On 15.12.2009, at 16:53, Tim Rowe wrote: > > 2009/12/15 Alex Schenkman <a...@schenkman.info>: >> I'm sorry Tim, but I don't understand your question. >> Could you rephrase it please? > > Ok. I'm a complete newcomer to Squeak, and indeed to Smalltalk, > although I am an experienced programmer, having worked by way through > FORTRAN, Pascal, C, C++, C#, Ada an Python in my time. > > I'm trying to learn Squeak on Windows XP, working my way through > Squeak By Example (http://squeakbyexample.org//SBE.pdf) > > A fairly early exercise is to open a workspace window and a transcript > window, and, in the workspace window, to type > Transcript show: 'hello world'; cr. > Then highlight it, yellow-click on it (right-click on my system), and > select "do it (d)". > > That worked fine. > > However, after doing some of the further exercises in the book I'm > again asked to select some text in the workspace window and select "do > it (d)". Now, though, the "do it (d)" menu option doesn't appear when > I yellow (right) click, just the options I showed in my original > posting. In case it was something to do with what I had in the > workspace window, I went back to the original excercise that had > previously worked. I typed > Transcript show: 'hello world'; cr. > Then highlighted it, yellow-clicked on it (right-click on my system), > and sure enough, "do it (d)" no longer appeared on that menu either. I > no longer seem to be able to execute anything at all from a workspace > window (which seems rather limiting, to say the least!) >
Indeed. Does the usual shortcut still work (Cmd-p on Mac, Alt-p on PCs)? The menu isn't really used in daily work, just at the very beginning. If all else fails (and noviceMode is not to blame), please download a fresh version. The changes you make in an image are permanent, which is powerful and dangerous at the same time. - Bert - _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
