Squeak-dev October 2003

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[FIX] TextDeprecationFix
by Daniel Vainsencher 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

from preamble: "Change Set: TextDeprecationFix Date: 1 October 2003 Author: Daniel Vainsencher Upgrade users of the deprecated rangeOf:startingAt:forStyle: to the preferred rangeOf:startingAt:"!

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[FIX][KCP] KCP-0097-NewPointOrNil
by ducasse＠iam.unibe.ch 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

from preamble: "Change Set: KCP-0097-PointOrNil Date: 2 July 2003 Author: stephane ducasse Move obtainArrowheadFor:defaultValue: from Utilities to Preferences as it was the only sender with morph. Update morph accordingly. Note that now obtainArrowheadFor:defaultValue: only accept point and not coma separated number as it was the only way it was used. Refactor a bit the magic number that represent the default arrow head size and introduce a method for it."!

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SM 1.09 pending, more issues?
by goran.krampe＠bluefish.se 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

Hi all! I am putting together a 1.09 release of SqueakMap. I have collected postings for a while with issues and below is a summary of what I have today. For you who know about a problem today - please check the list. This version may possibly be registered initially as a separate package so that we can do some beta testing on it before replacing 1.08. Some of the changes have touched quite some code - though not "domain code" so it would typically be UI issues. regards, Göran First some still known problems: - Sitting behind a web proxy in a Squeak prior to 3.6 (the network rewrite) still has an issue. If this annoys someone please holler! (HTTPSocket>>httpGet: doesn't time out properly so I use a name lookup first - which doesn't work behind a proxy - and I can't see if I have a proxy because the method to check that came later...) - Setting CrLfFileStream as StandardFileStream still doesn't work. FIX is pending from Lex to get in (Can someone check BFAV for the status on that? http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/squeak/1783720) - Verisigns wildcard matching for .com and .net domains can cause a misspelled server name in a downloadUrl to cause a HTML file to be downloaded instead of the intended file... Funny eh? I hope they stop with that nonsense. Fixed sofar: - #forPackage:directory: now throws error if no installer is found. This affects SMSqueakMap methods #installPackageWithId:, #installPackageNamed: and #upgradeOldPackagesDirectory: which now traps this and informs the user. (still ignoring headless operation, will wait until SM2) Note that: SMLoader>>upgradeInstalledPackages doesn't catch this but who uses that? :-). #installPackage and #downloadPackage don't either but they aren't available in the menu unless there is an installer found to deal with the selected package. - Uses withBlanksTrimmed in lastTransactionInLog (makes it work better with CrLfFileStreams I assume) - SMInstaller generally now uses Exceptions instead of true/false logic and callers now relies on Errors being signaled. - Only use name resolving in SMSqueakMap class>>pingServer: in a Squeak with version below network rewrite. The issue with proxies for older Squeaks is thus ignored - people using proxyserver will just have to use a 3.6 image. Ok? :-) - Sightly smarter logic in synchWithLog (detecting missing directory AND logfile) - Better error handling in SMSqueakMap>>installPackageNamed: and installPackageWithId: (typically used in scripts). - Better error handling generally. Small patch pending for SM Package Loader too. :-) - Better error handling generally. Patch pending for SM Package Loader so that install/download/upgrade/update map uses Exception handling gracefully. :-) - Improved DVS installer (that hopefully works now) - DVS not installed in SqueakMap loadscript, MCInstaller takes its place as new default.

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[FIX][KCP] KCP-0104-VMStatistic
by ducasse＠iam.unibe.ch 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

from preamble: "Change Set: KCP-0104-VMStatistic Date: 24 September 2003 Author: stephane ducasse This changeset move some VM report utilities from systemDictionary to SmalltalkImage"!

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[FIX][KCP] KCP-0106-MoveModuletoSmalltalkImage
by ducasse＠iam.unibe.ch 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

from preamble: "Change Set: KCP-0106-MoveModuletoSmalltalkImage Date: 24 September 2003 Author: stephane ducasse Extract form SystemDictionary all the primitives working on the modules and define them on the class SmalltalkImage."!

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[ENH][REFACTOR] GenieCleanup
by adspitz＠yahoo.ca 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

