January 2010 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

graphical/gtk like Smalltalk apps
by SÃ©bastien Serre Jan. 31, 2010

Jan. 31, 2010

Hi all, I just discover Pharo, and i'm very exited by things i have seen. I have a question (google don't help me). Is it possible to create an portable executable that run a simple graphical application (gtk like), I suspect this is higly probable, but I don't find any documentation on the subject. Can you point me to some links/books on the topic? Kind regards

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[ANN] seasidehosting.st for Pharo
by Adrian Lienhard Jan. 29, 2010

Jan. 29, 2010

Hi all, I'm happy to announce that seasidehosting.st now supports Pharo! There are no special settings or configurations needed. Get a Pharo/Seaside image, for instance from www.seaside.st/download/pharo, install your application, and upload it to seasidehosting.st. Before, Pharo was not supported because the special VM used did not run closure images. Since many people asked for support of Pharo, we updated the VM now. It took some time, but as promised, we managed to finish it before the upcoming Pharo 1.0 release. I'd like to thank ESUG and netstyle.ch for their continuous support of Seasidehosting! Cheers, Adrian ___________________ http://www.adrian-lienhard.ch/

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MNU when using TextEntryDialogWindow
by Johan Fabry Jan. 26, 2010

Jan. 26, 2010

Hi all, I want to use a TextEntryDialogWindow, so I tried to get it working, but get a MNU #descent (in pharo 10505) on the following line. (TextEntryDialogWindow new text: 'Enter some text please') open I suppose I am doing it wrong, how do I do it right? -- Johan Fabry jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl - http://dcc.uchile.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD Lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile

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Fwd: [BetaTesting] [ANN] Pharo1.0-10507-rc2dev10.01.2
by Mariano Martinez Peck Jan. 26, 2010

Jan. 26, 2010

Thanks John...I forgot about this list...too new :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:32 PM Subject: [BetaTesting] [ANN] Pharo1.0-10507-rc2dev10.01.2 To: Pharo Development <pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr> Hi folks. This is 1.0 RC2. Please, look at this image in a nice way because it is very likely that if there is no big issue, it will be 1.0 official. We need to release 1.0. * Issues fixed*: In addition to the fixes from the PharoCore, we have: 1033, 1182, 1826, 1862. *Big changes*: - Now we use OB from Lukas Renggli repository and we have ALL TESTS GREEN!!! Thanks Lukas! - O2 loads again in the image without breaking OB. Read the workspace to see how to install it. Thanks David and Alexandre! - We have almost (only one failing here) ALL TESTS of the PharoDev image in green. They are more than 8800. *Smaller changes: * - Fixed the problem with Metacello and OCompletion. No more overrides. - System -> About now shows the real Pharo name, not the core. I am also being "compatible" with the new SystemVersion that we have in 1.1 :) Thanks Michael and Miguel! - I didn't left again my proxy settings. I fixed this in my build scripts. It should be clean :) - Mercury bar is back again. If you want to disable: Preferences disable: #mercuryPanel. - Added a lot of cleanups after creating the image, including condensing .changes - Added Refactoring-Spelling again. Thanks Stan! - I wrote a ConfigurationOfNile instead of Nile-All and depends on Monticello dependencies. - New welcome workspaces. Also getting started workspace and another workspace explaining how to load external packages like Seaside (2.8 and 3), Magritte, Pier, Moose, GetTools, O2, etc. Finally it is also added a link to the new ProfStef :) Do you think that with this we are able to close issue1479 ? - Background with Pharo picture. This was a joke. It looked nice :) I promise I don't put it again if you don't like. To remove it evaluate: World color: Color white. - Enable the preference fastDragWindowForMorphic. Sorry, but it most computers this works REALLY slow. If you want them back, just disable it. - When installing Seaside now doesn't ask for user and password ( admin/seaside ). In addition, the Seaside Control Panel is only isntalled if OB is installed. This means that yu can install it in core or dev. Thanks Dale! - Disable of System Update for Dev images as it is not working properly. The link is: https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/25397/Pharo1.0-10508-rc2dev10.01.2… Cheers Mariano

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FYI: new release candidate image out
by Johan Fabry Jan. 26, 2010

Jan. 26, 2010

Hi all, I have discovered today that there is a new RC2 image out since last friday. (10.01.2.zip or 10508 depending on which numbers make more sense to you) Stef/Markus/Adrian: It would be a good idea to announce releases in the news and/or this mailing list in the future ... -- Johan Fabry jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl - http://dcc.uchile.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD Lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile

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String with: Character cr
by Johan Fabry Jan. 25, 2010

Jan. 25, 2010

Hi all, I am bulding some Strings to have nice textual representations of some of my objects. What is happening a lot is code like this: self foo , ' in ', (String with: Character cr), self bar. Is there some syntactic sugar for String with: Character cr to make these things nicer ? -- Johan Fabry jfabry(a)dcc.uchile.cl - http://dcc.uchile.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD Lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile

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pathfinder object?
by Jack Gibson Jan. 25, 2010

Jan. 25, 2010

Hello, I am wondering if anyone has coded a pathfinding object in Smalltalk? I am working on one, but don't want to "reinvent the wheel". I am new to Pharo and Smalltalk, so this should be a good learning experience. I am using the A* algorithm for starters, but would like to have a variety of pathfinding options using different algorithms. Thanks, Jack

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Is there a tool to get the diff of two different classes?
by Stefan Marr Jan. 24, 2010

Jan. 24, 2010

Hi: I already found the DiffMorph which looks like it takes just two strings. So, I wondered whether there might already be something where I can just input the classnames and get a nice view of all differences? Thanks Stefan -- Stefan Marr Software Languages Lab Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr Phone: +32 2 629 3956 Fax: +32 2 629 3525

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Kill all non-essential processes in one go?
by Stefan Marr Jan. 24, 2010

Jan. 24, 2010

Hi: Is there an easy way to kill all non-essential processes in an image? Some of my unit tests spawn a huge number of new processes, and I want to get rid of them easily when there was an error anywhere. Any ideas? To be able to select multiple items in the process browser would be a great start... Thanks Stefan -- Stefan Marr Software Languages Lab Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr Phone: +32 2 629 3956 Fax: +32 2 629 3525

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Spell-checking code and comments?
by Stefan Marr Jan. 20, 2010

Jan. 20, 2010

Hi: Is there anything for the editor, which does a spell check on code and/or comments with a reasonable understanding of typical patterns like CamelCasing to separate words? Thanks Stefan -- Stefan Marr Software Languages Lab Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr Phone: +32 2 629 3956 Fax: +32 2 629 3525

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