Re: [Pharo-dev] XPath chapter...

2017-10-23 Thread J.F. Rick
va > > Best regards, > > Hernán > > > > 2017-10-21 14:04 GMT-03:00 J.F. Rick <s...@je77.com>: > > NICE! I was just using XPath for Selenium testing. It is really great for > > that application (commanding a browser like Firefox or Chrome to simulate &g

Re: [Pharo-dev] XPath chapter...

2017-10-21 Thread J.F. Rick
NICE! I was just using XPath for Selenium testing. It is really great for that application (commanding a browser like Firefox or Chrome to simulate user actions). What are the applications for XPath in Pharo? Unit testing of generating markup? Cheers, Jeff PS After spending significant time

Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] Material Design For Seaside V1.0.0

2016-09-23 Thread J.F. Rick
Lovely. Something's not quite working with the Menus example on Chrome Ubuntu. I always get the same menu. Cheers, Jeff On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:48 AM Christophe Demarey < christophe.dema...@inria.fr> wrote: > > > Le 23 sept. 2016 à 16:21, Cyril Ferlicot D. > a

[Pharo-dev] Error: cannot create OS pipe

2016-07-28 Thread J.F. Rick
I've been using CommandShell for some operations on OSX with Pharo5. After doing a number of "PipeableOSProcess command:" calls (~150), I get an error inside ExternalPipe:makePipe. For my purposes, I can get around this by restarting Pharo and limiting the number of operations each session. But,

Re: [Pharo-dev] Athens Font Rendering Bug

2016-07-20 Thread J.F. Rick
Thanks. It is working nicely. On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:32 PM Nicolai Hess <nicolaih...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2016-07-20 20:46 GMT+02:00 J.F. Rick <s...@je77.com>: > >> Cool. What should I use? Is this useful: >> http://www.tudorgirba.com/blog/free-font-collection

Re: [Pharo-dev] Athens Font Rendering Bug

2016-07-20 Thread J.F. Rick
It seems that emphasis is also not respected in Athens. If I try the following, it works in BitBlt, but both are rendered as plain inside Athens. | font boldFont | font := StrikeFont familyName: 'Arial' pointSize: 18. boldFont := StrikeFont familyName: 'Arial' pointSize: 18 emphasized:

Re: [Pharo-dev] Athens Font Rendering Bug

2016-07-10 Thread J.F. Rick
heers > Alex > On Jul 10, 2016 6:16 PM, "J.F. Rick" <s...@je77.com> wrote: > >> Perhaps other people have already reported this for Bloc but something is >> wrong with the font rendering of Athens. Here's the code and how it is >> rendered in Athens vs how

[Pharo-dev] Athens Font Rendering Bug

2016-07-10 Thread J.F. Rick
Perhaps other people have already reported this for Bloc but something is wrong with the font rendering of Athens. Here's the code and how it is rendered in Athens vs how it is rendered in BitBlt. It seems like Athens adds more space between letters than is supposed to be there. tMorph :=

Re: [Pharo-dev] Sound on Debian

2016-07-08 Thread J.F. Rick
Th vm-sound-pulse plugin packaged with the Squeak VM works on Ubuntu. Cheers, Jeff On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 1:14 PM Dimitris Chloupis wrote: > Was not able to make it work in Ubuntu either, for me it work only on MacOS > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 5:54 PM jannik laval

Re: [Pharo-dev] AthensCairoSurface not getting garbage collected

2016-07-08 Thread J.F. Rick
> Alexandre > > > On Jul 6, 2016, at 9:01 PM, J.F. Rick <s...@je77.com> wrote: > > > > Nicolai, > > > > THANKS! That worked. I no longer have any AthensCairoCanvas hanging > around after executing "CairoBackendCache flush". > > > > Chee

Re: [Pharo-dev] AthensCairoSurface not getting garbage collected

2016-07-06 Thread J.F. Rick
t on an AthensCairoCanvas, they are cached in the > CairoBackendCache, > can you try to flush that cache whith > CairoBackendCache flush. > > > 2016-06-18 18:36 GMT+02:00 J.F. Rick <s...@je77.com>: > >> I'm using Athens rendering for my multi-touch applications on

Re: [Pharo-dev] AthensCairoSurface not getting garbage collected

2016-06-23 Thread J.F. Rick
Igor Stasenko <siguc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18 June 2016 at 19:36, J.F. Rick <s...@je77.com> wrote: > >> I'm using Athens rendering for my multi-touch applications on Pharo5. As >> part of that, I create a surface: >> surface := AthensCairoSurface

