Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN][Dev-Images] February 2009 versions

2009-02-10 Thread Bill Schwab
Damien, Is there a Pharo-web link? Apologies if I'm missing the obvious. Thanks! Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: bsch...@anest.ufl.edu Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029

Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN][Dev-Images] February 2009 versions

2009-02-10 Thread Bill Schwab
:16 AM On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Bill Schwab bsch...@anest.ufl.edu wrote: Is there a Pharo-web link? Apologies if I'm missing the obvious. I'm not generating pharo-web images because nobody asked as far as I remember. Do you want one? (that won't cost much don't worry :-)) -- Damien

Re: [Pharo-project] Call for UI gripes

2009-02-10 Thread Bill Schwab
gripes On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 17:58, Bill Schwab bsch...@anest.ufl.edu wrote: I suppose I could suggest replacing some of the button bars with more compact iconic toolbars. Things like debugging over, into, etc. lend themselves well to that. The world menu will not make much sense if we

Re: [Pharo-project] Problem with linux VM and Pharo

2009-02-10 Thread Bill Schwab
Damien, I am not seeing that, but I am probably not using the right VM anyway: bi...@ubuntu-9905:~$ squeak -version 3.9-8 #5 Tue Oct 10 11:56:09 PDT 2006 gcc 4.0.3 Squeak3.9alpha of 4 July 2005 [latest update: #7021] Linux ubuntu 2.6.15-27-386 #1 PREEMPT Sat Sep 16 01:51:59 UTC 2006 i686

Re: [Pharo-project] [ANN][Dev-Images] February 2009 versions

2009-02-10 Thread Bill Schwab
) 392-7029 damien.cas...@gmail.com 02/10/09 9:23 AM On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Bill Schwab bsch...@anest.ufl.edu wrote: If it is really not a problem, I would like to try it. I can't because of bug http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=520 -- Damien Cassou http

Re: [Pharo-project] Call for UI gripes

2009-02-10 Thread Bill Schwab
Gary, I need to play more later, but that appears to make a significant difference. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: bsch...@anest.ufl.edu Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029

[Pharo-project] {Spam?} Re: Real packages.

2009-02-10 Thread Bill Schwab
Stef, Re Dolphin, class categories have long been of marginal use; I'll speak for myself on that but suspect others would agree. Packages are of course extremely useful. Method categories are also quite useful, and Dolphin allows multiple categories to be assigned to a given method. Dolphin

Re: [Pharo-project] Call for UI gripes

2009-02-08 Thread Bill Schwab
100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: bsch...@anest.ufl.edu Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029 damien.pol...@gmail.com 02/08/09 8:52 AM On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 17:58, Bill Schwab bsch...@anest.ufl.edu wrote: I suppose I could suggest replacing some of the button bars with more compact

Re: [Pharo-project] Call for UI gripes

2009-02-07 Thread Bill Schwab
Gary, I suppose I could suggest replacing some of the button bars with more compact iconic toolbars. Things like debugging over, into, etc. lend themselves well to that. The world menu will not make much sense if we ever get one window per shell. The biggest concern I have right now is

Re: [Pharo-project] Questions, Ideas, suggestions?

2009-02-02 Thread Bill Schwab
Others can correct/amend as appropriate, but a few answers: Mailing lists have long been used for Squeak, and it is part of the culture. One good thing is that they are archived and searchable, IF you know where to look. If you can tolerate some link-rot, you can start here:

Re: [Pharo-project] [ENH] Literal Byte Arrays

2009-01-30 Thread Bill Schwab
Lukas, I had pretty much resigned to going without this - not sure why given how much I grip about other stuff :) There are indeed efficiency considerations, but it's also a big step in compatibility. THANKS!!! Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of

Re: [Pharo-project] {Spam?} Names for the pharo scripting syntax

2009-01-19 Thread Bill Schwab
Stef, My first reaction is why is it not Smalltalk? Not the name, but the language itself. Is there something I missed/should read to understand it? Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email:

Re: [Pharo-project] {Spam?} about printOnDelimiter vs asStringOn: delimiter:

