April 2013 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

Software Integration Survey
by Martin Dias April 22, 2013

April 22, 2013

Hi all, We are conducting an academic research to improve tools for software integration. If you maintain a project with multiple contributors, we will greatly appreciate your participation. Your answers will be used for research purposes and to support the development of new tools. You can later access the results of this study, make free use of our tools to support the integration of changes, and maybe receive a gift. https://sondages.inria.fr/index.php/667625/lang-en Best regards, MartÃn Dias, Nicolas Anquetil, VerÃ³nica Isabel Uquillas, StÃ©phane Ducasse and the RMOD Inria team

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GSoC: more mentors wanted
by Janko MivÅ¡ek April 20, 2013

April 20, 2013

Dear Pharoers, We have quite nice projects, but mentors are still missing: http://gsoc2013.esug.org/projects http://gsoc2013.esug.org/mentors Look for projects without mentors and if you are interested, register on the site, go to the project and click Edit in the grayed area and choose yourself as a mentor. Same goes for the second mentor. Look around for such projects, offer the main mentor a help and if he agrees, put yourself on that project. That way you will influence the projects and therefore the whole Smalltalk the best possible way! What's difference between mentor and second mentor? Mentor is responsible for a project and student through the whole project lifecycle, while second mentor is officially to replace the main mentor in a case he cannot be mentor for any reasons anymore, but unofficially second mentor also helps the main mentor working on the project. There is only one main and only one second mentor possible. So please, anyone interested look at the projects and volunteer for mentorship. By replying to me or Serge, or to the current potential mentors. Best regards Janko -- Janko MivÅ¡ek Smalltalk GSoC Admin Team http://gsoc2013.esug.org

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Spec Font Size
by Sean P. DeNigris April 20, 2013

April 20, 2013

How would I change the font size in a TextInputFieldModel ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Spec-Font-Size-tp4682677.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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TextInputFieldModel Scrollbars
by Sean P. DeNigris April 20, 2013

April 20, 2013

My Spec UI has a TextInputFieldModel, which at one point had text that was much too large to show at once. I expected scroll bars, but none appeared. Is there a way to turn them on? Ideally they'd appear automatically when necessary... Thanks! ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/TextInputFieldModel-Scrollbars-tp4682447.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Pharo-users] TextInputFieldModel Scrollbars
by Stephan Eggermont April 19, 2013

April 19, 2013

Ben wrote: >Comments ? in Morphic ? Mouahahah :) >;) ((PackageOrganizer default packages select: [ :package |package packageName beginsWith: 'Morphic' ]) collect: [ :package | package methods collect: [ :meth | meth compiledMethod comment ] ] )flatten asSet size 2169 Stephan :)

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files.pharo.org: Moving to new server
by Marcus Denker April 19, 2013

April 19, 2013

Hi, We will change the DNS to a new server. This should be transparent, but of course we never knowâ¦ Stages: 1) Change DNS to point to new server of (TODAY) files.pharo.org get.pharo.org updates.pharo.org 2) Change DNS Server from NameCheap to new provider (TOMORROW) (this will speed up DNS queries ;-) 3) enable CDN for the static files. (NEXT WEEK) Marcus and Camillo

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Downloading text vs. binary
by Sean P. DeNigris April 19, 2013

April 19, 2013

Zinc seems to think the following is text, but if I download it via Chrome on my Mac, it recognizes it as binary: | latestVersionUrl | latestVersionUrl := 'http://mirrors.jenkins-ci.org/war/latest/jenkins.war'. ZnClient new accept: ZnMimeType applicationOctetStream; url: latestVersionUrl; downloadTo: directory. ----- Cheers, Sean -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Downloading-text-vs-binary-tp4682396.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Ho to spare a Pharo desktop application user from seeing the debugger?
by MartinW April 18, 2013

April 18, 2013

I deploy a Pharo desktop application and i want to spare the user from seeing the debugger, because most users would not know what to do with it. My solution for the moment is to place an [] on: Exception do: [] around my application's entrance point: [ "main application workflow" ] on: Exception do: [ self inform: 'Something has gone wrong...'. "and restart application"] Do you think, this an acceptable solution? Are there others? M. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Ho-to-spare-a-Pharo-desktop-application-user-from-see… Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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The Rationale behind Spec - questions
by Kenneth Payne April 17, 2013

April 17, 2013

As a newcomer to smalltalk and Pharo I must say I love it - but I'm a little mystified by Spec. Just as I've got my head around Polymorph and can build an interface with UITheme builder, the paradigm has changed and Spec is the new standard way to create a UI. I read on a post that Polymorph is a UI framework but Spec is a UI description framework. But Spec isn't just a description like a XML representation of a UI - it brings new UI objects to the party - ButtonModel, LabelModel etc. But none of these have the rich properties of the corresponding Morphic objects. A ButtonModel looks nothing like a button, for example, and the LabelModel has nothing to set a font for the label. And it's not a description it's just more code. The only way I can see to create a rich interface using Spec is to create the interface using Morphs (and composite Morphs) and then using Spec mainly just to assemble and position them. So can someone wiser than I answer these questions for me: One, what is the purpose of Spec - what problem is it trying to solve? Two, what advantages are there to building a UI in Spec rather than building it directly in Polymorph? Three, why are the objects caled ButtonModel, LableModel etc when they are not models but UI components? Four, am I supposed to be assembling morphs using Spec? It works so is it right? To sum up, I'm quite sure Spec is an important new feature but at the moment I'm just not getting it. Can anyone help me on this?

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Fwd: [Sprint] Sprint Lille May 3rd
by Marcus Denker April 17, 2013

April 17, 2013

Begin forwarded message: > From: Marcus Denker <marcus.denker(a)inria.fr> > Subject: [Sprint] Sprint Lille May 3rd > Date: April 17, 2013 1:12:29 PM GMT+02:00 > To: "Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr ML" <Pharo-project(a)lists.gforge.inria.fr> > > Hi, > > We are planning a sprint the 3rd of May: > > http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/blog/2013-04-17 > > When? Friday May 3 > Where? Inria Lille Building B, RMoD Offices > > If you want to join, please send a mail so we can plan and open the > door for you. > > Marcus > > > >

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