October 2014 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

Re: [Pharo-users] [Ann] Phratch 4.0

by Hilaire Fernandes

Le 20/10/2014 10:36, jannik laval a Ã©crit : > So, Hilaire, if you have some times to test the two firmware or if you > are using one on Pharo, or if you have any knowledge to share. It will > be really fast to make something work. > > Thank you again for yoour feedback and Ihope you can help me for Arduino. > Hello Jannik, My knowledge is very limited on the matter and I am in a prospective state investigating what I can do with an Arduino board with students, so I will be of no help, beside testing. Hilaire -- Dr. Geo - http://drgeo.eu iStoa - http://istoa.drgeo.eu

Oct. 20, 2014

Re: [Pharo-users] [Ann] Phratch 4.0

by jannik laval

Hi Hilaire, 2014-10-19 10:08 GMT+02:00 Hilaire <hilaire(a)drgeo.eu>: > Le 19/10/2014 08:38, jannik laval a Ã©crit : > > About the Arduino, it is a first try I did, but it seems to not working > > well. > > If you want to make it usable: just create a new sprite, you will have > > the choice of a standard sprite and an arduino one. > > Choose the arduino, and the blocks will appear. > > I have an arduino board I want to try. Do you know if > Linux+Pratch+Arduino is a working team? > I am sure that phratch+Arduino does not work well. Then about Linux, I think it is not a problem. I added JosÃ© Manuel Ruiz in cc. He asked me if I can make Arduino work on Phratch and we have some problems. First of all, I am using the Firmata firmware. There is a bridge between Squeak and Firmata that I took and adapt on Pharo. I can take some values from analog port, but not digital. Now I have 2 problems: - I have not enough knowledge about Arduino to understand what is wrong: Phratch only use the API, and I am not sure the API works well. - For now, I am using the Firmata firmware but we could use the s4a firmware (http://s4a.cat/) We have to test. So, Hilaire, if you have some times to test the two firmware or if you are using one on Pharo, or if you have any knowledge to share. It will be really fast to make something work. Thank you again for yoour feedback and Ihope you can help me for Arduino. Cheers, Jannik > > > > > -- > Dr. Geo - http://drgeo.eu > iStoa - http://istoa.drgeo.eu > > > -- ~~Jannik Laval~~ Ãcole des Mines de Douai Enseignant-chercheur http://www.jannik-laval.eu http://www.phratch.com http://www.approchealpes.info http://car.mines-douai.fr/

Oct. 20, 2014

Re: [Pharo-users] [Ann] Phratch 4.0

by jannik laval

Hi Hilaire, Which version of Linux are you using ? Thank you again for your feedback. Here is my comments for your list: - On Linux, keypad does not work >>> Ok, the last build of the vm I use is from 5 month ! I redo it, it should work today. By the way, keypad does not work on pharo-launcher too. - for me, the font characters in the bricks are too small >> you can change it in settings. Then in settings Phratch click on the button launch to refresh the display. - the robot, has a non transparent white background, I tried to edit it but the sprite I have is of too low resolution to make something clean >>> I don't understand. I have a transparent background. But I saw a bug: When I edit it, the background become white. I fixed it. - some tools in the paint dialogue are mostly invisible (see screenshot) >>> Yes, they is a strange behavior here. Sometimes it works, sometimes there is this crappy green color... I tried again to fix it. We will see what happen. The point is to clean all this part of Phratch, If there are volunteers :) - preview and loading of JPG background does not work (see screenshot fileDialog) On my Ubuntu 14.04 it works fine. - the file dialog dropdown list arrow is shifted vertically (see screenshot fileDialog) >>>fixed - in the file dialogue to load a previously saved project, the author nor description are displayed (screenshot filedialog project). >>> I open a bug entry. It will be fixed in next version. - I load the the Arduino add-on, I have a new Arduino category but no brick. I will answer in another mail. All these changes are currently building. It will be available today, or tomorrow. Cheers, Jannik 2014-10-18 16:41 GMT+02:00 Hilaire <hilaire(a)drgeo.eu>: > Thanks! > > A few points worth mentioning. > > - On Linux, keypad does not work > - for me, the font characters in the bricks are too small > - the robot, has a non transparent white background, I tried to edit it > but the sprite I have is of too low resolution to make something clean > - some tools in the paint dialogue are mostly invisible (see screenshot) > - preview and loading of JPG background does not work (see screenshot > fileDialog) > - the file dialog dropdown list arrow is shifted vertically (see > screenshot fileDialog) > - in the file dialogue to load a previously saved project, the author > nor description are displayed (screenshot filedialog project). > - I load the the Arduino add-on, I have a new Arduino category but no > brick. > > Hilaire > > > > Le 17/10/2014 11:48, jannik laval a Ã©crit : > > hratch 4.0 is out of the box ! > > > > Phratch 4.0 is cleaner, faster and more stable than phratch 3.0. > > > > After the version 3.0 that was a release for usability and stability, > > phratch 4.0 is released to prepare the future. > > > > > -- > Dr. Geo - http://drgeo.eu > iStoa - http://istoa.drgeo.eu > -- ~~Jannik Laval~~ Ãcole des Mines de Douai Enseignant-chercheur http://www.jannik-laval.eu http://www.phratch.com http://www.approchealpes.info http://car.mines-douai.fr/

