Re: [Newbies] Problems with do:

2006-09-17 Thread stéphane ducasse
hi ralph why in your pattern you have block around Stream classes ? Stef On 17 sept. 06, at 01:28, Ralph Johnson wrote: You could do something like [aFileStream atEnd] whileFalse: [line := aFileStream nextLine. Transcipt show: line: cr.] Alternatively, you could convert your stream of

Re: [Newbies] How do I test and share code?

2006-09-16 Thread stéphane ducasse
On 16 sept. 06, at 15:39, David Pollak wrote: Folks, I've written a couple of classes that add web-based user management to Pier. The classes let you add new users, remove users, set user's passwords, bless users as superusers, etc. I want to see that :) Do you use the underlying model

Re: [Newbies] problems with SqueakMap account

2006-09-15 Thread stéphane ducasse
have fun :) Stephane, very helpful, thank you. -- dave if you have any ideas for other videos let me know. I need some inputs to understand what confused people or what they want to learn. Stef ___ Beginners mailing list

Re: [Newbies] The Weekly Squeak is back!

2006-09-06 Thread stéphane ducasse
On 6 sept. 06, at 10:08, Michael Rueger wrote: Hi, the web site for Sophie is http://sophieproject.org. Well, at least it will be ;-) Excellent logo! The are download links on the developer site http:// dev.sophieproject.org. We are in the process of getting a release ready, so the

Re: [Newbies] what no Smalltalk at OOPSLA2006?

2006-09-03 Thread stéphane ducasse
true! May be next year we should propose a Smalltalk tutorial. Stef On 2 sept. 06, at 14:02, Ralph Johnson wrote: The main reason there aren't any Smalltalk related events at OOPSLA is that people don't propose them. Posters, workshops and demos accept nearly all the proposals, so if you

Re: [Newbies] what no Smalltalk at OOPSLA2006?

2006-09-02 Thread stéphane ducasse
People believe that Smalltalk is old, slow so after a while this is boring to fight with them. If you want to see a lot of Smalltalk, apply to the student volunteer program of ESUG next year and you will get a crazy conference for free with Smalltalk all day long. Stef On 31 août 06,

Re: [Newbies] I am not sure if choose squeak/smalltalk or another language. HELP

2006-09-02 Thread stéphane ducasse
Did you try my environment for teaching kids how to program? http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/botsinc/ Have a look at the videos. Now that 3.9 is out I should produce a new version which will be certainly faster Stef On 31 août 06, at 18:02, Antonio San. wrote: Hi! I'm a total newbie at all ;-)

Re: [Newbies] How to partition an application

2006-08-25 Thread stéphane ducasse
hi have a look at my video and also the chapter on monticello in the lectures support. http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/Videos/ http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/Teaching/CoursAnnecy/0506-M1-OOP/ OOPAvance.pdf On 25 août 06, at 16:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am slowly moving along

Re: [Newbies] FFI, pragma and co...

2006-08-21 Thread stéphane ducasse
Additionally, some primitives are optional, they are only used to speed up lengthy computations. Like searching in a string or adding large numbers (ever tried 1000 factorial ?). If the primitive is not available, the Smalltalk code will be executed instead. look at @ the point creation

Re: [Newbies] Serialize domain model

2006-08-17 Thread stéphane ducasse
You have SRP check on squeaksource we just imported it. On 17 août 06, at 06:44, ernst wrote: Is there an equivalent to VisualWorks Binary Object Storage System (BOSS) in Squeak? (BOSS can write out the complete object graph to a file and create it again from the file.) Thanks Ernst --

Re: [Newbies] Squeak and Pocket PC questions

2006-08-16 Thread stéphane ducasse
Certainly, Pavel got really good results so far. Stef On 16 août 06, at 09:35, Petr Fischer wrote: stéphane ducasse píše v Út 15. 08. 2006 v 20:40 +0200: Did you try? Since the latest version is in total smaller than 3.7 Of course! Max main memory size on squeak start page is 12MB. 3.9

Re: [Newbies] Squeak and Pocket PC questions

2006-08-15 Thread stéphane ducasse
Did you try? Since the latest version is in total smaller than 3.7 On 15 août 06, at 18:08, Petr Fischer wrote: Squeak 3.9 dev image is too big for Pocket PC VM (I guess). ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org

Re: [Newbies] Re: license

2006-08-15 Thread stéphane ducasse
In fact in earlier version of Squeak Apple fonts were used. So now this clause does not hold anymore. Hi, I'm reading the squeak licence, and there are several points tha I don't fully understand. :) 2. Permitted Uses and Restrictions. This License allows you to copy, install and use the

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

2006-08-14 Thread stéphane ducasse
you are right! BTW did you try http://smallwiki.unibe.ch/Botsinc for your kids and also Plop (but that this is really for the total fun). You should have a look at Dolphin this is even slicker :) Stef On 14 août 06, at 07:46, christo wrote: Hi All, I'm VERY new to Smalltalk and I'm

Re: [Newbies] Re: Instance Creation Howto

2006-08-14 Thread stéphane ducasse
Hi this solution is not really adequate since initializer is an instance method therefore the ComplexClass new is created but to receive the message initializer we need to already have an instance. :) Stef On 14 août 06, at 16:18, Thiyagarajan wrote: hello aComplex := ComplexClass new.