2009-01-16 Thread Bill Schwab
Stef, I suspect that Object Arts would favor #printOn:delimiter:. They would also probably have a #displayOn:delimeter: method. Their approach is that one 'displays' for users and 'prints' for developers; they generally don't much like #as* methods, with the exception of true conversion methods

Re: [Pharo-project] {Spam?} about printOnDelimiter vs asStringOn: delimiter:

2009-01-16 Thread Bill Schwab
the printString of the contained element ) does not make too much sense to me. stef On Jan 16, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Bill Schwab wrote: Stef, I suspect that Object Arts would favor #printOn:delimiter:. They would also probably have a #displayOn:delimeter: method. Their approach is that one

Re: [Pharo-project] {Spam?} Workspace Enhancement

2009-01-16 Thread Bill Schwab
Alexandre, I think it makes sense for a workspace (the shell/tool type) to warn before going away, but I agree that being prompted for every inspector that I want to close is a pain. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL

[Pharo-project] {Spam?} Re: AlignementMorphBob1 removed

2009-01-15 Thread Bill Schwab
Stef, There is nothing to stop us and others from having fun on top of a clean system with a user interface that can meet the expectations of users, paying and otherwise. The cleanup is long overdue and very much starting to show. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida

Re: [Pharo-project] Watery2

2009-01-14 Thread Bill Schwab
Gary, No argument here. I find Watery a little bright for my taste, but suspect that will ease off when I set the background colors to my preference. There are aspects of Vistary that I like, though at least in the older versions that I have used more extensively, there is a little bit of a

Re: [Pharo-project] GUI editor, etc.

2009-01-13 Thread Bill Schwab
:-) Regards, Gary -- From: Bill Schwab bsch...@anest.ufl.edu To: pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Sent: Friday, 9 January, 2009 4:16:55 AM Subject: [Pharo-project] GUI editor, etc. Hello all, There was some

Re: [Pharo-project] Check if you launch Pharo without display

2009-01-09 Thread Bill Schwab
FWIW, Dolphin has an interesting approach to this kind problem. As the image loads, it creates a session manager. There is a hierarchy of such classes for GUI and headless systems. GUI session managers take care of creating and showing the app's main window. I asked a similar question not long

Re: [Pharo-project] Splitting network package

2009-01-08 Thread Bill Schwab
Michael, It might be nice to involve the cryptography maintainers; their work could probably just add onto the structure you create. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: bsch...@anest.ufl.edu Tel:

Re: [Pharo-project] Splitting network package

2009-01-08 Thread Bill Schwab
...@anest.ufl.edu Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029 m.rue...@acm.org 01/08/09 2:01 PM Bill Schwab wrote: Michael, It might be nice to involve the cryptography maintainers; their work could probably just add onto the structure you create. Great suggestion! Will do Michael

[Pharo-project] GUI editor, etc.

2009-01-08 Thread Bill Schwab
Hello all, There was some recent mention of GUI frameworks and/or an editor. For fear of losing the idea, I will just throw this out now while I am thinking of it. I submit that one needs both a drag/drop graphical tool, and a programmatic capability. The graphical approach works well for

Re: [Pharo-project] Underscores question

2009-01-06 Thread Bill Schwab
Gwenael, Is the plan to do this for 1.0? Have you considered a flag for _ assignment? It seems like something that would be most useful on file-in, unless you think you can make it all work at the same time. Shortly after m17n gained acceptance, I re-raised the question of whether _ really

Re: [Pharo-project] Underscores question

2009-01-06 Thread Bill Schwab
Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de Subject: Re: 3.9 underscore still there? Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.general Date: 2006-10-30 20:18:13 GMT (2 years, 9 weeks, 5 days, 6 hours and 46 minutes ago) Bill Schwab wrote: My preference would be for ANSI compatibility. With that said, having

Re: [Pharo-project] Next Issue ;-)

2009-01-06 Thread Bill Schwab
I saw some similar goofiness at one point, but do not recall whether it was related to cryptography. I am interested in it and the SSL classes. I managed to install same at one point, but it is no longer clear how I did it. Mining the change log of the most recent image where it works (I have

