Beginners August 2007

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Is there a tandard way to attach context menus
by Herbert König 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

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: and #hasYellowButtonMenu don't help. So is there a predefined way without everybody doing his own? Thanks, Herbert mailto:herbertkoenig@gmx.net

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One click setup for 3.9 [win]
by Xinyu Liu 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Hi people, I create a one click setup for newbies. It will do the following things after run: 1. download SqueakVM from ftp.squeak.org 2. download 3.9 images, soruces ftp.squeak.org 3. extract all things 4. create shortcut in desktop and program menu. I found the download process may cost some time, because there is only one download session. The installer can work only in Windows. It can be get from: http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeak3.9_win_installer.exe I created it with NullSoft installation system scripts. I shared the script code here: http://liuxinyu95.googlepages.com/squeak3.9_win_install.nsi You can change it when 3.9 package updates. Have fun with 3.9! Best regards. Yours, Liu

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Added Instance Variables and Methods are not shown in System Browser
by Warakorn Paphrawat 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

I developed a little Meta-Programming application, which adds methods to the MethodDictionary of a class and adds instance variables + getters/setters. However, after running this application the changes are not reflected in the System Browser. All new instance variables and new methods are not shown there. On the other side I can run a little test application, which creates a new instance of class (to which I added some methods and variables), which in turn uses some of the added methods and instance variables through getters/setters without any errors. Is there any trick to make these added methods and instance variables visible ? Again, the new methods are correctly integrated into the MethodDictionary with selectors and CompiledMethods according to "aClass inspect". Is there another way to check whether the new methods and new instance are really integrated into a new class? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Omnibrowser?
by Blake 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

So...where is Omnibrowser? I have vanilla Squeak 3.9 and a bunch of Squeak-devs that say it's installed. How do I open one? It's not the default, is it? And how do I make traits visible? Thanks!

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[OT] looking for Beta Testers for a Second Life related tool written in Squeak
by Michael Rueger 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

Hi all, this is probably more than slightly off topic, but we (Impara) are looking for beta testers for a Plopp based sculpture modeling tool for SecondLife. Assuming that there are people actively using SecondLife :-) Can't really imagine ;-), but for those who don't know yet, Plopp is a 3D painting tool for kids, based on the Teddy algorithm and written in Squeak (http://planet-plopp.com). People interested in testing the tool and especially giving feedback on the exported results on Mac, Windows or Linux would need a SecondLife account and the ability to upload objects. Please reply to me off-list if you are interested. Thanks and apologies for this off-topic, shameless self promotion :-) Michael

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Installing .mcz files
by andy.burnett＠knowinnovation.com 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

Hello I downloaded the new UI files - which all look very exciting - but now I am a bit stuck. How does one load them? The web site mentioned package universe as an option. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks AB

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Re: [Newbies] How can I get a morphic-less squeak on Unix ?
by "S.J.Chun" 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

I have my own MVC only image. If you need it Ican send it to you. My image is based on 3.8.1 and with other "random" patches and improvements. Reply me if you want this. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ravi Mohan <magesmail(a)yahoo.com> To: beginners(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org Sent: 07-08-30 16:56:39 Subject: Re: [Newbies] How can I get a morphic-less squeak on Unix ? Hi, Is there any way I can get a morphicless(or close to it) Squeak on Unix without porting the VM myself? I can't find any documentation or *comprehensive* tutorials for Morphic and all the smalltalk books I have deal with MVC. So couldn't I just open an MVC project and work there? I tried. There's a bug that causes squeak to freeze in an MNC project (see http://bugs.squeak.org/print_bug_page.php?bug_id=5320 -apparently logged some time ago and there doesn't seem to be a fix). If I could find a squeak version (an old one would be fine) that ran MVC perfectly, that would be awesome. I tried getting one form teh squeak site but the older ones are all windows excutables. Any help would be tremendously appreciated. Thanks in advance, Ravi PS: I really don't want to use Mrphic. It feels very incomplete to me and is not well documented. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

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Re: [Newbies] How can I get a morphic-less squeak on Unix ?
by "S.J.Chun" 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

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How can I get a morphic-less squeak on Unix ?
by Ravi Mohan 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Hi, Is there any way I can get a morphicless(or close to it) Squeak on Unix without porting the VM myself? I can't find any documentation or *comprehensive* tutorials for Morphic and all the smalltalk books I have deal with MVC. So couldn't I just open an MVC project and work there? I tried. There's a bug that causes squeak to freeze in an MNC project (see http://bugs.squeak.org/print_bug_page.php?bug_id=5320 -apparently logged some time ago and there doesn't seem to be a fix). If I could find a squeak version (an old one would be fine) that ran MVC perfectly, that would be awesome. I tried getting one form teh squeak site but the older ones are all windows excutables. Any help would be tremendously appreciated. Thanks in advance, Ravi PS: I really don't want to use Mrphic. It feels very incomplete to me and is not well documented. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting

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Scratch questions
by Alex Rice 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Hi All, i am pretty new around here. Glad to see Squeak is so active still. I have been looking at new Squeak apps like Sophie and Scratch. pretty cool! makes me want to learn Smalltalk. Out of curiosity I have read some of the FAQs about how to deploy a Squeak application. i understand about image files, the VM, and the basics. I was wondering about Scratch in particular. It seems really nicely done. i am impressed because it's so nice looking and it launches really fast too. 1) How do they get it to launch so fast? It launches in <1 second on my system. In comparison, Squeak 3.9 takes like 15 seconds to launch. Sophie takes about 6 seconds. Why the disparity between these 3 examples? 2) The Scratch user interface is attractive and responsive. Is that Morphic, or MVC or some other UI toolkit? Thanks, Alex Rice

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