Re: [Newbies] Drawing with Morphic Transforms

and take a look at a few of the methods to see if I can assemble a fix for them if need be. If you have any other suggestions for tasks that I could do to help out the vector graphics situation in squeak I would be all ears. Thanks again for your help, Jeff G

[Newbies] Drawing with Morphic Transforms

to allow me to get my drawing up and fully transformed would be greatly appreciated as I would like to work on a simple asteroids game after this, and I will be using transforms of basic shapes extensively as they travel around the screen. Thanks for your help, Jeff G

Re: [Newbies] Immutable environments in blocks?

Thanks a ton Bert, I really appreciate your help. On 2011-05-26 5:31 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 25.05.2011, at 18:47, Jeff G wrote: Hi everyone, My question is about the semantics of b... You cannot assign into arguments anymore (in 1999, you could). So you need

[Newbies] Immutable environments in blocks?

the init value in the outer environment. How would I go about altering the outer environment from inside a block if I desired to do so? Thanks for all your help, Jeff G. ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http

[Newbies] Creating a System Window containing a Morph and some buttons

colors and layouts, and being resized with the splitters would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much for your time, Jeff G! ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

[Newbies] Using Futures in a thread other than the Morphic Thread

, or is dispatching futures to a different thread something that is being worked on for a future squeak release? Thanks for your help, Jeff G ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Newbies] Using Futures in a thread other than the Morphic Thread

Thanks a ton Bert, that clears things up quite a bit. I guess I was getting too wrapped up in considering Futures and Promises as being bound together rather than concepts I could use separately. ___ Beginners mailing list

[Newbies] A question about returning values from a block

and not the explicit? Is there a best practice for dealing with block closures in smalltalk, such that we should only be using implicit returns? Thanks for your help, Jeff G. ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http

Re: [Newbies] Re: Anti-aliasing canvas graphics

of squeak and I found the optimization and work around you mentioned. It takes some time to get used to have all the source available I guess! Thanks for your help, Jeff G. ___ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http

[Newbies] Anti-aliasing canvas graphics

Hopefully this isn't double posted, I sent it in yesterday, but I wasn't a list member and it was pending approval. I figured I should join the list anyway, so without further ado here is my question. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jeff Gonis jgon.in.can...@gmail.com Date: Mon

[Newbies] Re: Making a wonderland actor respond to keystrokes, not mouseclicks? (was: Beginners questions)

object, but how do I use it? It sounds like an object that actually is a method, but what object to send it to?Thanks again to Matthias and anyone else who tries to help me solve this. :)Jeff --- On Tue 11/07, Matthias Berth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:From: Matthias Berth [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Newbies] Beginners questions

I've noticed on the list my mailings don't seem to parse correctly. I don't know why that is, but I can't blame you for not being tempted to wade through them. I wouldn't be either. If anyone can tall me how to solve this, I'd appreciate it.Thanks,Jeff --- On Wed 11/08, lanas [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Newbies] RE: KeyPress On World of Squeak Wonderland (was: Disappointed)

(was: Disappointed)Hi Jeff, Welcome to the beginners list! I appreciate the fact that you aresticking with the problem. That in my opinion is the best way to learn. Ididn’t answer your question because I do not feel that I am an expert inWonderland. If the question was something like how can I map a key

[Newbies] Disappointed

I'm pretty disappointed with this list at the moment. My last post, beginners questions talked about how beginners often don't get their questions answered and pointed out that often when the experts see that an answer, ANY answer, was given they then assume the question was answered, so they