Re: [Pharo-project] Underscores question

2009-01-05 Thread Bill Schwab
32610-0254 Email: bsch...@anest.ufl.edu Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029 mrg...@gmail.com 1/5/2009 7:25:25 AM On Sunday 04 January 2009 17:41:21 Bill Schwab wrote: Gwenael, Stef mentioned that you are working on a parser, in part to address problems with $_. At the risk of appearing

Re: [Pharo-project] Fwd: A little question --- merry christmas

2008-12-24 Thread Bill Schwab
Stef, It was not until I re-read this that I took note of just who had all this great insight into computing. I fully agree about the debugging benefits of immutable arguments. The same argument leads me to want to avoid name collisions between temporary and instance variables. Please tell

Re: [Pharo-project] Notifiers

2008-12-22 Thread Bill Schwab
: (352) 392-7029 stephane.duca...@inria.fr 12/22/08 3:15 AM Send the code. Stef On Dec 21, 2008, at 11:44 PM, Bill Schwab wrote: Sounds good. And in that case (OB Tools at the end of the list), I urge serious attention to having a notifier. Learning from history, and all that. Bill

Re: [Pharo-project] Inclusion of OB-Tools inside Pharo

2008-12-22 Thread Bill Schwab
, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Bill Schwab bsch...@anest.ufl.edu wrote: Sounds good. And in that case (OB Tools at the end of the list), I urge serious attention to having a notifier. Learning from history, and all that. Hi Bill, I decided to load OB-Tools (a reimplementation of some

Re: [Pharo-project] Universes and Installer?

2008-12-22 Thread Bill Schwab
It makes a lot of sense to use MC, universes, etc. rather than re-write them; no argument there. Would it help to roll ScriptLoader into Installer? Installer _looks_ to me as though it tries to be a much-needed facade over the various options for sharing code. The problem is complex, so must be

Re: [Pharo-project] Inclusion of OB-Tools inside Pharo

2008-12-22 Thread Bill Schwab
than try to fix it because the benefits were so large and I was too busy/lazy/etc. -david On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Bill Schwab bsch...@anest.ufl.edu wrote: Stef, One nice thing about the new browser is the RB integration. Given my general aversion to having it rewrite my code (showing

Re: [Pharo-project] Universes and Installer?

2008-12-22 Thread Bill Schwab
understand them. Stef On Dec 22, 2008, at 5:09 PM, Bill Schwab wrote: It makes a lot of sense to use MC, universes, etc. rather than re- write them; no argument there. Would it help to roll ScriptLoader into Installer? Installer _looks_ to me as though it tries to be a much-needed facade

Re: [Pharo-project] Notifiers

2008-12-21 Thread Bill Schwab
Lukas, You are correct to question what is Pharo? We cannot hope to ensure that everything anyone ever does with Pharo will work - those kinds of promises are made only during political campaigns :) But, note the recent discussion of package integrity. It should be as easy as possible to

Re: [Pharo-project] Notifiers

2008-12-21 Thread Bill Schwab
[1]) Pharo is the image that will be officially shipped (packaged as a one-click image). Pharo-Core on the other hand will be important for deployment as it has a low memory footprint. Cheers, Adrian [1] http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/Packages On Dec 21, 2008, at 15:46 , Bill Schwab

Re: [Pharo-project] New pharo-dev based on 10196

2008-12-20 Thread Bill Schwab
stephane.duca...@inria.fr 12/20/08 2:59 AM Bill report any problem to load packages and we willcheck what we can do? Do you have something that we can repeat. And indeed we prefer MC as package format. Stef On Dec 20, 2008, at 1:04 AM, Bill Schwab wrote: Damien, Thanks for making the new image

Re: [Pharo-project] New pharo-dev based on 10196

2008-12-20 Thread Bill Schwab
, at 01:04 , Bill Schwab wrote: Damien, Thanks for making the new image. Is there a way to tell the image to display walkbacks instead of going straight into the debugger? The new image seemed a nice excuse to play catch-up, which means getting a few things loaded. Seaside - I recalled

Re: [Pharo-project] Fwd: [squeak-dev] Re: [ANN] ConflictFinder (help needed!)

