Re: [Newbies] perform withArguments

2012-04-24 Thread Dawson
Hi, actually, that is not quite what we want to do (we meaning my son and I in our first squeak project). Since we were unable to assemble the message, we ended up doing a brute force method to get it to work: lockCell: aBoolean row: aRow column: aColumn self addressToCellNumber: aRow

[Newbies] Re: Re: perform withArguments

2012-04-24 Thread Louis LaBrunda
Hi Bert, Ah that's curious - your reply did not have a Re: and was not threaded with the original message. Would have saved me to write a message very similar to yours ;) - Bert - Sorry about that. I don't like seeing all the Re: Re: filling up the subject line often to the point where

[Newbies] Re: Re: perform withArguments

2012-04-24 Thread Louis LaBrunda
Hi Dawson and Dawson's 15 year old son, From your code below, I assume that somewhere in your program you have created (instantiated) nine cells in instance variables named cell1-cell9. This is fine but you should realize that they (cell1-cell9) are variables that hold pointers to the objects and

Re: [Newbies] perform withArguments

2012-04-24 Thread Dawson
Hi Louis, Thanks, your advice looks very good here we hadn't even thought about ordered collections (we studied the Squeak by example book before we started our project, but sometimes it's hard to figure out when exactly you might need to use stuff you read about, even if you do the examples) ..

Re: [Newbies] Re: Re: perform withArguments

2012-04-24 Thread Dawson
Hi Louis, thanks for your very helpful posts, particularly the most recent one ... On 24/04/12 6:49 PM, Louis LaBrunda wrote: Hi Dawson and Dawson's 15 year old son, From your code below, I assume that somewhere in your program you have created (instantiated) nine cells in instance variables

Re: [Newbies] perform withArguments

2012-04-24 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 24.04.2012, at 10:59, Dawson wrote: .. I had thought there might be a way of building up the cellObject cellLock: aBoolean ... judging from the replies, it seems that it is either a) crazy, b) it can't be done, c) no one knows how to do it. It's a) crazy. Of course there's a way to do

Re: [Newbies] Re: perform withArguments

2012-04-24 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 24.04.2012, at 11:34, Louis LaBrunda wrote: .. I had thought there might be a way of building up the cellObject cellLock: aBoolean ... judging from the replies, it seems that it is either a) crazy, b) it can't be done, c) no one knows how to do it. I don't know if I would say it is

[Newbies] Re: perform withArguments

2012-04-24 Thread Louis LaBrunda
Hi Dawson, Snip... Yes, I was using inexact language here (back to everything is an object ... are pointers in Squeak considered objects then? or is this a case of something that isn't an object in Squeak?) Well everything is an object in Smalltalk. If you really had to you could probably get

Re: [Newbies] Re: Re: perform withArguments

2012-04-24 Thread Ben Coman
Dawson wrote: Hi Louis, thanks for your very helpful posts, particularly the most recent one ... On 24/04/12 6:49 PM, Louis LaBrunda wrote: Hi Dawson and Dawson's 15 year old son, From your code below, I assume that somewhere in your program you have created (instantiated) nine