Re: [Newbies] Re: Re: Why hasn't Smalltalk been wildly accepted?

2006-08-11 Thread Blake
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:58:54 -0700, Klaus D. Witzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:43:46 +0200, Michael Kohout wrote: When I get home(and if the weather isn't too nice) I play with Squeak. But when I go to work, I write Java(like a lot of people on this list, I'd imagine).

[Newbies] Re: Why hasn't Smalltalk been wildly accepted?

2006-08-11 Thread Klaus D. Witzel
Hi Blake, on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:48:58 +0200, you wrote: On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:58:54 -0700, Klaus D. Witzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:43:46 +0200, Michael Kohout wrote: When I get home(and if the weather isn't too nice) I play with Squeak. But when I go to work, I

[Newbies] Developer theme/image?

2006-08-11 Thread Dirk Vleugels
Hello, im using squeak3.8-6665full (standard download) on a G4 powerbook to play around with seaside. Everything works (as expected), but i don't like the interface for development: Two questions: Is there a theme (or image) available which removes 90% of the eye candy and adds some nice

Re: [Newbies] no available update servers

2006-08-11 Thread Bakki Kudva
I have been seeing the same thing both at work and at home. Did you figure out what the problem was, if any? thanks, bakki On 8/9/06, Thomas Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Whenever I launch Squeak (v3.8#6665) it asks if I want to check for updates. When I click Yes however, I

Re: [Newbies] no available update servers

2006-08-11 Thread Eric Goebelbecker
I have the same problem. My proxy settings are empty. They were when I checked them. Where can I find the host(s) it is trying to reach? On Friday, August 11, 2006, at 02:17PM, Enrico Schwass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, den 11.08.2006, 10:44 -0700 schrieb Thomas Keller: Not

Re: [Newbies] Re: Re: error trap

2006-08-11 Thread stéphane ducasse
parse into collections automatically. You didn't inspectIt for verifying your (false) claim, didn't you. No I didn't! The { } just looked so wrong and like C! I'm used to #() which of course doesn't work. Also, have a look at the implementors of #caseOf: and #caseOf:otherwise:, they

Re: [Newbies] Developer theme/image?

2006-08-11 Thread stéphane ducasse
use squeak3.9 (gamma version coming soon ;)) but the latest version is really good :) Is there a theme (or image) available which removes 90% of the eye candy and adds some nice monospace fonts for all text-fields (Browser, Workspace, Transcript, etc.)? I played around with preferences

Re: [Newbies] no available update servers

2006-08-11 Thread stéphane ducasse
you should check HTTPSocket stopUsingProxy and related. But do not use update for 3.8 to go 3.9 Get the latest version of 3.9 (in 3.9 we cannot easily use software update since we use Monticello and got some problems since Squeak is not easy to maintain with a new packaging system).

[Newbies] Re: error trap

2006-08-11 Thread Klaus D. Witzel
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:00:03 +0200, stéphane ducasse wrote: Klaus wrote: Yes. And, into the other direction, even in good core methods one often finds things like ^ dict at: aKey ifAbsent: [nil] this is much better. Why do you call failures in understanding things like this better, Stef?