2008-12-20 Thread Bill Schwab
Stef, This looks great, but I think it underscores something that has bothered me for a while: the various packages should not be prompting on installation. The updated Seaside installation is vastly improved, but it still comes to a dead halt over user-name/password for the configuration

[Pharo-project] Notifiers

2008-12-20 Thread Bill Schwab
Hello all, One change I do not like is that errors bring up a debugger vs. starting with a notifier. Beyond a we fear change g reaction, it can get expensive if things are bad enough to create errors in rapid succession. Is there a preference I can set to get the previous behavior? Bill

Re: [Pharo-project] Notifiers

2008-12-20 Thread Bill Schwab
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Stéphane Ducasse stephane.duca...@inria.fr wrote: From my side this is not something intentional so may be this a preference somewhere. On Dec 20, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Bill Schwab wrote: Hello all, One change I do not like is that errors bring up a debugger

Re: [Pharo-project] Notifiers

2008-12-20 Thread Bill Schwab
, Bill Schwab wrote: Hello all, One change I do not like is that errors bring up a debugger vs. starting with a notifier. Beyond a we fear change g reaction, it can get :) expensive if things are bad enough to create errors in rapid succession. Is there a preference I can set to get

Re: [Pharo-project] Notifiers

2008-12-20 Thread Bill Schwab
Stef, Under ordinary circumstances, it's ok, but OA tried this and then quickly decided it was a bad idea. Imagine a budding recursive chain of errors; the extra load of opening the debugger can prevent a rescue that might be possible given a lightweight notifier. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab,

Re: [Pharo-project] Notifiers

2008-12-20 Thread Bill Schwab
...@gmail.com 12/20/08 4:52 PM So only open one and recognize eecursive UHE and do something clever. Opening an infinite # of any kind of window sucks. -david On Dec 20, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Bill Schwab bsch...@anest.ufl.edu wrote: Stef, Under ordinary circumstances, it's ok, but OA tried

Re: [Pharo-project] Parsing problem

2008-12-19 Thread Bill Schwab
. On Dec 19, 2008, at 4:11 AM, Bill Schwab wrote: Stef, If you a saying that assignment will be :=, I can _easily_ live with that. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: bsch...@anest.ufl.edu Tel

Re: [Pharo-project] focus and moving windows

2008-12-19 Thread Bill Schwab
FWIW, I frequently have had troubles like that with graphical systems that were mixing current cursor position with positions from the events. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: bsch...@anest.ufl.edu

Re: [Pharo-project] New pharo-dev based on 10196

2008-12-19 Thread Bill Schwab
Damien, Thanks for making the new image. Is there a way to tell the image to display walkbacks instead of going straight into the debugger? The new image seemed a nice excuse to play catch-up, which means getting a few things loaded. Seaside - I recalled discussion of it, and quckly stumbled

Re: [Pharo-project] New pharo-dev based on 10196

2008-12-19 Thread Bill Schwab
: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029 keith_hod...@yahoo.co.uk 12/19/2008 9:00:28 PM Bill Schwab wrote: Damien, Thanks for making the new image. Is there a way to tell the image to display walkbacks instead of going straight into the debugger? The new image seemed a nice excuse to play

Re: [Pharo-project] Parsing problem

2008-12-18 Thread Bill Schwab
Stef, FWIW, my biggest priority is to be able to use underscores in class and method names (very useful when talking to the outside world - I don't care if it's ugly, it worksg). Pharo will help me reduce Microsoft's influence over my future, but while one source of underscores goes away, things

Re: [Pharo-project] Parsing problem

2008-12-18 Thread Bill Schwab
+1. Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: bsch...@anest.ufl.edu Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029 reng...@gmail.com 12/18/08 12:34 PM I've discussed with Stephane and may be we can fix all the

Re: [Pharo-project] Parsing problem

2008-12-18 Thread Bill Schwab
...@inria.fr 12/18/08 1:52 PM Gwenael is improving the parser/scanner after if people wants to grab the code this is their problem Our goal is not to end in endless squeaking discussions to build a better system. Stef On Dec 18, 2008, at 7:40 PM, Keith Hodges wrote: Bill Schwab wrote: Stef

