Re: [Newbies] Why is the UI so blurry on Linux?

2008-08-15 Thread Felix Dorner
I posted a screenshot here: http://image-fast.com/image/75d95183/linux.png The shot was taken of Squeak3.10-7159-basic.image running on Squeak3.10beta of 22 July 2007 [latest update: #7159] I guess a lot of people would say it looks okay, but I'd like it to look better/cleaner. Its

Re: [Newbies] Windows

2008-08-15 Thread Roger Thedog
Claus Kick wrote: If you are on Windows or Linux, you could also try VisualAge from Instantiations. Or Dolphin Smalltalk from Object-Arts, if you are on Windows. Claus I played around with Visualage when I was looking at Smalltalk the first time around. I was quite shocked to see

Re: [Newbies] Windows

2008-08-15 Thread David Mitchell
$7K sounds about right. VW with Envy was in that range as well. As was Gemstone. I bet their commercial systems for big customers are still expensive. That's why I was so excited when Squeak came out as it was the first open-source Smalltalk that felt like Smalltalk. On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at

Re: [Newbies] Why is the UI so blurry on Linux?

2008-08-15 Thread David Mitchell
I run on Linux and Windows regularly. There is no difference in how fonts are rendered in a stock Squeak. My screen looks exactly like yours. The difference in the crispness is driven by the different fonts. Some of the stock fonts are blurry. You can install new fonts or pick a different font

[Newbies] Is there anything within Seaside that helps to POST data to another website?

2008-08-15 Thread Andy Burnett
I want to build a very simple site (as a learning exercise), that displays a form, captures that data, modifies it slightly (on the Squeak server) and then saves it to a totally different web server - just by using a REST call. On the face of it, it seems as though I need to use HttpSocket to do

Re: [Newbies] Downloading the Squeak By Example Sources from the SVN reposotory

2008-08-15 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi Steve, I was pretty busy with a lot of things but this answer helps me a lot. I'm now using this for the translation. I would use mercurial or any decentralized control version system, instead of SVN and TeXmacs instead of LaTeX for the spanish version (because of its graphical and easy to