Re: [Pharo-dev] AthensCairoSurface not getting garbage collected

2016-06-22 Thread J.F. Rick
and Pharo5. On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 12:36 PM J.F. Rick <s...@je77.com> wrote: > I'm using Athens rendering for my multi-touch applications on Pharo5. As > part of that, I create a surface: > surface := AthensCairoSurface extent: bounds extent asIntegerPoint. > > Though the object

[Pharo-dev] Ubuntu Installation Change

2016-06-21 Thread J.F. Rick
You might also want to include the following in the i386 section of the Ubuntu installation: apt-get install libcairo2:i386 While Athens isn't readily used, it is in the image. Cheers, Jeff

[Pharo-dev] AthensCairoSurface not getting garbage collected

2016-06-18 Thread J.F. Rick
I'm using Athens rendering for my multi-touch applications on Pharo5. As part of that, I create a surface: surface := AthensCairoSurface extent: bounds extent asIntegerPoint. Though the object creating that surface is deleted, the surface sticks around. So, each time I run the app, I get another

Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] Pharo 6.0 Development started

2016-05-13 Thread J.F. Rick
Is there a (informal) roadmap for Pharo 6.0? What are the major things that are being targeted? Bloc replacing Morphic? Move from 32-bit to 64-bit? Athens-based rendering? Cheers, Jeff On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:31 AM Esteban Lorenzano wrote: > Hi, > > So, that: We just

Re: [Pharo-dev] new pharo cheatsheet

2016-04-11 Thread J.F. Rick
of Smalltalk. Mention and illustrate what do: collect: and select: do. Then mention that there are other ones like count: and sum:. Cheers, Jeff On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 4:57 AM Cyril Ferlicot D. <cyril.ferli...@gmail.com> wrote: > Le 08/04/2016 22:08, J.F. Rick a écrit : > > It look

Re: [Pharo-dev] new pharo cheatsheet

2016-04-08 Thread J.F. Rick
It looks good. I might mention that most data structures are 1 indexed as most other languages tend to be 0 indexed and that throws people new to the language. On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 3:58 PM stepharo wrote: > new cheatsheet for Pharo syntax. > Any feedback is welcome > > Stef

[Pharo-dev] Bloc, Athens, Pharo5 advice

2016-04-03 Thread J.F. Rick
Hi everybody, I've been off doing a seaside project which really had me using Pharo more than doing anything new to develop for it. Now, I'm in the project where I get to do some more fun stuff on multi-touch interfaces in Pharo. It seems like Pharo has made major progress in that direction so

Re: [Pharo-dev] fullscreen on MacOS (possible VM bug)

2016-03-25 Thread J.F. Rick
In good news, this problem seems to not exist with the latest Pharo5 VM + image (seems not backwards compatible to the Pharo4 image), so that'll fix my problem as I'll just use Pharo5 instead of Pharo4 for this project. Cheers, Jeff On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:08 PM J.F. Rick <s...@je77.

Re: [Pharo-dev] fullscreen on MacOS (possible VM bug)

2016-03-25 Thread J.F. Rick
In further details, when it is green-button maximized, then I can run "Display fullscreenOn" and it doesn't crash. I also upgraded the desktop to the latest OS (10.11.4) but that doesn't fix it. Cheers, Jeff On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 11:12 AM J.F. Rick <s...@je77.com> wrote: >

[Pharo-dev] fullscreen on MacOS (possible VM bug)

2016-03-25 Thread J.F. Rick
Hi, I'm trying to run fullscreen Pharo on MacOS using "Display fullscreenOn". On my laptop (13" Macbook Pro, OS 10.11.4), that works. On my desktop (MacMini, 4k display, OS 10.11.3), the screen goes to black for several seconds and the VM crashes. I am attaching the crash.dmp file. Note that this

Re: [Pharo-dev] #sum:, #detectSum:, #sumNumbers:

2015-12-01 Thread J.F. Rick
Lovely little discussion which would be great for beginning OO programmers to see. The question of whether to return 0 for an empty collection is interesting. While other things can be summed, we tend to think of sums returning numbers. In that sense, 0 is a great default return. On the other

[Pharo-dev] Playing video

2015-11-30 Thread J.F. Rick
Is there a way to play a video file (MP4, AVI, etc.) in Pharo for Mac? There used to be a way to do this in Squeak but I can't find any documentation of how I might do it in Pharo.

