Re: [Newbies] Newbieology

2006-07-02 Thread John Kershaw
On 02/07/06, Ron Teitelbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How far did you get writing your own Etoy Tamagotchi's? For my own 'stay ahead of the kids' learning I modelled my own fish tank, based on my experiences of keeping fish for all of two months. What I've found (in real life) is that

[Newbies] CamelCase vs. Infix

2006-07-02 Thread Blake
On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 21:33:04 -0700, itsme213 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I miss my Ruby macros (1st day in Squeak and I love it ... dislike the camelCase tho'). Would this be the correct way to go about it? Not to hijack, but this is the second time I've run across the term camelCase in the

Re: [Newbies] CamelCase vs. Infix

2006-07-02 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 02.07.2006 um 11:03 schrieb Blake: On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 21:33:04 -0700, itsme213 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I miss my Ruby macros (1st day in Squeak and I love it ... dislike the camelCase tho'). Would this be the correct way to go about it? Not to hijack, but this is the second time

Re: [Newbies] Plain file editing

2006-07-02 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 02.07.2006 um 00:42 schrieb itsme213: Is there an easy way, within squeak itself, to open a text editor on an entire class and simply edit the file and save the entire file (equivalently, file-in the string-buffer). I find I am quicker with this than all the mousing around, specially

RE: [Newbies] variableWordSubclass:

2006-07-02 Thread Joaquin Sitte
Many thanks to all who replied with advice. Here is an update on the matter for those interested. DynamicVariable is a subclass (variableWordSubclass) of FloatArray. FloatArray new: 2 works! Therefore because DynamicVariable is a subclass of FloatArray DynamicVariable new: 2 should work, but

Re: [Newbies] Newbieology

2006-07-02 Thread cdrick
Uhmm. To me, there are several kinds of newbie and my newbiness is more on computer science in general as I start to know squeak a bit. That's why I find more approriate to post general questions (like XML processing) here instead of the dev list where subjects are very sharp and where people will

Re: [Newbies] SqueakMap, Monticello

2006-07-02 Thread Damien Cassou
itsme213 wrote: I have tried to install some packages from SqueakMap and get errors about some pre-requisite dependencies. Is there a loader / packager that is aware of such dependencies and will automatically find and install them? No ! Most of the time, read the comment associated to the

Re: [Newbies] Plain file editing

2006-07-02 Thread itsme213
The class browser is a view onto the live class object, even though it appears to be a categorizing text editor. It's not. This is starting to sink in :-) Quite a nice change, and not too difficult, except for a wide-scale re-training of muscle memory on keyboard shortcuts.

Re: [Newbies] getters and setters ; refactoring tools

2006-07-02 Thread Giovanni Corriga
Il giorno sab, 01/07/2006 alle 17.34 -0500, itsme213 ha scritto: How can I easily create getters/setters for my instanceu variables? And where can I find refactoring tools? The Squeak Map has the latest versions of the Refactoring Browser 8RB). Install it from the Squeak Map Package Loader.

RE: [Newbies] Newbieology

2006-07-02 Thread Ron Teitelbaum
John, Wow, it sounds like what you are doing is very creative and a whole lot of fun. And it sounds like you are having a lot of success modeling the world the way you see it. This to me is the biggest step in learning object oriented programming. You are still writing scripts, but there is a

Re: [Newbies] Plain file editing

2006-07-02 Thread Kyle Hamilton
You have just described the problems with WebDAV... but the WebDAV group found a way to deal with the limitations. Which even works well with revision management systems. (There is a DAV server available in SqueakMap, though I haven't yet checked to see if it can handle sending the entire