August 2012 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

funny idea Symbol vs. Selector
by stephane ducasse May 14, 2015

May 14, 2015

Hi guys I'm thinking aloud... I was wondering if we could not take advantage of a new class: Selector. MethodDict would only contain selectors and not symbols. I remember that I talked about that with hernan. Stef

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Postmark email library
by Francois Stephany Aug. 31, 2013

Aug. 31, 2013

Hi guys, I've made a simple wrapper around the Postmark API. It lets you send emails without dealing with a SMTP server. You can read about it here: http://developer.postmarkapp.com/developer-libs.html http://developer.postmarkapp.com/developer-build.html and there: http://articles.tulipemoutarde.be/send-email-from-pharo-with-postmark It's pretty simple and naive implementation but it gets the job done. I'll add email attachements when I will need it. Francois

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Package browser?
by Rob Vens June 28, 2013

June 28, 2013

I am attempting to do the Pharo by Example book, but a package browser (which is used in the examples) is not in the 1.1.1 or 1.2 image. Should I still use categories? If I create a package in Monticello browser I am not able to add classes or anything (not as far as I could see). Just starting out using Pharo, so apologies if these questions are already answered elsewhere.

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FFI basics..
by S Krish Sept. 28, 2012

Sept. 28, 2012

* How does FFI work for passing a char* argument that gets modified in the invoked module char* ctest ( char* test , char** test2) { test = "Modify this argument"; // loop and fill in data into test2 and return.. return "something else"; } ctest: test <cdecl: char* 'ctest' ( char* , long ) module: 'libctest'> So invoking this with say ExternalAddress allocate: **, gives us the values as modified by the module.. and be converted as required into ByteArray for the second

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Zinc crashes an image.
by Paul DeBruicker Sept. 25, 2012

Sept. 25, 2012

Hi - I'm pretty sure I'm having the same problem Phillipe had/described in this message: http://forum.world.st/Zinc-crashing-image-at-start-up-td3785797.html At least the PharoDebug.log is the same. It happens on both the most recent Cog and interpreter VM. Is there a way to recover from this? I could follow Sean's instructions from this thread if necessary: http://forum.world.st/Fwd-Oops-I-put-a-halt-in-a-startup-method-td3800729.h… Or is there a way to extract changes from a changes file for one image into another image? I'd rather fix the broken image but if its not possible I'd then just try to load those changes I don't have. Thanks for any guidance you can provide. Paul

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Pharo usage poll
by Esteban Lorenzano Sept. 20, 2012

Sept. 20, 2012

Hi guys, I created a small poll to know which versions of pharo are you using and with which purpose... can you be so kind and fill the form? is really small and can provide some insights about further directions :) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dFZKeXU… Thanks, Esteban

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GemSource, seaside.gemstone.com, SS3 MAINTENANCE Saturday June 9 from 10am-2pm PDT
by Dale Henrichs Sept. 11, 2012

Sept. 11, 2012

Maintenance is scheduled for this Saturday and according to the internal announcement no downtime is anticipated: The work is considered low risk and no downtime is anticipated, this is being sent out as a courtesy. If you experience problems on Saturday, don't hesitate to send email. Dale

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Pharo 2.0 + Seaside
by Chris Sept. 7, 2012

Sept. 7, 2012

I would love to start using Pharo 2.0 but really need Seaside to be working. I'm assuming from what I've read that it is possible, but got some issues such as BlockContext missing, references to OmniBrowser, something about loading Metacello and when it finished there were 39 failures/errors in the tests. This was just from loading from the configuration browser in a fresh 2.0 image. Is there a better way? I like the look of the new system browser so far but it has felt a little sluggish in places. I hope this improves as I almost don't want to go back to OmniBrowser now :-) Cheers Chris

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Zinc-HTTP-Deprecated
by Sven Van Caekenberghe Sept. 5, 2012

Sept. 5, 2012

There is a class category called 'Zinc-HTTP-Deprecated'. It contains some old classes that were replaced/superceded by newer ones almost a year ago. I plan to actually delete these and their unit tests in a commit in the next couple of days. Specifically, the following classes will be removed: - ZnClientOld - ZnFixedClient - ZnExtendedFixedClient - ZnUserAgent - ZnHttpClient - ZnUserAgentSettings I hope nobody uses these anymore. Sven -- Sven Van Caekenberghe http://stfx.eu Smalltalk is the Red Pill

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Sound in 1.4 or 2.0?
by Bernat Romagosa Sept. 3, 2012

Sept. 3, 2012

Hi list, Is it possible to get sound working in either 1.4 or 2.0? In 2.0 almost all sound-related classes seem to have disappeared from the library, in 1.4 they haven't, but even copying the Scratch alsa (or OSS) plugin and running the image with the correct plugin parameters doesn't work for me. I asked this question before, but got no answer. Anybody else interested in working with sound in Pharo? Thanks! Bernat. p.s. I'm using Debian. -- Bernat Romagosa.

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