Re: [Pharo-dev] Ubuntu fullscreen problems

2015-11-09 Thread J.F. Rick
Works like a charm: both toggling modes and using the Unity pager to switch workspaces. Thanks! Jeff On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 6:40 PM Nicolai Hess <nicolaih...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2015-10-28 20:14 GMT+01:00 J.F. Rick <s...@je77.com>: > >> Cool. I guess if there i

[Pharo-dev] Ubuntu fullscreen problems

2015-10-28 Thread J.F. Rick
Hi everybody, I just upgraded to Ubuntu 15.10 and am using Unity User Interface. I want Pharo to use the full screen (i.e., above the menu bar and launcher). Inside Pharo, I can choose "Toggle full screen mode". This works to some extent but has some problems: (1) I can no longer switch

Re: [Pharo-dev] Ubuntu fullscreen problems

2015-10-28 Thread J.F. Rick
ood idea so it doesn't get forgotten. >> >> Peter >> >> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 3:15 PM, J.F. Rick <s...@je77.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi everybody, >>> >>> I just upgraded to Ubuntu 15.10 and am using Unity User Interface. I >>

Re: [Pharo-dev] Fwd: [Pharo-users] [ann] brick on top of bloc - preview

2015-08-27 Thread J.F. Rick
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:45 PM Ben Coman b...@openinworld.com wrote: So morphic has a Z-order but I think not a Z-depth. Is that be something we should be aiming for? In HTML5, Z-depth is pretty exclusively used as a mechanism to determine Z-order in the HTML / CSS separation. Normally, the

[Pharo-dev] Bug? JPEG reading ignores EXIF Orientation

2015-02-24 Thread J.F. Rick
A lot of mobile phone cameras use the EXIF metadata of JPEG to indicate the orientation of the image (i.e., vertical vs horizontal, upside down, etc.). In Pharo 3 (I doubt it has changed in Pharo 4), that data is ignored. So, when you convert a photo taken from a mobile device to a form, it will

[Pharo-dev] Fwd: Running Pharo on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS 64-bit

2015-02-16 Thread J.F. Rick
It's probably obvious to you now but arguments up to and including the image name are processed by the VM and arguments thereafter are left for the image. Indeed. I've just always been used to practice of setting flags first when executing a unix command. Perhaps this would be worthwhile

Re: [Pharo-dev] Running Pharo on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS 64-bit

2015-02-16 Thread J.F. Rick
Well, after sleeping over it, I too figured that it was the --no-quit that you were looking for. Still, the --headless is not needed with the plain pharo command ;-) I had actually found the --no-quit option a long time ago but never thought that it had to come after the image name. BTW,

Re: [Pharo-dev] Running Pharo on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS 64-bit

2015-02-15 Thread J.F. Rick
principles, sorry. On 15 Feb 2015, at 23:10, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: This somewhat works. At minimum, the command for downloading the google home page works. On the other hand, the pharo-ui line caused an error: pharo: could not find any display driver That's not a huge deal

Re: [Pharo-dev] Running Pharo on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS 64-bit

2015-02-15 Thread J.F. Rick
This somewhat works. At minimum, the command for downloading the google home page works. On the other hand, the pharo-ui line caused an error: pharo: could not find any display driver That's not a huge deal as this is on a remote server and I can run headless. However, when I try to do that

Re: [Pharo-dev] Running Pharo on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS 64-bit

2015-02-15 Thread J.F. Rick
for the help, Jeff On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe s...@stfx.eu wrote: BTW, these are pharo-users questions ... On 16 Feb 2015, at 01:17, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: I understand unix quite well. Fine. All the ./pharo does is redirect to the vm

Re: [Pharo-dev] Ubunti 14.04 32bit install error

2015-02-14 Thread J.F. Rick
*-*architecture* i386 first? Best regards, Markus On 13.02.2015 23:10, J.F. Rick wrote: I just tried it (Ubuntu 14.04) and it doesn't work: The following packages have unmet dependencies: pharo-launcher : Depends: pharo-vm-desktop:i386 but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems

Re: [Pharo-dev] Ubunti 14.04 32bit install error

2015-02-14 Thread J.F. Rick
. Cheers, Jeff On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 7:58 AM, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: I followed the instructions on the Download Pharo page. So, I did include that command. I just tried it again with the same result. Cheers, Jeff On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 4:04 AM, Markus Fritsche mfrits...@reauktion.de

