settings and s

Re: [Pharo-users] Process scheduling

2017-04-30 Thread Ben Coman
On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 10:11 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I can't find a description on how ProcessorScheduler in Pharo (i.e., > Cog) is supposed to do context switches in absence of other > synchronization points. > > Is it following the BlueBook spec? Just to recall that model, the VM, > when about to

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 6 / VM crashes

2017-04-30 Thread Ben Coman
On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 8:00 PM, Clément Bera wrote: > Hi, > > About the best way to help... > > A reproducible case that we (VM developers) can reproduce easily is the > best way to help. If we do not have a way to reproduce your bug, we cannot > do anything about it. The best is an image which

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