Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
welcome peter
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
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.
I thought these problems might be due to me having the standard image instead
of the Pharo by Example image. So I downloaded that image but when I call
Pharo on that image:
$ ./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.
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.
The new book focuses on different issues than the old book. It would be
sad to let the old book languish entirely and end up with a poor first
impression for newcomers, so I am willing to participate in updating it
to Pharo 1.4. I am getting a lot from Pharo and this is something I can
contribute. I think it fair the main developers continue with
implementing and documenting the advanced features, while the community
maintains the more established things. A quick scan pegs this effort at
updating about 170 images, plus hopefully a minimal amount of text. How
would I proceed with this?
cheers -ben
Did you have a look at the pharocast because this is also a good way to learn.
Stef
Thanks
Peter
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Peter Bradley
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