Re: [Pharo-dev] Ubunti 14.04 32bit install error

2015-02-13 Thread J.F. Rick
I just tried it (Ubuntu 14.04) and it doesn't work: The following packages have unmet dependencies: pharo-launcher : Depends: pharo-vm-desktop:i386 but it is not installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Cheers, Jeff On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Damien

[Pharo-dev] Installing Pharo on Ubuntu

2015-01-26 Thread J.F. Rick
I have a new computer and installed Ubuntu 14.10 on it. When I tried to install Pharo using the PPA instructions, it failed. I get the following message when executing sudo apt-get update: W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/pharo/stable/ubuntu/dists/utopic/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404

Re: [Pharo-dev] R: from 2009's The death of Smalltalk to 2014's But Really, You Should Learn Smalltalk

2015-01-12 Thread J.F. Rick
Hi Sebastian, Noel is actually my academic older brother (i.e., we had the same doctoral advisor). Noel's introduction is nice but it is to people who know how to program (specifically, Ruby programmers). That's useful. The Pharo books and YouTube videos do this very well. But, you also need to

[Pharo-dev] The death of Smalltalk

2015-01-09 Thread J.F. Rick
Hi everyone, I just watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX3iRjKj7C0 and had a few comments that I thought I would share. First, there is a real opportunity for Smalltalk to come back in the guise of Pharo. Steph and Marcus are doing a great job providing leadership towards that end and the

Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] OnScreenKeyboard

2014-11-24 Thread J.F. Rick
Awesome. I've been working on an onscreen keyboard as well. Perhaps we can join forces, though it will be a while before I can continue to work on it. Cheers, Jeff On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Pavel Krivanek pavel.kriva...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I created the first version of a virtual

Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] OnScreenKeyboard

2014-11-24 Thread J.F. Rick
/touchmousepointer/en-us/ Cheers, -- Pavel 2014-11-24 15:13 GMT+01:00 J.F. Rick s...@je77.com: Awesome. I've been working on an onscreen keyboard as well. Perhaps we can join forces, though it will be a while before I can continue to work on it. Cheers, Jeff On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 2:55

[Pharo-dev] SandstoneDB questions

2014-11-04 Thread J.F. Rick
I'm starting to use SandstoneDB for a project (seems pretty cool) and I had two questions: (1) I noticed that the commit: instance method discussed in the documentation does not exist. Has it been deprecated? There is a commit: class method but it seems like instance functionality. (2) It seems

Re: [Pharo-dev] Context variables?

2014-10-16 Thread J.F. Rick
for each variable you want. Ex: DynamicVariable subclass: #MyVar. MyVar value: 4 during: [ MyVar value ] HTH, Camiile On 15 oct. 2014, at 17:09, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: I remember there was some discussion on the list about support for variables tied to the context rather than

[Pharo-dev] Context variables?

2014-10-15 Thread J.F. Rick
I remember there was some discussion on the list about support for variables tied to the context rather than to the instance or class. This seems particularly useful for a web application where you might want to access the request and response from the context. What is the proper name for these

Re: [Pharo-dev] ANNC: QR Code (v.2)

2014-10-07 Thread J.F. Rick
/14 17:49, J.F. Rick wrote: I've got a new version of the QR Code generator: http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~JochenRick/QRCode http://smalltalkhub.com/#%21/%7EJochenRick/QRCode This one includes support for MicroQR, for UTF-8 encoding and other aspects of the latest QR standard (e.g., mirroring

Re: [Pharo-dev] ANNC: QR Code (v.2)

2014-10-07 Thread J.F. Rick
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Esteban A. Maringolo emaring...@gmail.com wrote: ps: There is also a way to encode a QR with a image/logo inside, but I don't know how that works. As far as I can tell, that whole embed an image / logo is a stupid hack. QR codes have error correction. So, if

[Pharo-dev] ANNC: QR Code (v.2)

2014-10-06 Thread J.F. Rick
I've got a new version of the QR Code generator: http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~JochenRick/QRCode This one includes support for MicroQR, for UTF-8 encoding and other aspects of the latest QR standard (e.g., mirroring). I've also written a small Zinc web app which makes it easy to try out. Enjoy!

