Squeak-dev April 1999

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Re: [Q] Sound on Linux 2.0.30 + libc5
by akubi 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

Hello, all Ninja <chunsj(a)mailx.dacom.co.kr> wrote (Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 15:23:48 +0900) wrote: >That's replated with my window manager or other things. After change >my configuration of Squeak in WindowMaker then I can hear SOUND!!!! I'm a Linux/PPC user, and I want to know HOW you change the configuration of Squeak in WindowMaker ! Please tell me if you remember. Best regards, -- akubi<a98s111(a)ex.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> Kasuya SAKURADA

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Re: Alix.inria.fr down?
by Peter William Lount 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

Hi, http://www.smalltalk.org/versions/SqueakSmalltalk.html is avaliable for being a mirror as well. Where are the latest binaries and sources located for all the versions? It's not so clear where to find them all... All the best, Peter William Lount peter(a)smalltalk.org http://www.smalltalk.org ---------- From: Peter Crowther <peter.crowther(a)it-iq.com> To: squeak(a)cs.uiuc.edu Subject: RE: Alix.inria.fr down? Date: April 30, 1999 5:36 AM > I'm currently trying to set up an alternate server on the outside of > the firewall (and at the same time register a DNS alias for it called > "squeak.inria.fr" :^), but there may well be a period in the next few > weeks during which no FTP access whatsoever to Squeak stuff at INRIA > is possible. Ian --- I still have wyrm at U of M with a couple of hundred Mbytes of free space and a backbone link if you need a FTP server in a hurry on this side of the Atlantic. - Peter

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[BUG][FIX] Can't rename classes in 2.4b
by Mark Guzdial 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

If you try to rename classes that don't have class comments from the browser in 2.4b, you get bitten by the nil size bug. The below code fixes it. 'From Squeak 2.4b of April 23, 1999 on 30 April 1999 at 11:21:25 am'! !ClassOrganizer methodsFor: 'accessing' stamp: 'mjg 4/30/1999 11:20'! classComment: aString "Store the comment, aString, associated with the object that refers to the receiver." | commentString | commentString _ aString. (aString isNil) ifTrue: [commentString _ '']. (commentString isKindOf: RemoteString) ifTrue: [globalComment _ commentString] ifFalse: [commentString size = 0 ifTrue: [globalComment _ nil] ifFalse: [ self error: 'use aClass classComment:'. globalComment _ RemoteString newString: commentString onFileNumber: 2]] "Later add priorSource and date and initials?"! ! -------------------------- Mark Guzdial : Georgia Tech : College of Computing : Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 (404) 894-5618 : Fax (404) 894-0673 : guzdial(a)cc.gatech.edu http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html

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Re: [?] How can I test for my platform in Squeak?
by Lex Spoon 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

A nicer way is to ask for the service you are interested in, and if it fails, then you're on the wrong platform. The nice thing about doing it this way, is that the item you think is platform specific today, might be ported somewhere else tomorrow. Lex "Norton, Chris" <chrisn(a)Kronos.com> wrote: > Hi Folks. > > I must have my stupid hat on today... > > Can anybody tell me how I can determine what platform I'm running from > within Squeak? > > My goal, obviously, is to muck around with some platform dependant stuff > (i.e. I thought I'd try something that is Windows specific) and I'd like to > ensure that my code won't blow up on one of the myriad other Squeak boxes > that are out there. > > Thanks! > > ---==> Chris

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Re: [ENH] blurred LCD
by Lex Spoon 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

This is for MVC, right? Very clever putting the delay inside Sensor instead of just in the Controllers! Of course, in Morphic holding the mouse up or down doesn't effect the CPU usage, anyway. (well, except in the one case of "fastDragWindows"....). Lex "Reinier van Loon" <R.L.J.M.W.van.Loon(a)inter.nl.net> wrote: > Folks, maybe the following change set is interesting: > http://www.2share.com/squeak/Sisi.30Apr616pm.cs > > Description: > > Sisi lets Squeak take it easy when a mouse button is down, i.e. Squeak does > not consume 100% CPU when a mouse button is down in a paragraph, a pop up > menu or a scroll bar. > > Funny enough, CPU consumption was not the main reason why I did this change > set. No, I did it because the characters on my 15 inch LCD blurred when a > mouse button was down!!!!!! > > It also sets the standard minimal activity lapse to 100, which works nicer > for a Pentium II at 450 MHz with Windows NT 4.0. > > Regards, Reinier

