Squeak-dev August 2011

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unrecognized unicode characters
by Gonzalo Romano 02 Sep '11

02 Sep '11

Hi, I'been working on a script to fix some xml files for a web application, and I'm having some trouble with character encoding. Tt seems there are some characters that squeak does not recognize like "..." -> u2026, u2014, that ms word uses on their text files... Could anyone confirm this?, and maybe provide a workaround... thanks in advance! -- Gonzalo, Romano

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what's the standard way of finding out from Smalltalk if one is running headless?
by Eliot Miranda 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

I thought to test things like Display extent & DisplayScreen actualScreenDepth but these either fall back to values in the pre-headless image or don't fail and answer the actual display depth, even though the VM is running headless (at least on Mac they do). -- best, Eliot

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Re: The Trunk: Morphic-cmm.570.mcz
by glenpaling 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/The-Trunk-Morphic-cmm-570-mcz-tp3757488p3781967.html Sent from the Squeak - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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About minimal images
by Edgar J. De Cleene 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Craig: I was a fan of Spoon and reading in http://thiscontext.wordpress.com/initial-spoon-modularization/ I do not see Magnitude in the list, having a Class tree names list somewhere ? Edgar

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Spoon 3 alpha 3 released
by Chris Cunnington 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Hi Edgar, Sitting here in Edinburgh with Craig. Don't use another VM. Just use double click the bundle it came with. Likely you're getting an error saying #newResourceInfoFailed: error. It means the Flow plugin is not being found, so the networking framework isn't being found. Put your bug up on Mantis in the Spoon category. You could also open with gdb, save the messages with Flow in them, and print them to the Mantis error. My download is stable, but another guy with Lion is having problems. It's settling out. Chris

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Re: [Pharo-project] Addition to "About Pharo" dialog
by Alexander Lazarević 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Hi Stef! 2011/8/26 Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse(a)inria.fr> > In Squeak alexander lazaverich did a SystemReporter. I wanted to have a > look but got distracted. > It would be good to use it. > Sure thing that I was just about to mention that it is on SqueakSource, when there is no SqueakSource. :-/ Boy, this is annoying. To me it seems that the SqueakSource repo on source.squeak.org received some more love in the past so that it seems to be more stable and responsive. Just for practical reasons (a source repo that's not available over long periods of time just suxx) I'm considering moving my few bits to source.squeak.org until there is a reliable alternative. Wouldn't it make also good sense to move some vital stuff like the vmmaker repo to this destination? I know this will be controversial, but the current situation is bad at best. I think the broken SqueakSource is hurting us more than we know! Alex

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Small comment fix to FFI
by Sean P. DeNigris 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

Fixed FFITextLibrary>>ffiTestChar:with:with:with: comment, was refering to non-existent class FFITester (I'm assuming due to a name change) No write access to repo. http://forum.world.st/file/n3776967/FFITestLibrary-ffiTestCharwithwithwith.… FFITestLibrary-ffiTestCharwithwithwith.st -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Small-comment-fix-to-FFI-tp3776967p3776967.html Sent from the Squeak - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: Halt
by DeNigris Sean 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

What is the purpose of #haltIf: aBlock? Right now, you can pass any of the following to Object>>haltIf: - aBlock taking an optional argument which is automatically set to the receiver of #halt - aSelector which looks up the call chain and halts if present - aBoolean So, whatever the condition is, it seems like you should be able to evaluate it in the calling context. When would you ever need to use a block? Can we eliminate the block behavior? Or, who has a great war story about blocks saving them from imminent doom... Thx. Sean

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Daily Commit Log
by commits＠source.squeak.org 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

Changes to Trunk (http://source.squeak.org/trunk.html) in the last 24 hours: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/packages/2011-August/004941.html Name: Kernel-nice.613 Ancestors: Kernel-cmm.612 Don't provide separate setters for Complex #real: and #imaginary: parts. Instead, provide a single #real:imaginary: initializer, that's faster and safer (like Magnitude, Complex numbers might be shared and it would be dangerous to modify a Complex in place). =============================================

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Re: [squeak-dev] The Trunk: Kernel-nice.613.mcz
by Frank Shearar 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

On 28 August 2011 23:20, <commits(a)source.squeak.org> wrote: > Nicolas Cellier uploaded a new version of Kernel to project The Trunk: > http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Kernel-nice.613.mcz > > ==================== Summary ==================== > > Name: Kernel-nice.613 > Author: nice > Time: 29 August 2011, 12:20:33.523 am > UUID: c5ac2f0a-3419-41d9-a4e5-0331ff55467d > Ancestors: Kernel-cmm.612 > > Don't provide separate setters for Complex #real: and #imaginary: parts. > Instead, provide a single #real:imaginary: initializer, that's faster and safer (like Magnitude, Complex numbers might be shared and it would be dangerous to modify a Complex in place). > > =============== Diff against Kernel-cmm.612 =============== If I read my image correctly, this change is the final bit needed to make Complex "purely functional", in the sense that (apart from the inescapable full-state-setter (and crazy things like #instVarAt:put:)) a Complex's state cannot change. Nice! frank

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