I sent Matthias an email already thanking him for his assistance but I wanted to email the list too, so that people reading here wouldn't think that telling me how to make the copter turn when I click on it actually answered my question. What I'm really trying to do is make it reply to the arrow
Hi Jeff,sorry, in the enthusiasm over having found out something, I totally forgot that you were asking about reactions to key strokes, not mouse clicks :-)Let me give you my 2 cents about your frustrations. Again, I'm just trying to help, so please don't take it personally.
- Ask early. I would
Hello,
I understand the situation from your point of view: you post a
question, get an answer which does not exactly solve your problem,
and get no more answers after that). It happened to me in the past as
well, on other mailinglists.
I see two solutions to overcome this problem in the
Also, in particular when posting over in the experts list (squeak-
dev), take this document to heart:
http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
- Bert -
Am 08.11.2006 um 11:17 schrieb Roel Wuyts:
Hello,
I understand the situation from your point of view: you post a
question,
I suppose this is more of a pie in the sky type question, but with the
changes coming to the Java virtual machine in version 7, where the jvm
itself provides a more message oriented opcode, has any consideration
gone into perhaps porting squeak to run on the jvm?
I'm aware of talks2 but it seems
Hi Jeff,
Welcome to the beginners list!
I appreciate the fact that you are
sticking with the problem. That in my opinion is the best way to learn. I
didnt answer your question because I do not feel that I am an expert in
Wonderland. If the question was something like how can I map a
Hi Michael,
There are some really talented people doing some of this now. See:
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2006-September/108634
.html
But what is even more exciting to me is the Strongtalk VM. The guys that
wrote the Java VM first wrote Strongtalk. Sun shelved
Hi Mike,
if by more message oriented opcode you mean Gilad Bracha's Invokedynamic
opcode
- http://www.google.com/search?q=jvm+Invokedynamic
this is not sufficient for full Smalltalk/Squeak. Though it may be
sufficient for scripting languages (languages in which, usually, types are
Sweet. I've heard of Strongtalk, don't know much about it, but great.
But in my humble opinion, if running on the jvm will allow people to
use the java libs and allow plugins written in java(thus lowering
the barrier of entry for people like me, since we'd no longer have to
rebuild the whole
Hi Mike,
On 11/8/06, Michael Kohout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, this is what I was referring to. Hotswapping is sort of there
for the jvm. When I use Eclipse, it tries to hotswap. Sometimes it
fails. Sometimes it doesn't.
the HotSwap features of the JVM are fairly constrained when
Hi Mike,
on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:13:17 +0100, you wrote:
Yes, this is what I was referring to. Hotswapping is sort of there
for the jvm. When I use Eclipse, it tries to hotswap. Sometimes it
fails. Sometimes it doesn't. But, referring the criteria in my reply
to Ron's email, would loosing
Thanks Klaus. Sodoes #become change the address of what 'after'
points to, so these two references now point to the same location in
memory, or does it clone what 'before' references and point 'after' to
it?
Or does it do something more complex?
On 11/8/06, Klaus D. Witzel [EMAIL
On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:07:40 +0100, Michael Kohout wrote:
Thanks Klaus. Sodoes #become change the address of what 'after'
points to,
Yes, and vice versa, simultaneously.
so these two references now point to the same location in
memory,
No, but there is a variant of #become: which can
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]
Hi Jeff,
this is because you post in the HTML format, in which your messages
appears quite nice
-
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.beginners/1368
But all these mailing lists are run in plain text mode. So perhaps you
switch your mail client to plain text
Thanks Ron,There's some good info. in there. Unfortunately, scene doesn't have respondWith: to: method, but I might be able to find a workaround. One method I was trying to use in the past was to create a script from tiles, and have that script always ticking and just send the helicopter the
On Nov 8, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
Hi Mike,
on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:13:17 +0100, you wrote:
Yes, this is what I was referring to. Hotswapping is sort of there
for the jvm. When I use Eclipse, it tries to hotswap. Sometimes it
fails. Sometimes it doesn't. But, referring
Jeff wrote:
Hello group!
I'm hoping that this beginners list is a good place for a beginner to
get answers to... well, beginner's questions. And so, with that in mind,
I'll ask a few questions. But first, experience has taught me that I
should be a little more clear in what I'm looking for
Il giorno mer, 08/11/2006 alle 19.30 +0100, Klaus D. Witzel ha scritto:
Hi Jeff,
this is because you post in the HTML format, in which your messages
appears quite nice
-
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.beginners/1368
But all these mailing lists are run
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