Re: [Pharo-dev] About ways to participate in community and general negativity

2014-10-03 Thread J.F. Rick
Hi Esteban, seconding your points, it is important to acknowledge why a solid Pharo core is important and worth striving towards even if it can be painful. First, read Bret Victor's reflection on Doug Englebart: http://worrydream.com/#!/Engelbart He makes the case that the vision that drove

Re: [Pharo-dev] Proportional Tab Stops

2014-09-03 Thread J.F. Rick
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 9:43 AM, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: Hi everyone, I'm writing for two reasons. First, I wanted to let people know that I haven't disappeared. I'm just having to take a break as I finish up with my current academic post. As I am no longer going to be there, Pharo

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Article] Elegant Pharo Code

2014-07-14 Thread J.F. Rick
I've often wondered if there might not be a better way to write while loops that output a product, similar to enumeration sum: and count:. | sum count index | sum := 0. count := 0. index := 1. [ index := index + 1. index isPrime ifTrue: [ count := count + 1. sum := sum + index ].

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Pharo-users] PillarHub

2014-07-02 Thread J.F. Rick
Awesome. Not that I have time right now but I have always wanted to bring Swiki / AniAniWeb into the present. This would be the right foundational work to make this a useful reality. On a side note, I apologize for all the bad qualities of Pillar markup. Back in 1999, I created ComSwiki out of

Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] LaTeX to Pillar converter

2014-06-23 Thread J.F. Rick
Cool. Jeff On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Damien Cassou damien.cas...@gmail.com wrote: I'm happy to announce that I wrote a LaTeX to Pillar converter. This converter should not be considered perfect and proof reading is required. Still, the converter could automatically convert from:

[Pharo-dev] Random VM crashes

2014-04-09 Thread J.F. Rick
Hi, when I have one of my multi-touch programs open, Pharo occasionally (read once every few days) just crashes. Ubuntu mentions a failure to report to Ubuntu on the pharovm but I'm not sure how to understand that failure. I thought it might be one of two things: (1) some sort of problem with

Re: [Pharo-dev] Random VM crashes

2014-04-09 Thread J.F. Rick
Athens, is the culprit. Cheers, Jeff On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Igor Stasenko siguc...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 April 2014 13:55, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: Hi, when I have one of my multi-touch programs open, Pharo occasionally (read once every few days) just crashes. Ubuntu

Re: [Pharo-dev] Suggested Syntax Highlighting Features for Beginners

2014-04-08 Thread J.F. Rick
forgotten. On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 7:26 PM, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Ben Coman b...@openinworld.com wrote: For assignment, I would say bold both := and the variable being assigned to. I like that a lot, especially since it draws the two critical

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Moose-dev] Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Font problem is still there

2014-04-04 Thread J.F. Rick
Woohoo! Works for me. You made my day. In regards to determining the DPI of the display, can't we just set that as a preference with a default value of 96? That would satisfy 98% of cases. We could also add a primitive that would allow the VM to have its say (e.g., retina display on MacOS). When

Re: [Pharo-dev] Suggested Syntax Highlighting Features for Beginners

2014-04-04 Thread J.F. Rick
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Ben Coman b...@openinworld.com wrote: For assignment, I would say bold both := and the variable being assigned to. I like that a lot, especially since it draws the two critical elements of variable and assignment together. On a minor note, both := and = are

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Moose-dev] Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Font problem is still there

2014-04-03 Thread J.F. Rick
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:55 PM, Pharo4Stef pharo4s...@free.fr wrote: On 02 Apr 2014, at 14:46, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: Is this supposed to fix the font rendering problem or some other font problem? I tried it and it doesn't seem to help the rendering problem. normally it should

Re: [Pharo-dev] [Moose-dev] Re: Re: Re: Fwd: Font problem is still there

2014-04-02 Thread J.F. Rick
Is this supposed to fix the font rendering problem or some other font problem? I tried it and it doesn't seem to help the rendering problem. Cheers, Jeff On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Igor Stasenko siguc...@gmail.com wrote: okay i uploaded updated configs for NativeBoost and Athens into

Re: [Pharo-dev] Redraw suggestion for Athens

2014-03-27 Thread J.F. Rick
efficient as you wouldn't be copying large amount of bits from one form to another on a regular basis. Cheers, Jeff On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Igor Stasenko siguc...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 March 2014 20:22, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: I've been using Athens to render my applications

Re: [Pharo-dev] Font problem is still there

2014-03-27 Thread J.F. Rick
Ubuntu (latest) + Arial font (though other fonts have the same problem). Cheers, Jeff On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Igor Stasenko siguc...@gmail.com wrote: Btw, guys i need some details: - what platform you using - what default font you using On 26 March 2014 21:27, Tudor Girba

