El 05/05/12 21:12, Stéphane Ducasse escribió:
welcome peter
Thank you
I'm trying to work my way through the Pharo by example book on my Ubuntu 12.04
LTS box. Unfortunately, things in the book don't look like they do on my
setup. For example, I can't work out what the key combination is to get the
'Morphic Halo'. I can get it from a menu, but not from a key press combination.
on mac it is
option + cmd + shift
and you click on the morph
Doesn't help a lot when you're not on a Mac :-) But it's not
insuperable since I can get to it via the menus. I did try all the
combinations I could think of, though (various combinations of [Shift],
[Ctrl], [Alt], [Meta] and left and right clicks). Nothing seemed to
work on Ubuntu 12, I'm afraid.
Also, calling:
BouncingAtomsMorph new openInWorld
doesn't work. I just get an error message saying that there is no such object.
The BouncingAtomsMorph is not loaded in the new images.
OK. Well. As long as it doesn't become crucial to the business of
learning how to use SmallTalk and Pharo, I guess I can ignore the
problem. For now, at least.
...
$ ./pharo ../Resources/PBE.image
I just get a segmentation fault.
The image of the book is an old one and you should get (may be I'm wrong) an
old vm for example it should work on a Squeak3.9 VM.
Again, I guess as long as it's not crucial, I can just carry on.
I'm a complete newbie (but an experienced programmer in a variety of OO and
other languages), so if anyone could shed any light on this, I'd be very
grateful.
Let us know if you have any other problems. This is try true that such problems
are annoying but we do not have the resources to
write a new book, develop pharo and maintain the old book.
I sympathise with that, although it can be a bit self defeating in that
if the docs aren't good and up-to-date it can put people off... Also,
of course, the longer you leave things the worse it gets. The revision
job just becomes bigger and bigger.
Did you have a look at the pharocast because this is also a good way to learn.
I'll take a look. Thanks.
Cheers
Peter
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*Peter Bradley*
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