Squeak-dev August 2001

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Re: [OT] How We Discuss Things
by Richard A. O'Keefe 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Dan Shafer <dshafer(a)yahoo.com> wrote: It seems to me that if we moved from the older mailing list model to a true discussion board or Swiki model for all of our discussions, we'd all be enriched and our experience would be both more effective and more efficient. AARGH! No! Please! Not another thing where I have to click all over the place. The day I have to use a browser to read Squeak news is the day I unsubscribe. But I never hear anyone suggest this, which indicates perhaps I am alone in my feeling that this is such an archaic and relatively inefficient way of dealing with such material. I think the mailing list is a very _efficient_ way to process this material. It's an order of magnitude more pleasant than using a browser.

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Squeakland press
by Alexander Lazarevic 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Squeak and squeakland got mentioned in the recent issue (16/2001 p.64) of the well-known german computer magazine CT. In the category Web-tips under the headline "Multimedia easy to use" the author mentions some of squeaks capabilities (games, music, 3D, animation, various aspects of science) and the possibility to send projects directly via the internet to another user. The article implies that squeak still belongs to Disney and that Disney uses squeak for animation. It would be interesting to see if the weblog of the squeakland webserver shows an increase of german visitors for this weekend. :) Alex PS: Squeakland also got mentioned by CT in June (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/em-16.06.01-005/)

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SML Parser
by Francisco Garau 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Hi, Here is what I done in the ICFP programming contest. It is a parser to an HTML like language (see http://cristal.inria.fr/ICFP2001/prog-contest/ for a detailed description). Did any other participated? It was really fun -- Francisco Garau

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[ENH] MorphicWrappers Update
by Francisco Garau 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Hi, I made several extensions to the MorphicWrappers package: - Improved drag-and-drop support (from Browser, Debugger, ChangeSorter, etc) - ObjectExplorer integration (you can now type in the air to an ObjectExplorer item) - Methods can be shown inside SystemWindows (this is selectable with a Preference). I will upload two files to the MW site (http://mathmorphs.swiki.net): - MW31a-4173.zip (the core MW package) - MW31a-4173-Extensions.zip (my extensions) I hope you like them and they get merged in the main MW distribution. What I want to do next is change the ClassMorphicWrapper to something similar to what is shown in the attached image. I would like to shown the class inside a hierarchical list with the following items - SomeClass - class definition - instance methods - class methods Each of this items could be expanded as required, and you (for instance) could get: - SomeClass - class definition - superclass - instance variables - inst var 1 - inst var n - class variables - pool dictionaries - clas category - comment - subclasses - instance methods - accessing - method 1 - versions - last version - first version - changeSets - method n - printing - printOn: - class methods - category 1 - method 1 I think that this could replace all the standards tools (except a few, like Debuggers) Regards, Francisco Garau

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Mouse cursor disappearing?
by Vince Mazo 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Hello, I' ve already posted a message about this problem, but I got no answers. Maybe I'll get luckier this time... When I drop one of my Morphs on another one,I open a FillInTheBlank but unfortunately my mouse cursor disappears.How can I correct that and make it remain visible? Thanks in advance... Vince

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Re: Book Morph Won't Resize
by Bob Arning 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

On Wed, 01 Aug 2001 10:39:55 -0400 Roger Kenyon <edutec(a)idirect.com> wrote: >I seem to have lost the ability to resize a book morph, whether one that I >create or one created in another project. The same thing happens with a >clean copy of Squeak. The yellow halo moves, but snaps back as the morph >does not resize. Roger, The key is to resize the page rather than the book. The book may once have let you do what you want, but now it shrinks to the minimum need to enclose the page and controls. When you click to get the halos, keep clicking until the label at the bottom says "page" rather than "Book". Cheers, Bob

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LG tutorial & difference between 2.x & 3.x
by Timothy Reaves 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Hello all. I was attempting to go through the tutorial over at JG. However, it breaks down rather quickly: World addMorph: (PolygonMorph vertices: {50@50.200@200} color: Color red borderWidth: 20 borderColor: Color red) The only problem is, in the process a Rectangle gets instanciated, and Rectangle doesn't have a corner mutator, only an accessor. So it breaks. Where would I find the difference between the 2.x & 3.x series images? I assume that somewhere is a document explaining the differences, and that it would have listed that the corner mutator was removed, and possibly offer an alternative. Am I missing something?

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Squeak instead of Servlets
by Gary McGovern 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Hello, I'm enquiring as to whether anyone has done any work running Squeak rather than a servlet (or even JSPs) on a servlet engine with Apache and DB or if not, can anyone give me some relevant info such as different methods to achieve the same end. There's a few things I'd like to do in that vein and servlets is the only way I know how (not knowing perl or php) but I'd be more interested in using Squeak if possible. I should also mention that I'll be using a free host with apache. Thanks! Gary

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