[Pharo-dev] Redraw suggestion for Athens

2014-03-26 Thread J.F. Rick
I've been using Athens to render my applications and I've thought a bit about how the #changed mechanism might change when BitBlt rendering is replaced by Athens rendering. First, you must realize that a lot of the rendering in Morphic is highly specialized to deal with the slowness of BitBlt

Re: [Pharo-dev] pharo sound should be working

2014-03-20 Thread J.F. Rick
Any ideas of how to go forward? It seems to work for some people on Linux but not for me. Mine is Ubuntu 13.10 (64 bit). And I have all the libasound2 libraries installed. Cheers, Jeff On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 2:11 PM, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: I've tried the zeroconf script. It installs

Re: [Pharo-dev] pharo sound should be working

2014-03-20 Thread J.F. Rick
issue: http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=7328 Cheers, Jeff On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Esteban Lorenzano esteba...@gmail.comwrote: the 32bits version of them? I can create a parallels image and try there... no promises :) Esteban On 20 Mar 2014, at 09:42, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote

Re: [Pharo-dev] pharo sound should be working

2014-03-20 Thread J.F. Rick
, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: Some more information. SoundPlayer boinkScale works. FMSound does not work. When I try playing a sampled sound, I get the following message in the terminal: sound_Start(default) soundStart: snd_add_pcm_handler: Function not implemented It also crashes

Re: [Pharo-dev] pharo sound should be working

2014-03-17 Thread J.F. Rick
What would I need to do to install it on Ubuntu? Could I just use the PPA? If so, what are the commands? Cheers, Jeff On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Esteban Lorenzano esteba...@gmail.comwrote: can you check with the latest vm now? btw... you need to install: sudo apt-get install

Re: [Pharo-dev] Touch Events VM changes

2014-03-12 Thread J.F. Rick
March 2014 11:37, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: As we move from mouse-keyboard devices to touch-based ones, it would be nice if we could unify touch development across the different Pharo platforms (iOS, Android, Windows 8, Linux, etc.), so that we can start to build touch-aware widgets

[Pharo-dev] Touch Events VM changes

2014-03-11 Thread J.F. Rick
As we move from mouse-keyboard devices to touch-based ones, it would be nice if we could unify touch development across the different Pharo platforms (iOS, Android, Windows 8, Linux, etc.), so that we can start to build touch-aware widgets and frameworks. Currently, there's a lot of interest but

Re: [Pharo-dev] Touch Events VM changes

2014-03-11 Thread J.F. Rick
it. Then is easier to maintain :) Anyway, we are slowly working on it (See Igor Ronnie work around OSWindow). But is probably too slow :) Esteban On 11 Mar 2014, at 11:37, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: As we move from mouse-keyboard devices to touch-based ones, it would be nice if we could

Re: [Pharo-dev] Touch Events VM changes

2014-03-11 Thread J.F. Rick
Reyner sergi.rey...@gmail.comwrote: 2014-03-11 10:37 GMT+00:00 J.F. Rick s...@je77.com: As we move from mouse-keyboard devices to touch-based ones I certainly hope that we refers to a small group of people, unless we get onscreen keyboards as good as physical ones, feedback included. The same

Re: [Pharo-dev] how can I test soundplugin?

2014-03-10 Thread J.F. Rick
Yes, load PharoSound and do the following: SoundPlayer boinkScale. SoundService soundEnabled. SoundService registeredClasses. SoundService reset. BaseSoundSystem soundEnabled: true. SoundService default. ss := SoundService default new. ss class soundEnabled. ss class soundEnabled: true. ss beep.

[Pharo-dev] AthensCanvas isVisible:

2014-02-25 Thread J.F. Rick
I'm trying to make the most of Athens rendering. One problem is that AthensCanvas currently does not support clipping. In normal Morphic, when an object changes its appearance, a changed message triggers the damage recorder to mark the full bounds as invalid. On the next redraw cycle, a canvas is

Re: [Pharo-dev] Fwd: [Moose-dev] Text Displaying issue with Roassal

2014-02-25 Thread J.F. Rick
Here's an updated bug for this: https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/12777/Athens-font-cacheing-bug Cheers, Jeff On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Vincent Blondeau vincent.blond...@polytech-lille.net wrote: Hi Pharoers, We are encounter a problem with text displaying under Roassal. Roassal