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Re: 2.4b FileDirectory>>fileExists:
by Lex Spoon 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

If you mount a regular DOS partition on Linux, without long file names, then files on the DOS partition are case insensitive. I just tried "cat Autoexec.bat" and "cat autoexec.bat" and they both did the same thing. The non-DOS partitions are still case sensitive as is usual for *nix. Granted it's an unusual case, but it suggests at the least that isCaseSensitive should be specific to FileDirectory instances, and not the entire *FileDirectory class. Or maybe there shouldjust be a fileExists: primitive made and the issue deferred to the OS. Lex Stephen Travis Pope <stp(a)create.ucsb.edu> wrote: > > Lex Spoon wrote: > > > > Unix uses case-sensitive filenames. It's one of those religious debates as to which way is "better". But there are ways to make Squeak work the right way on each operating system. The best, IMHO, is to have a "file exists" primitive. > > I'd prefer a method that returns whether or not the current platform is > case-sensitive; how about the following: > > !FileDirectory class methodsFor: 'platform specific'! > isCaseSensitive > "Answer whether the current platfor is case-sensitive about file > names." > > ^DirectoryClass isCaseSensitive! ! > > The directory classes (Mac/Dos/UNIX) can then answer differently, and > application code can call this to be "smart" about handling file name > clashes or file-not-found errors. > > -- > stp > > Stephen Travis Pope | stp(a)create.ucsb.edu | > http://www.create.ucsb.edu/~stp

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Re: Alix.inria.fr down?
by Ian Piumarta 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

> Is the UNIX Squeak distribution site (alix.inria.fr) down? I've been > trying to get on for several days without success. I'm afraid so. She (an SS1+) died of old age. I've enabled global FTP access to xombul.inria.fr (the machine that actually hosts the FTP partition), so you could try there instead. But this is going to be a short-lived luxury since the "powers that be" are enabling a firewall shortly (a matter of days). Not that we've been attacked: they just thought it would be good for INRIA's "image". :-( I'm currently trying to set up an alternate server on the outside of the firewall (and at the same time register a DNS alias for it called "squeak.inria.fr" :^), but there may well be a period in the next few weeks during which no FTP access whatsoever to Squeak stuff at INRIA is possible. Ian

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Re: Alix.inria.fr down?
by Kevin Fisher 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

It seems to work for me now as well. Thanks very much! On 30-Apr-99 Ian Piumarta wrote: >> Ok, I got in this time! But 'ls /' gives me an empty listing... > > It's working for me now. (Mount point was bad.) > > Ian

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Re: Alix.inria.fr down?
by Ian Piumarta 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

> Xombul doesn't seem to work either (the new firewall is up?). Try again. (inetd.conf pointed to a non-existent ftp daemon ;) Ian

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Re: Your data is served...
by John-Reed Maffeo 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

stp, Thank you. I hope I get a chance to try this out this weekend. I have some data that I would like to objectify and store outside the image. If you have any suggestions for an approach to this please let me know. I haven't looked at MinneStore for awhile and I don't know how to use it, but that hasn't stopped me yet. The data that I am working with are sets of points which identify the geographic boundaries of the individual states of the USA. I am porting and modifying an application that I found on the archive. I hope to expand it to include much more data about each state and turn it into a useful teaching tool. If you have any specific tasks that a newbie could perform to help with the MinneStore project let me know and I will try to do it. I am eager to pay back the tremendous debt that I have incurred to the whole Squeak community. Thanks, John-Reed Maffeo Mesa, AZ

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