Squeak-dev January 2007

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Tracing the Dynabook: A Dissertation
by John Maxwell 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

Hi, everybody, For the past few years, I have been working on a historical study on the Dynabook vision as conceived in the early 1970s as well as how the idea and its various incarnations have played out in the intervening three-and-a-half decades. This has been part of my PhD work in education at the University of BC -- as such, I am working from an educational perspective, rather than a compsci one. As of November 2006 I finally finished the thing, and successfully defended it. I hereby unleash it on this community, in the hopes that it will provoke discussion on the Squeak-oriented mailing lists and beyond. Squeak-dev and Squeakland have been major resources to me all the while, and I'd like to thank everyone on these lists for providing such a rich ongoing commentary. The entire work is roughly 300 pages. This link is to a PDF just under 2 megabytes. At some point, if I have some time, I want to break this out into some more granular web pages, but I'm already late in releasing it, so here it is in its entirety. You can find it (along with a brief abstract and ToC) at: http://thinkubator.ccsp.sfu.ca/Dynabook/dissertation I'm very interested in any comments you might have. - John Maxwell Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing Simon Fraser University jmax(a)sfu.ca

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function key.
by John M McIntosh 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

Someone asked me about the function key as a modifier on os-x and Squeak. The macintosh carbon VM does see the fact that the function key is pressed. However the 1984 keyboard model that Squeak uses says.... /* This table maps the 5 Macintosh modifier key bits to 4 Squeak modifier bits. (The Mac shift and caps lock keys are both mapped to the single Squeak shift bit). This was true for squeak upto 3.0.7. Then in 3.0.8 we decided to not map the cap lock key to shift Mac bits: <control><option><caps lock><shift><command> ST bits: <command><option><control><shift> */ So we don't pass on the function key. Soo is there any interest? Likely I might need to pass it up in some other field, plus of course it might not be support on windows or basic unix... -- ======================================================================== === John M. McIntosh <johnmci(a)smalltalkconsulting.com> Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com ======================================================================== ===

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Last Glorp Release
by Giuseppe Luigi Punzi 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Hi. I'm trying to download the lastest Glorp version for Squeak. Glorp site[1] has a link to Squeak Port[2] but the link doesn't work. The lastest Glorp version is 0.4.43 (2006-08-10) and the squeakmap version seems to be outdated 0.3.138 (2005-06-09). ¿Somebody knows where can I get it? [1] http://www.glorp.org/versions.html [2] http://www.smalltalkpro.com/squeakextras.html

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Debugging of processes
by Martin Beck 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Hi there, how can I debug a process with full stack, etc.? If I just call self halt in it, I get only the self halt method, but no stack. process debug doesn't seem to work either. The process was startet with [] forkNamed... Help would be appreciated. Bye, Martin

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Running Squeak as a Linux service
by Noury Bouraqadi 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Hi, I have a Swiki on a machine and I want to make it run as a linux service and be able to start it and stop it from the OS. Any hint? Thanks, Noury ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Noury Bouraqadi - Enseignant/Chercheur ARMINES - Ecole des Mines de Douai - Dept. I.A. http://csl.ensm-douai.fr/noury European Smalltalk Users Group Board http://www.esug.org ------------------------------------------------------------------

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Stdout and Stderr
by Keith Hodges 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Hello, just a quick question, are any of the VM's particularly the unixish ones, wired to produce output on stdout or stderr. Are there primitives for doing so without any plugins? thanks in advance Keith ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com

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Smalltalk logo
by Damien Cassou 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Hi, it seems ESUG 2006 saw the creation of a new Smalltalk Logo. Where is it please ? Something with 2 square braquets and a pipe : "[|]" ! Thank you very much -- Damien Envoyez vos cartes de voeux depuis www.laposte.net Elles seront ensuite distribuées par le facteur : pratique et malin !

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Win32-Squeak
by Martin Beck 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Hi there, I've got the following simple socket test: testUdpSockets | testMessage dst src buff count | testMessage := 'a test'. dst := Socket newUDP setPort: 55555. src := Socket newUDP. src sendUDPData: testMessage toHost: (ByteArray withAll: {127. 0. 0. 1.}) port: dst port. buff := ByteArray new: 100. dst waitForData. count := dst receiveUDPDataInto: buff. self assert: (buff copyFrom: 1 to: count first) asString = testMessage. dst closeAndDestroy. src closeAndDestroy. With Linux it just works. However, with the downloadable Win32-SqueakVM (from squeak.org) it fails... A somehow self compiled (therefore instable) vm for windows doesnt fail. Is the windows vm still maintained by anyone? Will there be a new binary release in the near future? Regards, Martin

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Re: Smalltalk logo
by Damien Cassou 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

> Damien Cassou wrote: > > Hi, > > > > it seems ESUG 2006 saw the creation of a new Smalltalk Logo. > > Where is it please ? Something with 2 square braquets and a > > pipe : "[|]" ! > > I believe that would be the crest of the Knights of the Square Bracket, > and it pre-dates ESUG 2006. > > http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/travis/blogView?showComments=true&… > It seems there exists a newer version. Envoyez vos cartes de voeux depuis www.laposte.net Elles seront ensuite distribuées par le facteur : pratique et malin !

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Re: Smalltalk logo
by Damien Cassou 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Not this one. > You talk about this? > > http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/sticBlog/blogView?showComments=tru… > > > Hi, > > > > it seems ESUG 2006 saw the creation of a new Smalltalk Logo. > > Where is it please ? Something with 2 square braquets and a > > pipe : "[|]" ! > > > > > > Thank you very much > > > > > > -- > > Damien > > > > Envoyez vos cartes de voeux depuis www.laposte.net > > Elles seront ensuite distribuées par le facteur : pratique et malin ! > > Envoyez vos cartes de voeux depuis www.laposte.net Elles seront ensuite distribuées par le facteur : pratique et malin !

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