Re: [Pharo-project] Polymorph sound theme

2008-12-15 Thread Bill Schwab
Please consider that it's not just your development environment - it is (or probably should be) the framework for my future users' desktop applications. Sounds are a part of life; the default can certainly be null, void and quiet. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida

Re: [Pharo-project] Which VM to run Pharso? (was: New pharo-dev based on 10193)

2008-12-15 Thread Bill Schwab
FWIW, I found that recent Pharo images did not work on XP until I grabbed a recent VM. I was using something quite old (3.7??) and switched to the 3.10 VM and suddenly everthing worked. I have _no_ idea where the cutoff is, nor can I say what the best choice would be. Bill Wilhelm K.

Re: [Pharo-project] {Spam?} Re: Interaction with Java

2008-12-13 Thread Bill Schwab
Norbert, Sounds good. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: bsch...@anest.ufl.edu Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029 norb...@hartl.name 12/12/08 7:10 PM On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 08:57 -0500, Bill

Re: [Pharo-project] Fwd: About default UI

2008-12-13 Thread Bill Schwab
Hello all, Watery 2 is starting to grow on me. My own quirks include a tendency to mess with fonts (I find mono-spaced is best for code, and I use the smallest font that is comfortable for me), and background colors (reducing contrast and hence eye strain). As long as those changes work,

Re: [Pharo-project] Polymorph sound theme

2008-12-13 Thread Bill Schwab
Gary, Some time ago, Object Arts added opening events to Dolphin's tools, and I wrote a simple example that I really like: it plays a random sound clip on opening a debugger. As you said, the clips themselves are an IP nightmare, but it would be a nice thing to be able to do w/o hacking into the

Re: [Pharo-project] {Spam?} Re: Interaction with Java

2008-12-12 Thread Bill Schwab
Norbert, Not to start an argument or anything, where do we disagree? I assume I am a bit more jaded about the usefulness of _most_ canned components, but freely admit that the odd thing here or there can be a life saver. The need for C is quite obvious. It is the best accepted macro assembler

Re: [Pharo-project] Interaction with Java

2008-12-11 Thread Bill Schwab
Alexandre, C has a fairly unique place among languages. We could debate how far that goes and the reasons for it, but a few that come to mind are: it arrived a long time ago; it was widely adopted; *nix lives by it. Pharo has to speak it. In most situations where I have used Dolphin's COM

Re: [Pharo-project] Impressed, overwhelmed, and a little confused

2008-12-10 Thread Bill Schwab
Damien, I have a quick question for you as a scripting fan: can you recommend a good example to follow? It would not have to be much; I am simply trying to figure out how I am going to manage code. It could be as simple as look at the build Pharo from scratch link - whatever you think gives a

Re: [Pharo-project] ODBC bugs

2008-12-10 Thread Bill Schwab
This sounds familiar on a couple of levels. In short, the ODBC package should probably define #printSqlOn: and/or #sqlString rather than altering the way everything else prints a time stamp. It even gets worse, because the DBMS sometimes affects what has to be written. Thanks for complaining

Re: [Pharo-project] Impressed, overwhelmed, and a little confused

2008-12-03 Thread Bill Schwab
PROTECTED] 12/03/08 4:12 AM On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Bill Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As Pharo 1.0 takes shape, what is the plan for getting packages loaded the way each of us wants? Is Installer the preferred route? Would I be expected to script it (I find myself hoping so - load

[Pharo-project] Impressed, overwhelmed, and a little confused

2008-12-02 Thread Bill Schwab
Hello all, I grabbed 10183, hacked it into a one-click image on my Ubuntu box at home, and found the Polymorph is indeed in the image. Frankly, I suspect I might have missed it once before, possibly mistaking the watery theme for the default look. It's great to see it included. As Pharo 1.0

