Re: [Newbies] Re: I've never written a line of code, but want to be a programmer!

2011-04-06 Thread Tim Johnson
On Apr 5, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Amir Ansari wrote: I've been looking for this issue of Byte for a long time - are there any scans online? It's certainly a seminal issue! I've found a few of the articles available individually on the interwebs, if I recall correctly. But I was lucky enough to

Re: [Newbies] Randomness

2011-04-06 Thread michael rice
So it was a problem? The old behavior was: if I saved a project and quit the image without saving it, the next time I bought up the image and loaded the project I would get the same stream of random numbers. What is the new behavior? Michael --- On Wed, 4/6/11, David T. Lewis

Re: [Newbies] Randomness

2011-04-06 Thread David T. Lewis
The new behavior should be the same as what you would get using an Etoys image rather than a Squeak trunk image. So if the scenario that you describe works properly in an Etoys image, it should now also work properly in an updated Squeak trunk image. There is an instance of Random (in other words

[Newbies] Can I make a window outside of the world?

2011-04-06 Thread Rick H .
Hi all. I'd like to make an operating system window, that can go outside of the world. I found a nice Sample Image Viewer by Michael Davies. It uses a SystemWindow, but it also is constrained to be within the Squeak box. Do you understand what I am thinking of? Is it possible?