from preamble: "Change Set: GenieCleanup Date: 5 August 2003 Author: Adam Spitz Moves various Genie things into *genie categories. Also does a lot of very ugly things using #respondsTo:. Don't accept this changeset into the image; I'm just offering it as a starting point, so that someone who understands Genie can do a proper cleanup." EventHandler organization classifyAll: { #handlesGesture:. #handlesGestureStart:. } under: '*genie'. FlapTab organization classifyAll: { #addGenieMenuItems:hand:. } under: '*genie-menu'. HandMorph organization classifyAll: { #allowsGestureStart:target:. #disableGenie. #disableGenieFocus:. #enableGenie. #ensureGenieGestureProcessor. #gestureStart:target:. #giveGenieChanceToEscape. #handleEventWithGenieEscaped:. #isGenieEnabled. #prepareMouseFocusChangeFrom:to:. #resetGenie. #switchGenieEnabled. #switchGenieFocus:. } under: '*genie'. Morph organization classifyAll: { #blueButtonClickHand:shift:. #gesture:. #gestureCode:. #gestureCommand:. #gestureKeystrokes:. #gestureMouseEvent:. #gestureStrokes:. #handleGesture:. #isGestureUndoable:. #isSpecialCharacterUndoable:. #modifyGesture:by:. #undoGesture:. } under: '*genie-dispatching'. Morph organization classifyAll: { #addGenieMenuItems:hand:. #changeGestureDictionary. #hasNotExportedGestureDictionary. #hasReferencedGestureDictionary. #inspectGestureDictionary. #makeOwnCopyOfGestureDictionary. #makeOwnSubGestureDictionary. } under: '*genie-menu'. Morph organization classifyAll: { #allowsGestureEscape. #allowsGesturePreprocessing. #allowsGestureStart:. #defaultGestureDictionaryOrName. #disableGestures. #gestureDictionary. #gestureDictionaryOrName. #gestureDictionaryOrName:. #gestureHandler. #gestureStart:. #handlesGestureStart:. #onGestureSend:to:. } under: '*genie-processing'. MouseButtonEvent organization classifyAll: { #addMouseButtons:. #toggleMouseButtons:. } under: '*genie'. MouseEvent organization classifyAll: { #addMouseButtons:. #toggleBlueButton. #toggleMouseButtons:. #toggleRedButton. #toggleYellowButton. } under: '*genie'. PasteUpMorph organization classifyAll: { #allowsGestureStart:. } under: '*genie-processing'. PluggableTextMorph organization classifyAll: { #handleGesture:. } under: '*genie-dispatching'. TextMorph organization classifyAll: { #handleGesture:. #lastGesture. #lastGesture:. #setAlignment:. } under: '*genie-dispatching'. TextMorph organization classifyAll: { #defaultGestureDictionaryOrName. #gestureHandler. } under: '*genie-processing'. UserInputEvent organization classifyAll: { #addButtons:. #toggleButtons:. #toggleCommandKey. #toggleControlKey. #toggleMacOptionKey. #toggleShift. } under: '*genie'.!

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[Babel] Where to translate?
by diegogomezdeck＠consultar.com 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

Hi Scott... Thanks for your interest to make squeak translatable! I think that you're proposing can be thought as "translation in the view" and the path we follow with the current version of babel is "translation in the model". If we follow the idea of making the translation a responsibility for the view we have to expand the protocol for all the widgets (morph, mvc, html frameworks, etc) including some support to put on them "expandable" strings to avoid the translation of every combination of concatenated strings. (The same idea behind the #format: method in Babel but in the widgets). If we follow the idea of making the model translatable, we have to touch all the models (just like we made). I think a mix is not an option. I prefer more work but clear concept and not a mix of concepts just to reduce the amount of involve code. The changeset you give as an example (the one with 160 methods) took me just 1 hour of work. On the other side there are a lot of things that don't match the model/view separation, example: is the name of a morph view or model? what about the menus? I see problems and benefits in both models but I don't think a mix is a good option. Let's decide on one of them and let's follow it without counting methods. Cheers, Diego Gomez Deck http://www.small-land.org

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Helping with Harvesting
by Marcus Denker 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

Squeakers, Soon the alpha phase of 3.7 will start. That's the time we have for really folding in all the ehancements that were posted to list list over the last months. The nice thing is: Everyone can help with this! There is a nice Document on the Wiki: Commenting Bugs and Fixes: http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/3103 So if please fire up the BFAV, and tell the world which changes you really like to see in 3.7. This allready would help a lot. And even better would be some testing, code review, and SUnit-Tests. Marcus -- Marcus Denker marcus(a)ira.uka.de -- Squeak! http://squeak.de

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AW: Recommended books
by Torsten.Bergmann＠phaidros.com 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

You can download some free Smalltalk books from http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/WebPages/FreeBooks.html Torsten -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Tim Will [mailto:tyguy11@comcast.net] Gesendet: Dienstag, 30. September 2003 19:34 An: squeak-dev(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org Betreff: Recommended books /"Squeak has always struck me as a computer science degree in a box." Jim Benson/ I have used squeak in the past mostly using connectors to make diagrams along with just having fun. I came across the quote above and it inspired me to take a deeper look at squeak and begin learning to program. I have several books including both squeak books by Mark Guzdial and Chamond Liu's "Smalltalk, Objects, and Design". Question: If one was to teach themselves programming using squeak, what books would they use other than the ones I mentioned above? I am particularly interested in anything related to algorithms. These books don't have to necessarily pertain only to squeak or smalltalk. Thanks, Tim

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[ENH] FlashCleanup
by adspitz＠yahoo.ca 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

from preamble: "Change Set: FlashCleanup Date: 31 July 2003 Author: Adam Spitz Recategorizes some stuff in order to turn the Flash code into a single PackageInfo package with no external dependents. Notice that this changeset lumps ProgressMorph in with the Flash stuff. I think this is a bad idea, but I don't know what to do about it. Is there some reason why we shouldn't have a progress-bar thingy that doesn't depend on Flash?" !

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