Re: [Pharo-project] HostWindows rewrite

2008-11-26 Thread Bill Schwab
/24 Bill Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I agree: it would be useful to control host windows in some way, whether as described below, or via Wx, etc. The native windows/controls have their uses, though they are not (IMHO) the panacea that many believe them to be. So, it would be very nice to be able

Re: [Pharo-project] HostWindows rewrite

2008-11-24 Thread Bill Schwab
I agree: it would be useful to control host windows in some way, whether as described below, or via Wx, etc. The native windows/controls have their uses, though they are not (IMHO) the panacea that many believe them to be. So, it would be very nice to be able to mix native and emulated GUI

Re: [Pharo-project] Re: Pharo 1.0 release plan

2008-11-03 Thread Bill Schwab
Francois, Welcome to the list! +1 on the naming scheme. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/03/08 9:56 AM During

Re: [Pharo-project] serial port support?

2008-10-30 Thread Bill Schwab
Lukas, all, Serial ports are a must for me. Whether or not that means they need to be in the base is another question; I vote yes. USB would be of more use if the consortium would spend less time telling us what they are not, and focus on telling us what they are and how to do what we want.

Re: [Pharo-project] Merging one-click and pharo-dev

2008-10-23 Thread Bill Schwab
Damien, Is the Linux VM dated? It did not prompt to save before quitting. IIRC, an earlier one-click had that feature. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (352) 273-6785

Re: [Pharo-project] Merging one-click and pharo-dev

2008-10-23 Thread Bill Schwab
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Bill Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the Linux VM dated? It did not prompt to save before quitting. IIRC, an earlier one-click had that feature. I didn't change anything from Marcus' one-click from http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/Downloads?tm=2

[Pharo-project] One click feature list request/question

2008-10-15 Thread Bill Schwab
Hello all, Please feel free to say that's going in the wrong direction, but it might be nice to have FFI, or at least the plugins, lurking in the one-click file structure. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL

Re: [Pharo-project] Monticello: an idealist question

2008-10-09 Thread Bill Schwab
-0400, Bill Schwab wrote: Colin, Among many useful things in Dolphin is an ability to assign multiple categories to any given method; Squeak and Pharo allow only one category, and it promptly gets chewed up by PackageInfo. Multiple categories would be a nice addition to Squeak and Pharo

Re: [Pharo-project] Monticello: an idealist question

2008-10-09 Thread Bill Schwab
Dolphin has been running on Wine for a while, so get a community edition copy and give it a try. Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029 [EMAIL

[Pharo-project] Two problems yesterday

2008-10-08 Thread Bill Schwab
Hello all, After a few days of getting mostly nothing from an evolving Seaside+Apache setup, I got it running. A lot suddenly happened on two machines, and there is no telling what I might have done to cause trouble on my own. Anyway, two things deserve mention. Sorry to throw these at you,

Re: [Pharo-project] Seaside and Apache

2008-10-07 Thread Bill Schwab
Sorry gang, I meant to send this to the seaside list. Your opinions are welcome too! Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Pharo-project] about ifEmptyOrNil:

2008-10-06 Thread Bill Schwab
in frameworks, where you may get nil instead of an empty collection passed to you. -david On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Bill Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stef, I suspect your mood is appropriate. Most likely, it masks a failure to initialize something to a collection. Unless

Re: [Pharo-project] About reusing tests via traits

2008-10-06 Thread Bill Schwab
but this is quite cool. Check TEmptyTest. It is applied to OrderedCollection, Basg, Set, Array, Interval (and could be to others too). Yesterday I got a really nice presentation of Miro by alain plantec and he is also using traits. Stef On Oct 6, 2008, at 3:35 AM, Bill Schwab wrote: Stef

Re: [Pharo-project] About reusing tests via traits

2008-10-06 Thread Bill Schwab
to conduct such experiment. We are therefore left to our intuition that using traits is better than not using them. But a large crowd (and not only in the research community) has the same intuition. Cheers, Alexandre On 6 Oct 2008, at 16:07, Bill Schwab wrote: Stef, Alexandre, I will grant

Re: [Pharo-project] Re: about ifEmptyOrNil:

2008-10-06 Thread Bill Schwab
Strings, eh??? Now this makes more sense. I have defined some methods named #isNonTrivial that I use in some defensive situations (ok, a few are quite simly cowardlyg), all the way up to decisions about how to represent chunks of medical records. Most senders are of the latter type.

