Squeak-dev April 2002

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Re: [ENH] CloseBoxInMenu-nk
by goran.hultgren＠bluefish.se 02 Apr '02

02 Apr '02

"Ned Konz" <ned(a)bike-nomad.com> wrote: > Everyone else has done look tweaks; this > is my first one. > > This changes the stay-up look of titled MenuMorphs to more closely match > the style of the SystemWindows. Morphic only. Nice. Perhaps it could be a tad smaller? It looks a bit oversized compared to the 'X'. Btw, is this a reaction to someone else thinking that "dismiss this menu" etc was silly? Just curious, it seemed so well "timed"... :-) regards, Göran

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RE: No Background?
by Jon Hylands 02 Apr '02

02 Apr '02

At Monday, 1 April 2002, you wrote: >Thank you. That gets me a step closer, now, the question still stands if I >can make the world background transparent? I want to be able to see and/or >interact with things 'behind' the squeak environment, to turn off the >background and ScreenController, and just have what I want out there. Is >that possible with squeak as it stands now? Malachi, I'm pretty certain someone posted a change set back in late 2000/early 2001 that did just that -- it turned the background transparent, so Squeak windows (morphs) show up looking like they are OS windows. They don't show up in the task list of course, but you can see and manipulate stuff behind the windows... Later, Jon -------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Hylands Jon(a)huv.com http://www.huv.com/jon Project: Micro Seeker (Micro Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) http://www.huv.com

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[ANN][Goodie] SoapOpera0.5 beta2
by Masashi Umezawa 02 Apr '02

02 Apr '02

Hi, SoapOpera 0.5 beta2 has been just released. Please check it out. http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~umejava/smalltalk/soapOpera/index.html SOAP Encoding Array (of primitive types) are now supported, which enables array objects pass between Squeak and Ruby. http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~umejava/smalltalk/soapOpera/rubyClients.zip 0.5beta2 also includes new encoding scheme, SRP encoding. Because SRP is a generic object serialization protocol, if other SOAP implementation supports SRP, it would be possible to pass arbitrary complex objects! --- [:masashi | ^umezawa]

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Re: [T-SHIRT] was: [FIX][OSProcess][Unix][VMMaker] OSProcessFix-sr v2.0
by goran.hultgren＠bluefish.se 02 Apr '02

02 Apr '02

Bert Freudenberg <bert(a)isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de> wrote: [SNIP] > Got it! It's incredibly ... green (see attached image). Thanks!!! Wow, that looks cool! Needless to say, I want one too! :-) It so... sortof "right" for Squeakers. regards, Göran

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[ENH] BlockContext>>doOnlyOnce (Version 3: major bug fixed)
by Torge Husfeldt 02 Apr '02

02 Apr '02

Hi List, Doug just pointed out a major bug in my implementation of #doOnlyOnce. In fact the version i posted was a really complicated version of #value. Here comes the bug fix with the proper (i hope) subject line and some example code. I changed the logic for logging the oneShots that are already fired from BlockContext instances to MethodContexts (their homeContext). This means (1) that every method can have only one oneShot (2) every oneShot gets rearmed automatically on recompile. Make sure to clean out the OneShotsFired dictionary by calling BlockContext rearmAllOneShots if you use this faeture heavily. Squeak on, Torge

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Dr. Dobb's
by David T. Lewis 02 Apr '02

02 Apr '02

Congratulations to Dan Ingalls and Adele Goldberg, who appear on the cover of the May 2002 "Dr. Dobb's Journal" as recipients of the 2002 Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award.

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Annoyance: Hierarchical Browser
by Ross Boylan 02 Apr '02

02 Apr '02

Most of the time when I open a hierarchical class browser the focal class is invisible, since it is below the very tiny scroll area that is shown. This seems a bit odd, since that class is highlighted (when scrolled into view, and it is controlling what you see in the other windows anyway). I see this both on MS Windows and Linux, though I wonder if it's a font thing and it looks OK on, e.g., a Mac.

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Why can't I do (aNonSmallInteger becomeFoward: aSmallInteger)?
by Brian Keefer 02 Apr '02

02 Apr '02

I'm guessing the reason is more involved than "because nobody asked", but such a capability would be nice for my dinky little LazyObject class. I suppose a reasonable workaround would be to force my SmallInteger into a Large(Positive|Negative)Integer, or make a wrapper for the SmallInteger. "All I need to know about Smalltalk I learned from Sesame Street" magicianMumford become: PeanutButterSandwich new.

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[ANN] SqM with 'double clickable FreeCell'
by PhiHo Hoang 02 Apr '02

02 Apr '02

Dear Squeaker, Please share with me the joy of a 'double clickable FreeCell'. It is appropriate to take this opportunity to express my thanks to Dan who silently extends his hands behind the scene, emailing me the change set to implement a backend to the Squeak compiler to generate C++ code. This backend was used to generate the Squeak compiler itself into C++. So, now SqM have a Squeak CompilerPlugin, which is now residing in SqMOM together with the ObjectMemoryPlugin, InterpreterPlugin and PrimitivesPlugin. Actually, SqM will have more than one CompilerPlugin. Dave was kind enough to send me a port of GNU Smalltalk (gst) compiler. Dave, on behalf of Squeak lovers, I like to express our thanks for your care about Squeak's future. This port still needs some more tuning to match Squeak ObjectMemory. However, it has its strength as being written in C from scratch and designed to exist before there is an image. Time will tell which one has an upper hand. It's still to early to make a choice now. SqM will provide both compilers when they are both available. Please find attached the file 'SqMwithDoubleClickableFreeCell.zip'. The archive when unzipped will create a directory 'SqM' C:\SqM\Release>ls -lR SqM SqM: total 19 -rw-r--r-- 1 PhiHo Ho None 1863 Mar 31 21:58 ReadMe.SqM -rwxr-xr-x 1 PhiHo Ho None 15872 Apr 1 00:59 SqM.exe drwxr-xr-x 2 PhiHo Ho None 0 Mar 31 20:17 SqMod -rw-r--r-- 1 PhiHo Ho None 109 Mar 31 19:21 install.ini SqM/SqMod: total 11 -rw-r--r-- 1 PhiHo Ho None 10604 Mar 30 20:13 FreeCell.st Please read 'ReadMe.SqM' Lastly, I would like to express my sincere thanks to all who gave me encouragements in their own way so that I do not get discouraged and give up this pet project. Your feedback and bug reports are more than welcome. SqM should be crossplatform, i.e. it should run on: Win95, Win98, WinNT, WinME, Win2K, WinXP ;-) No WInCE :-( Seriously, it is sincerely hoped that one day SqM with double clickable FreeCell will run on at least Mac, Linux, WinCE and of course Acorn :-) Enjoy, PhiHo.

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Squeak shrink...
by Mayuresh Kathe 02 Apr '02

02 Apr '02

Hi all, I wanted to know the following: 1. How do I remove all traces of Morphic (I tried working using the code from MajorShrink, but it still leaves some traces) 2. How do I remove all traces of Balloon (same probs as above) 3. How do I change the menus so that they don't have items which try and access the old stuff 4. How do I get a clean system which doesn't have a lot of rif-raf? (in short, look like Twiggy, nut not feel the same ;) Also, I think, with my past comments regarding MVC, Morphic and Balloon, I have unknowingly offended some people. I would like to convey that I do respect their work (infact admire it) but what _I_ need is not what Morphic and Balloon can offer, and none of my comments were targeted to be offensive. Regards, ~Mayuresh

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