Re: [Pharo-dev] Fwd: [Moose-dev] Text Displaying issue with Roassal

2014-02-25 Thread J.F. Rick
Thanks, but the keyboard design is basically ripping off iOS and Android. Once it works, I'll share. Cheers, Jeff On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Tudor Girba tu...@tudorgirba.com wrote: This is a beautiful looking keyboard :) Doru On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 2:45 PM, J.F. Rick s...@je77

[Pharo-dev] Animation by Stepping

2014-02-20 Thread J.F. Rick
Athens graphics are fast enough that it is possible to do high frame-rate animations. I've been trying (and, to various degrees, succeeding) in adding animations to my touch applications. I'm using stepping to do it. Basically, you just move pieces / update the display when step gets called. If

Re: [Pharo-dev] Animation by Stepping

2014-02-20 Thread J.F. Rick
:= priorWorld So, I wonder why it would be different in Squeak. HTH Phil On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 5:16 PM, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: Athens graphics are fast enough that it is possible to do high frame-rate animations. I've been trying (and, to various degrees

Re: [Pharo-dev] Animation by Stepping

2014-02-20 Thread J.F. Rick
support touch. Phil On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 6:51 PM, kilon alios kilon.al...@gmail.comwrote: Interesting topic, there is also this http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~vmariano/Pegasus but I have not used it so I cant say how usable it is. On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:46 PM, J.F. Rick s...@je77

[Pharo-dev] Amber Suggested Use

2014-02-14 Thread J.F. Rick
It would be cool to use Pharo / Amber to do something like the following: http://flapmmo.com Cheers, Jeff -- Jochen Jeff Rick, Ph.D. http://www.je77.com/ Skype ID: jochenrick

Re: [Pharo-dev] Why Smalltalk is not popular?

2014-02-12 Thread J.F. Rick
Well, there are some serious reasons that Smalltalk is not currently so popular. Here are a few: (1) It used to be expensive. That kept it from being adopted initially. That may no longer be the case but, once the reputation is ruined, it is hard for people to give it a second chance. (2) There is

Re: [Pharo-dev] Shortcuts

2014-02-05 Thread J.F. Rick
I actually just reported this bug to FogBugz today. Try doing it twice in a row and see if that gets you what you want. If so, that matches my experience on Ubuntu. Investigating a bit further, it seems that ctrl and command are different for different platforms. Try doing alt-f and see if that

Re: [Pharo-dev] process to collaborate on cleaning morphic

2014-01-29 Thread J.F. Rick
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Pavel Krivanek pavel.kriva...@gmail.comwrote: I would like to continue in the direction started with the Morphic-Core. It's a subset of Morphic that is able to be loaded into a headless image, initialize itself and show world with one basic responsive morph.

Re: [Pharo-dev] Athens Font Problem

2014-01-27 Thread J.F. Rick
, 2014 at 6:53 PM, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: While trying to use fonts with Athens is no longer crashing my up-to-date Ubuntu Pharo image (sweet!), there is a weird phenomenon of fonts varying in size. I've created some simple code to showcase it and capture what it looks like: Cheers, Jeff

Re: [Pharo-dev] process to collaborate on cleaning morphic

2014-01-26 Thread J.F. Rick
I've spent a considerable amount of time fighting with Morphic trying to get TouchUI and Athens rendering working. Based on that, my feeling is that getting Athens thoroughly integrated into Morphic is key. The way Morphic used to work is that a morph would signal itself as changed, marking its

[Pharo-dev] Nautilus UI Improvement Suggestion

2014-01-23 Thread J.F. Rick
Someone complained about the History Navigator being in an unintuitive position a while back. What about moving the functionality into the title. Add a drop down or list icon to the right of the title and clicking on that can be used to navigate it. As it currently is, the title and the History

Re: [Pharo-dev] Pharo 3.0 not responding to mouse or keyboard after launch

2014-01-11 Thread J.F. Rick
Try just hitting Alt without anything else. That has worked for me on Linux. Jeff On Saturday, January 11, 2014, Martin McClure wrote: On 01/10/2014 09:15 PM, Martin McClure wrote: I saw this a time or two in Pharo 2.0, and now I've seen it in Pharo 3.0 -- I launch my working image and all

Re: [Pharo-dev] Athens SVG Import

2014-01-09 Thread J.F. Rick
rendering, it may not be 25 times faster. Cheers, Jeff On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Igor Stasenko siguc...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 January 2014 10:26, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: OK. I've made a little headway in diagnosing the problem. It seems that one culprit is that the self

