Re: [Newbies] Help (and where to find it) ?

[rudolf-Rednose]

Hello all,

besides that there should be some references to documentation within  
the package you download or on the website where you download from, the 
squeakcomunity  is always helpful. That seems (to me) the general 
approach :)


Ned Konz had written some documentation about his package (Thank You).
It's a Project on BobsSuperSwiki about 500kb. You can get it for example 
with a Squeak3.6 image,

open a filelist,
in the filter-pane (the one with '*' in it) type Connect*,
in the left pane scroll down to Bobs SuperSwiki and klick on it (you 
need a Internetconnection),

the right pane will be populated with the filtered projects,
chose ConnectorsMS-nk.013.pr and load it in.
You will get this project and within it you have an interactive 
documentation called Welcome To Connectors!


Or if you have a fast Internetconnection you can download (46mb)
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/Web/Demoes/ 
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/%7Educasse/Web/Demoes/April02Demo.zipA 
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/%7Educasse/Web/Demoes/April02Demo.zippril02Demo.zip 
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/%7Educasse/Web/Demoes/April02Demo.zip
it's an image with a presentation of many many squeak-projects (many are 
just slides, but Welcome To Connectors! is a real project so you can 
interact with it). Enter the project Demo Space, in the upper right 
corner enter Connectors Demo.


If you find newer or better documentation, or if you create some 
yourself, then it might be a good idea to put it on the swiki.


Cheers Rudolf



Brad Fuller schrieb:

Jerry Muelver wrote:
  

lanas wrote:


Hi folks,

  Where is help ?

  After years of Linux use and work, I've developed an habit of always
looking at the same place for help files, even for newly-installed
packages.  Be it the man page, be it the info page, be it the doc/
subdirectory of the source package.

  Now, how does this go with Squeak ?
...
 Is there a
generalized approach to where to find such info in Squeak ?

Cheers,
Al
  

Good point, Al. I don't doubt that there are some excellent
step-by-step How to program in Squeak tutorials out there...
somewhere. But they are not readily accessible, at least not by me. I
can't find a useful list of such tutorials, even, so I really haven't
been able to get a good start. I program in Perl, JavaScript, several
BASICs, Pascal, even (10 or 12 years ago) Smalltalk. But Squeak is
impenetrable for the beginner.

Most helpful would be a steering guide -- Start with this tutorial,
then do this one, and then this... -- with a brief abstract of the
instructional objectives for each segment.


Documentation could always be better, but there are quite a lot of info
out there to help. In addition, the Squeak documentation team is putting
together tutorials and assembling docs and helpful hints that are spread
around the ether.
Here are some links to get you started. These, in turn, will provide
additional links for your reference:

http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2983
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/377
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/FreeBooks.html
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5871
http://astares.smallscript.org/DIGITALIS/englisch/sqk/sqk2.htm
___
Beginners mailing list
Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners


  


___
Beginners mailing list
Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

Re: [Newbies] Help (and where to find it) ?

[rudolf-Rednose]

The Welcome To Connectors! project by Ned Konz is now on the swiki.
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/uploads/1773/ConnectorsMS-nk.pr

Cheers Rudolf
___
Beginners mailing list
Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

Re: [Newbies] window collapse and remain on world?

[rudolf-Rednose]

Ken G. Brown schrieb:
 Seems to me it used to be that when you clicked on the little circle at the 
 right on the top bar of an open window, the window would collapse to a small 
 icon on the World showing the window title, usually at the upper left 
 somewhere. Now in sq3.10.2-7179dev08.11.1 it appears this has been replaced 
 by the window collapsing to the task bar at the bottom. I'm not sure at what 
 pint this started working this way.
 
 Is there any way to be able to selectively decide whether you want the window 
 to collapse and remain visible on the world, collapse to the task bar, or 
 perhaps both?
 

In preference browser search for taskbar, set showWorldTaskbar to not enabled.
Results in taskbar gone and collapsed windows remain on world.
(maybe see also preference collapseWindowsInPlace for not putting the icon to
upper left somewhere)

-- Rudolf

 Thx,
 Ken G. Brown
 ___
 Beginners mailing list
 Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org
 http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
 

___
Beginners mailing list
Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

Aw: [Newbies] remove allInstances?

[Rudolf Rednose]

Caution: lowskilled hobbyist
 
anyway:
 
Hi Joseph,
Smalltalk garbageCollect does that automatically for you
BUT
it removes only objects that are not in connection with other objects.
 
So you have to cut loose all connections from other objects to your Book 
instances.
 
Maybe you have variables within a workspace pointing to some Book instances.
Or a list object with references to all of your books. (How do you get to your 
books?)
 
Even an inspector, explorer or debugger pointing to a Book instance keeps the 
garbagecollector from removing them.
 
Hope that helps a little

Rudolf
 
-- 
 
 

Gesendet: Freitag, 23. September 2016 um 07:40 Uhr
Von: "Joseph Alotta" 
An: beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org
Betreff: [Newbies] remove allInstances?
Greetings,

The main program I am working on now is called Books.

If I evaluate

Books allInstances => anOrderedCollection( aBook aBook aBook )

How do I set them all equal to nil like

Books removeAllInstances.

Books allInstances => anOrderedCollection().


Sincerely,

Joseph.


___
Beginners mailing list
Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
___
Beginners mailing list
Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners