[squeak-dev] Re: A little 4.1 press coverage

Lawson English lenglish5 at cox.net
Thu Apr 29 13:04:26 UTC 2010


Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 29.04.2010, at 00:05, Ian Trudel wrote:
>   
>>>> That caught my eye. How do people actually develop with "one-click
>>>> images"? I mean, I came up with that concept in the first place, but it was
>>>> meant for deploying applications, not for development. You can't even save
>>>> the image under a different name. So while I see the appeal to people giving
>>>> it a casual look, do you really think that should be the default download?
>>>> - Bert -
>>>>         
>> Bert, saving an image under a different name in the installed
>> directory will result into opening a dialog box to select an image.
>>     
>
> Nope. Saving under a different name creates a copy. Next time you run, it will use the former image, the name of which is known to the VM. It's listed in Info.plist for Mac, squeak.ini for Windows, and squeak.sh for Linux/*nix.
>
>   
>> There is something to be clear about the whole thing, having to
>> download a VM, an image and source files separately is newcomers
>> unfriendly.
>>     
>
> Agreed. Let's build it. But Amazon marketing be damned, please don't call it "1-click". Makes me cringe every time.
>
> Actually ... I just made one. Only tested on Mac and Linux-i686, but chances are it works on Windows, too:
>
> http://ftp.squeak.org/Experiments/Squeak-4.1-All-in-One.zip
>
> - Bert -
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This works with Mac OS X and the Pharo 1-click to provide a selection of 
images kept in the .app directory.

tell application "Finder"
    set myAlias to folder "Resources" of folder "Contents" of 
application file "Pharo-1.0.app" of folder "Desktop" of folder 
"lawsonenglish" of folder "Users" of startup disk
    open (choose file of type "image" default location myAlias as alias)
end tell



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