Re: [Newbies] Packages and dependencies (squeakmap and monticello)

2006-08-13 Thread stéphane ducasse
On 13 août 06, at 17:22, Damien Cassou wrote: itsme213 wrote: I am a bit surprised that packages in squeakmap (and monticello?) do not seem to be aware of package dependencies. There may be historical or technical reasons for this, but for someone coming from Ruby I really miss the

Re: [Newbies] remove syntax highlighting

2006-08-13 Thread stéphane ducasse
On 13 août 06, at 20:15, Chris Kassopulo wrote: Greetings, I've been away from Squeak for a while, but I'm back. welcome back I installed a package from Squeakmap called LogicGate. The code from the package contains syntax highlighting and the indentation is bizarre. can you explain if

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).

Re: [Newbies] SMMaintainableObject?

2006-08-03 Thread stéphane ducasse
To complement: in general do not through away your changes and image (use them always in couple the changes contains the log of what you did and can be handy to rescue some code). but do not forget to save your code either as fileout (click on class category - fileout) or use Monticello to

Re: [Newbies] Plain file editing

2006-07-03 Thread stéphane ducasse
On 2 juil. 06, at 00:42, itsme213 wrote: Is there an easy way, within squeak itself, to open a text editor on an entire class and simply edit the file and save the entire file (equivalently, file-in the string-buffer). I find I am quicker with this than all the mousing around, specially

Re: [Newbies] what's the existing projects to save objects?

2006-06-27 Thread stéphane ducasse
You have SIXX on SqueakMap it saves objects are binary wrapped with XML I guess but I did not find the time to look at SRP that there is something there too. You should not be impressed and dare to ask questions to squeak-dev :) Stef On 22 juin 06, at 19:01, trolat..florent wrote:

Re: [Newbies] Exemple of pattern

2006-06-22 Thread stéphane ducasse
In fact it would be really nice to have a list of the pattern usage. Stef Il giorno mer, 21/06/2006 alle 14.07 +0200, Mathieu SUEN ha scritto: Hi, I was wondering were I can find some concret exemple of Decorator pattern in squeak. In Squeak 3.8, look at the FlashFileStream class. And

Re: [Newbies] linux squeak startup

2006-06-21 Thread stéphane ducasse
My unxi is rusty but exec should not kill the process when the shell exits. Stef On 20 juin 06, at 16:42, cdrick wrote: Hi all :) do you know how to make an init.d script to start squeak each time a linux server starts... It's for seaside. For now I use a command line squeak

Re: [Newbies] Exemple of pattern

2006-06-21 Thread stéphane ducasse
But this is different :) and in seaside just the name is the same. The decorator in Seaside are in fact chain of responsibility :) Stef On 21 juin 06, at 14:39, Damien Cassou wrote: Mathieu SUEN a écrit : Hi, I was wondering were I can find some concret exemple of Decorator pattern in

Re: [Newbies] Primitive stuff

2006-06-05 Thread stéphane ducasse
contains all the source code of the bytecode of the methods (that are not in the changes). Normally it would be good to have a new source for squeak 4.0 and having a changes files that is empty. Stef On 4 juin 06, at 20:18, mathieu wrote: And what do SqueakV3.sources file serve for?

Re: [Newbies] World Menu

2006-06-03 Thread stéphane ducasse
It may since people do not want kids to have full access to squeak when doing maths exercises :) On 3 juin 06, at 17:17, mathieu wrote: Those it normal that world menu dosen't appear anymore when I change theme to smallLand in 3.9?

Re: [Newbies] Squeak map on 3.9

2006-06-03 Thread stéphane ducasse
Mathieu I still have to apply some fixes to 3.9 so that squeak map behaves in a better way. Sorry I'm sick and busy... Stef On 3 juin 06, at 19:33, mathieu wrote: Why do I have the message: Reading an instance of SMMaintainableObject Which modern class should I translate to? I don't

Re: [Newbies] Smacc

2006-06-01 Thread stéphane ducasse
But it would be nice to contact the Smacc maintainer = marcsu denker and see what was the problem. Stef On 31 mai 06, at 19:27, mathieu wrote: stéphane ducasse a écrit : I suggest you to post in squeak-dev since Smacc topic are more advanced :) Stef Ok thanks for the advise. In fact I

Re: [Newbies] Update very long

2006-05-31 Thread stéphane ducasse
math in the past we used cs which where really fast but where not packages. For 3.9 we used MC which is too slow. So this is clearly not satisfactory but progress is happening with pain sometimes :) Stef On 30 mai 06, at 22:05, mathieu wrote: Hi, I have try to update squeak (3.9b) from

[Newbies] Hi all

2006-05-07 Thread stéphane ducasse
Hi all Do not hesitate to use this mailing list :) Stef ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

Re: [Newbies] About nabble

2006-05-07 Thread stéphane ducasse
Hi serge but do you know why we cannot see it on nabble? hi I realized that the admin of the list was not automatically part of the list :). I have a question. Someone told me that the beginner list could be read via nabble but I could not find it.