Re: [Pharo-dev] Athens SVG Import

2014-01-09 Thread J.F. Rick
Stasenko siguc...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 January 2014 12:54, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: 'self changed' logic is the thing that triggers drawing. Before Athens, various different morphs would register that their part of the screen needed to be updated with a 'self changed' thing

Re: [Pharo-dev] Athens SVG Import

2014-01-08 Thread J.F. Rick
:25, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Igor Stasenko siguc...@gmail.comwrote: Right. Converting Form(s) to paint(s) is memory intensive operation. Basically, it copies contents of the form to newly created surface. To avoid this, use caching. Here is an example

Re: [Pharo-dev] Athens SVG Import

2014-01-08 Thread J.F. Rick
forms to SVGs. Perhaps it is having to redraw the entire interface very often. I'll investigate a bit more when I have some time. Cheers, Jeff On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Igor Stasenko siguc...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 January 2014 08:59, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: In good news, I

Re: [Pharo-dev] XMLParser Problem with SVG

2014-01-06 Thread J.F. Rick
seconds to retrieve the DTD for SVG and that gets annoying. Cheers, Jeff On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe s...@stfx.eu wrote: On 06 Jan 2014, at 10:06, Igor Stasenko siguc...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 January 2014 15:19, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: I am trying

[Pharo-dev] Athens SVG Import

2014-01-06 Thread J.F. Rick
This message is mainly for Igor, who probably already curses every time he sees my name on the development list. But, perhaps others have had some experience with this as well. I'm still working on moving my touch applications to Athens. I am running into a major problem with icons. My

[Pharo-dev] XMLParser Problem with SVG

2014-01-05 Thread J.F. Rick
I am trying to use SVG with Athens; however, the XMLParser for Pharo 3.0 cannot read normal SVG files that it used to. So, the demo of ASVGMorph fromFile: 'lion.svg' fails in the XMLParser (i.e., before ASVGMorph really does anything to it). It seems to download the DTD file from the Internet and

Re: [Pharo-dev] Soundplugin for Windows/Linux

2014-01-04 Thread J.F. Rick
Great to hear. Not having sound on linux is a bit annoying. Cheers, Jeff On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Esteban Lorenzano esteba...@gmail.comwrote: is in my todo before release… but patience :) On 04 Jan 2014, at 00:12, Nicolai Hess nicolaih...@web.de wrote: Can someone change PharoVM

Re: [Pharo-dev] Weird Athens Artifact

2014-01-03 Thread J.F. Rick
, which is a silly choice. Though adding transparent should not make a difference in the rendering, it does. Cheers, Jeff On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:29 PM, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: I'm aware of the default Morphic behavior. I've hacked it so that a transparent 1x1 pixel bit is in the hand

Re: [Pharo-dev] Don't make me think (the one thing you shouldn't ignore about user interfaces)

2014-01-03 Thread J.F. Rick
As somebody coming from the HCI side, rather than the software engineering / programming language side, I too value usability. But, it seems to me that you first do the major changes and then slowly hone to get usability right. I find lots of small little usability bugs in Pharo 3.0 but I assume

[Pharo-dev] Weird Athens Artifact

2014-01-02 Thread J.F. Rick
I've been converting DigiTile over to Athens with general success but I have found an odd rendering bug. In this scenario, I am moving the brown square around with a hand. As I am using AthensWrapMorph, I have made it so that the brown square is a submorph of the application (an AthensWrapMorph)

Re: [Pharo-dev] Weird Athens Artifact

2014-01-02 Thread J.F. Rick
. Cheers, Jeff On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Igor Stasenko siguc...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 January 2014 16:54, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com wrote: I've been converting DigiTile over to Athens with general success but I have found an odd rendering bug. In this scenario, I am moving the brown

[Pharo-dev] Problems with Athens Font Rendering

2013-12-20 Thread J.F. Rick
I keep on crashing my VM based on using Athens to render fonts. Some things work; some don't. It is a mystery. I managed to install the TrueType fonts. I'm using StringMorph in an AthensWrapMorph, so it is rendered in Athens. When I do the following, it seems to work fine: string := StringMorph

Re: [Pharo-dev] Convert to Athens

2013-12-04 Thread J.F. Rick
I'm facing some problems with AthensWrapMorph. Basically, when I add a morph, I can't change its position. It just stays in the top left. Whatever I try to do to change its position (self position: 100@100) does not work. Cheers, Jeff On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 5:04 PM, J.F. Rick s...@je77.com

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