Re: [Pharo-project] about ifEmptyOrNil:

2008-10-05 Thread Bill Schwab
Stef, I suspect your mood is appropriate. Most likely, it masks a failure to initialize something to a collection. Unless there is a performance argument (e.g. many are created, few are actually used, or something like that??), then it probably should go. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.

Re: [Pharo-project] About reusing tests via traits

2008-10-05 Thread Bill Schwab
Stef, Dumb question: are traits essential to it, or simply a way of achieving it? Just curious, as I am still trying to put traits in perspective. They strike me (so far, right or wrong) as a form of multiple inheritance, which I have assumed (right or wrong) is often not needed with clever

[Pharo-project] Performance observation

2008-10-04 Thread Bill Schwab
Hello all, As part of some catch-up work from a couple of weeks ago, I'm using my 1.8 GHz/500MB Ubuntu box and a remote desktop client to do some configuration on a win2k3 VM running on a blade server on campus. By many standards, I am using a pig-slow machine jumping through lots of hoops to

Re: [Pharo-project] [updates] 10083

2008-10-01 Thread Bill Schwab
I will confess to being in a similar situation. I have been grabbing new images and looking at them, but am hoping to wait for the integration before moving my code from my very old (in Pharo time) image to a more recent one. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of

Re: [Pharo-project] SIF working - needs a small fix

2008-10-01 Thread Bill Schwab
of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/1/2008 3:50 PM Bill Schwab writes: Hello, I would like to tell you all the incredible things I did to get SIF going - truth is, it loaded and just

Re: [Pharo-project] How to integrate Kernel-Extensions

2008-10-01 Thread Bill Schwab
Damien, Stef, I would argue for #trimBlanks (very useful), #trimLineBreak (I do not recall needing this one, but clearl you do, so go for it), and keeping #withoutTrailing: as a separate entry point; write the others in terms of it. IIRC, #trimBlanks probably should trim leading as well as

[Pharo-project] Space tally

2008-10-01 Thread Bill Schwab
Adrian, I ran the space tally, and have found, even after WARegistry clearAllHandlers. Smalltalk garbageCollect. that there are still some Seaside entrails present in the image. In particular, there are 11 instances of WAApplication, and 4 instances of WADispatcher. There are

[Pharo-project] Cleanup - a concern

2008-10-01 Thread Bill Schwab
I started Smalltalk on an educational discount copy of V-DOS, and then launched at a discounted copy of V-Win. The latter was particularly prone to crashing during a save-and-exit. To this day, I save, and then exit w/o saving. I can't get past it :) Humor aside, I would prefer to have a way

[Pharo-project] OSProcess under Pharo

2008-09-30 Thread Bill Schwab
Before doing something I might regret, I wanted to check with you about installing OSProcess, VMMaker(?), FFI, etc. Do you have anything to say try it and report any problems? Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL

[Pharo-project] SIF working - needs a small fix

2008-09-30 Thread Bill Schwab
Hello, I would like to tell you all the incredible things I did to get SIF going - truth is, it loaded and just worked. The only gripe I have is that the Pharo browsers are displaying a large number of LF or other non-printable characters as boxes in the Pharo browsers. I have seen Squeak do

Re: [Pharo-project] OSProcess under Pharo

2008-09-30 Thread Bill Schwab
PROTECTED] 9/30/2008 2:12 PM Bill Schwab writes: Before doing something I might regret, I wanted to check with you about installing OSProcess, VMMaker(?), FFI, etc. Do you have anything to say try it and report any problems? I load OSProcess and FFI from universes, it works loading

[Pharo-project] On Win32 metrics

2008-09-30 Thread Bill Schwab
Hello all, I am not sure what the system directory means to a cross-platform tool, but either my knowledge of Squeak/Pharo or its reporting about the host were a little lacking today. Case in point: win2k uses win32\system32, xp uses windows\system32, but I did not find a clear way to make the

