February 2010 - Pharo-users

Pharo party near Annecy, France
by laurent laffont March 16, 2010

March 16, 2010

Hi, We (a developper group) organize a Pharo & Smalltalk meeting near Annecy, France. Saturday, March 20th. 2:00 pm - 6:00pm. Location. FÃ©lix CrÃ©ation. 4 bis, avenue du Pont de Tasset | 74960 Cran-Gevrier / ANNECY | France Welcome to all curious developpers who wants to learn. Welcome to all experienced developpers who wants to share their knowledge. We will have wireless access, big screen ... and coffee :) Send me a mail if you want to participate. Cheers, Laurent Laffont

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Re: [Pharo-users] Getting a web page
by Steve Graham Feb. 27, 2010

Feb. 27, 2010

I'm using Pharo-1.0-10508-rc2. And, yes, I was trying to "do" a comment.Â Silly me. Thanks for thinking of the obvious (to everyone but me).Â Works fine now. Steve --- On Fri, 2/26/10, Michael Roberts <mike(a)mjr104.co.uk> wrote: From: Michael Roberts <mike(a)mjr104.co.uk> Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Getting a web page To: "Steve Graham" <jsgrahamus(a)yahoo.com> Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 9:52 AM Which version of Pharo are you using?Â When I try that in a core 1.0 image it seems to work ok.Â Looking at the code it opens a window for you so you only need to do-it.Â I assume you are not selecting the quotes, otherwise that would just be a comment. cheers, Mike On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Steve Graham <jsgrahamus(a)yahoo.com> wrote: I'm a newbie to Smalltalk, but not to programming. I'm trying to get a web page using an example from Squeak and Pharo (which I have loaded on my machine): " Â HTTPSocket httpShowPage: 'http://www.altavista.digital.com/ index.html' Â Â Â " When I select this and do it - I get nothing. When I select this and print it - I get nil What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ Pharo-users mailing list Pharo-users(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-users

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Getting a web page
by Steve Graham Feb. 26, 2010

Feb. 26, 2010

I'm a newbie to Smalltalk, but not to programming. I'm trying to get a web page using an example from Squeak and Pharo (which I have loaded on my machine): " Â HTTPSocket httpShowPage: 'http://www.altavista.digital.com/ index.html' Â Â Â " When I select this and do it - I get nothing. When I select this and print it - I get nil What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Steve

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Fwd: [Pharo-project] Sprint at Bern
by Marcus Denker Feb. 23, 2010

Feb. 23, 2010

Hi, even though mainly to get work done (i.e. for developers), it could be nevertheless interesting for "users" to come and learn: > Hi guys > > the software composition group of the university of bern is organizing a Pharo sprint > saturday 13 of march. > You are all welcome. > > http://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/PharoSprints?ts=1266658289&updated=Phar… > > http://scg.unibe.ch/contact/maps > > Thanks SCG for organizing and hosting this. > > Stef (we should blog about it) -- Marcus Denker -- http://www.marcusdenker.de INRIA Lille -- Nord Europe. Team RMoD.

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Modal Dialogs
by Dr. Keith A. Morneau Feb. 19, 2010

Feb. 19, 2010

Hello, I am new to Pharo and I am trying to figure out a way to do modal AlertDialogWindow. The documentation I noticed says - someMorph openModal: aSystemWindow. Well, I can not seem to get the the Alert to be modal to my main window. Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks, Keith

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Pharo screencasts - how to
by laurent laffont Feb. 11, 2010

Feb. 11, 2010

Hi, I want to share how I record screencasts for Pharocasts http://pharocasts.blogspot.com/ in case someone wants to participate. Now there's 11 screencasts. The difficult part is to have a good idea / scenario for a screencast. Comments and ideas are welcome. If you want to publish on Pharocasts I can give you write access. Or if you have a "draft" screencast I can edit it / re-record it for publishing. I try to record screencasts with a minimum duration of 5 mn. These instructions are for Linux (but I'm a beginner in video stuff). I don't know which software to use on other operating systems. Have advices ? I record with xvidcap http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/. I define a capture zone of 800x600 (use 4:3 or 16:9 standard resolution. If not you can have poor encoding results). Set multi-frame mode (you have to right-click on the file button to access preferences, not very intuitive). I choose AVI format / MPEG 4 codec. If you open / close applications for the screencast, note that KDE has very good options to memorize / force windows positions, so they are always opened in your capture zone.(Other window managers like E17 have these sort of options). The trick is to not stop recording when you write errors, you can cut the "wrong" parts later. To edit the video, I use avidemux http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/. It has Qt and Gtk GUI and work on Linux / Windows / OSX / BSD ..... It's really easy to use. When you want to cut a part, you define the beginning with the A button ( Ctrl-[ ), the end with B button ( Ctrl-] ), then Edit -> Cut ( Ctrl-X ). You can navigate using arrow keys. When finished, click on save (Choose another filename !!). So now you have your screencast in .mpeg file. Note that people using MacOSX Tiger or older have problems to watch this video. So I convert in .mov using ffmpeg http://www.ffmpeg.org/ like this: ffmpeg -i my_video.mpeg -b 500k my_video.mov. (but I think it's not the best command as the video size is bigger and quality lower). To publish the video I use Vimeo http://vimeo.com/. I've tried YouTube and Daily Motion but the quality is lower or the video duration is limited. I had problems using the "standard uploader", so I switch to the "basic uploader" on the download page, works better. It's really fun to record screencasts, and a good way to show development practices. Cheers, Laurent Laffont

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