Blox Tcl/Tk GUI

2024-03-04 Thread John Howard
smalltalk-3.2.91/packages/blox/tk/BloxTK.c Anyone here use the Blox -based class browser instead of the Gtk -based browser? I use an AMD64 PC with Debian bullseye from Raspberry Pi. (I have been using PrtHier.st as a Textual User Interface class hierarchy “browser”. Led me to consider an

GLUT

2024-03-02 Thread John Howard
Hello. Recently, I corrected the buggy enumerations for GLUT, and OpenGL/GLU. I made three patch files that I want to post here. But there is a problem. I want to credit Mark Kilgard as the original writer of the GLUT enums. And underneath the LGPL comment, I added a comment containing his

Re: Problem to resolve 3.3 release; regarding point 3.) bison, genbc and modern linkers

2024-02-23 Thread John Howard
Less error-prone for others if you create a Diff of your Makefile changes against the original local file. > diff -U original changed for universal format, which the Patch tool can use. Then post with Subject: [PATCH] Makefile. I don’t use Emacs. Diff and Patch automatically determine the

Thanks for Smalltalk

2024-02-15 Thread John Howard
This is a great product! I was exposed to Smalltalk in BYTE August 1981 magazine as a kid. I never had access to it until now. Worth the wait. I have used dozens of computer languages, and earned a Masters in Computer Science with Software Engineering emphasis. In one hour, I was exploring