Re: [Pharo-project] OB's icon support improved

2008-09-29 Thread Bill Schwab
I apologize for not paying more attention to this thread. Visual feedback in the browser is very much appreciated, and you seem to be doing a very nice job! Had I been paying attention, I'd have said things like the following: (1) Red is probably not the best choice to have lurking on the

Re: [Pharo-project] Fwd: [Seaside-dev] preliminary Seaside2.9alphauniverse

2008-09-28 Thread Bill Schwab
Damien, Sounds good. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/28/08 9:16 AM On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Bill Schwab

Re: [Pharo-project] About Flap

2008-09-27 Thread Bill Schwab
related to an open- sourceSmalltalk pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 8:46 PM Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] About Flap 2008/9/24 Marcus Denker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 24.09.2008, at 20:14, Bill Schwab wrote: Lukas, That's fine if my hands

Re: [Pharo-project] Fwd: [Seaside-dev] preliminary Seaside 2.9 alphauniverse

2008-09-27 Thread Bill Schwab
Damien, Stef, I _think_ what I would want for a starting point is something like Damien's web image, followed by a script that gets the latest of a few things, specific versions of others, and then loads a bunch of .cs or other files for my code. Damien, I suspect you put a lot of work into

[Pharo-project] Compression question

2008-09-27 Thread Bill Schwab
I am working on adapting some basic tools of mine to Pharo, and ran into a trick that use often: specifically, I use ZLib and Dolphin's ability to package globals to store compressed text for scripts, empty document files, etc. Then a small wrapper method uses ZLib to uncompress the content of

[Pharo-project] Interesting news

2008-09-26 Thread Bill Schwab
Hello all, Have a look at: http://www.object-arts.com/content/news/excitingNews.html Object Arts and Lesser Software are collaborating on a new version of Dolphin. They are still sticking to the Windows-only angle, which I find disappointing. However, even if they hold to that, we are

Re: [Pharo-project] About Flap

2008-09-24 Thread Bill Schwab
Now THAT'S a reason for us to remove them!!! :) Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/24/08 9:07 AM On Wed, Sep 24, 2008

Re: [Pharo-project] About Flap

2008-09-24 Thread Bill Schwab
Lukas, That's fine if my hands are on the keyboard, but if I have one on the mouse (common when browsing), then (in Dolphin at least), I end up either right clicking on a class in an open browser, or hitting a toolbar button. For the more obscure tools, the shell menus (Tools) do the trick.

Re: [Pharo-project] Re: Re: Re: Re: [ANN] Demo with both Truetype+Polymorph

2008-09-24 Thread Bill Schwab
It includes a Linux VM with the shutdown prompt fix - MUCH appreciated, not to mention the packages that were the point of demo :) Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (352)

Re: [Pharo-project] Product Brand Pharo

2008-09-23 Thread Bill Schwab
Markus, Based on the discussion, I started noting how long it takes my images to load; a splash screen might be in order; I also fear that by the time VM loads and the GUI is able to draw itself, it is no longer needed :( Still, I'd add it to the milestones, but probably late in the process.

Re: [Pharo-project] Halt once; workspace(?) menu

2008-09-23 Thread Bill Schwab
Stef, The class can be more flexible than what is in Pharo, and FWIW, is not built into the system. Since it does not need to be built-in, that's a plus in my thinking. Not much of a difference, I must admit. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology

Re: [Pharo-project] First pharo-dev with limited package set

2008-09-23 Thread Bill Schwab
Ok, but only if you allow a choice of which one to use. I am a HUGE fan of Shout, but I generally do not want a workspace trying to colorize my notes to myself. If I end up with enough code that the syntax is not clear, it probably belongs in a class and in a package or change set - at least

Re: [Pharo-project] Re: [ANN] Demo with both Truetype + Polymorph

2008-09-22 Thread Bill Schwab
I appeared to get a valid download, but something isn't right. Is the idea to download, unzip (MS seems to make this flakier with every update???), and then launch Pharo.exe? Are there separate image and change files? I do not see them, just a LOT of folders/files that are giving my Java

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