Oct. 20, 2014

Re: [Pharo-users] GUI Frameworks Choice

by Craig

From: stepharo >Hi craig > >The examples are in the class WidgetExample or ExampleWidget. Now we are not happy from a design point of view of having all these widgets creation on UITheme. >You can also use Spec. There is a draft of chapters on https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/PharoForTheEnterprise/838/artifa… > >Stef Thanks Stef, this documentation will make it lot easier to use Spec. Craig

Oct. 20, 2014

[ANN] Dr. Geo 14.10

by Hilaire

Hello, Dr. Geo 14.10, the Pharo interactive geometry application, was released a couple of weeks ago. - Detailed change log at https://launchpad.net/drgeo/trunk/14.10 - Download http://drgeo.eu Thanks to read Hilaire -- Dr. Geo - http://drgeo.eu iStoa - http://istoa.drgeo.eu

Oct. 19, 2014

[ANN] JNIPort documentation moves to new web site

by Joachim Geidel

Dear all, so far, the documentation of JNIPort, the Smalltalk library for calling Java code from Smalltalk, has been hosted on a wiki at http://jniport.wikispaces.com. Unfortunately, Wikispaces has decided to stop their offer to host free wikis unless they meet their definition of âeducationalâ. This means that the JNIPort wiki at Wikispaces will be deleted soon, but not before Nov 14, 2014. Therefore, I have moved the contents of the wiki to a new location: https://sites.google.com/site/jniport/ Please update your bookmarks. I will update the links in package comments and documentation as soon as possible, and upload new versions of JNIPort to the Cincom Public Store Repository and SmalltalkHub. This will probably happen when both Pharo 4 and VisualWorks 8.0 Non-Commercial have been released, and the upcoming version 3.0 of JNIPort is compatible with both of them. Best regards Joachim Geidel ---- My OpenPGP Key: 29F88108 available from hkp://keys.gnupg.net

Oct. 19, 2014

Re: [Pharo-users] [Ann] Phratch 4.0

by Hilaire

Le 19/10/2014 08:38, jannik laval a Ã©crit : > About the Arduino, it is a first try I did, but it seems to not working > well. > If you want to make it usable: just create a new sprite, you will have > the choice of a standard sprite and an arduino one. > Choose the arduino, and the blocks will appear. I have an arduino board I want to try. Do you know if Linux+Pratch+Arduino is a working team? > For the keypad, it is strange. Does it work on Pharo ? I am not sure > phratch changes this kind of behavior. Yes, there was a coming in/out bug about that with the Pharo VM for Linux. So it looks like the VM you are using for Linux has this bug. Hilaire -- Dr. Geo - http://drgeo.eu iStoa - http://istoa.drgeo.eu

Oct. 19, 2014

new Pharo Success story

by stepharo

Hi we just published a new success story: Pharo at CSOB http://pharo.org/success And yes we are interested in your sucess stories Stef PS: big thanks to Tomas and CSOB for letting us making this public.

Oct. 19, 2014

Re: [Pharo-users] [Ann] Phratch 4.0

by jannik laval

Thank you Hilaire for the feedback. I will fix that asap and release a new phratch 4. About the Arduino, it is a first try I did, but it seems to not working well. If you want to make it usable: just create a new sprite, you will have the choice of a standard sprite and an arduino one. Choose the arduino, and the blocks will appear. For the keypad, it is strange. Does it work on Pharo ? I am not sure phratch changes this kind of behavior. For the rest, I am sure to fix that in the week. Cheers 2014-10-18 16:41 GMT+02:00 Hilaire <hilaire(a)drgeo.eu>: > Thanks! > > A few points worth mentioning. > > - On Linux, keypad does not work > - for me, the font characters in the bricks are too small > - the robot, has a non transparent white background, I tried to edit it > but the sprite I have is of too low resolution to make something clean > - some tools in the paint dialogue are mostly invisible (see screenshot) > - preview and loading of JPG background does not work (see screenshot > fileDialog) > - the file dialog dropdown list arrow is shifted vertically (see > screenshot fileDialog) > - in the file dialogue to load a previously saved project, the author > nor description are displayed (screenshot filedialog project). > - I load the the Arduino add-on, I have a new Arduino category but no > brick. > > Hilaire > > > > Le 17/10/2014 11:48, jannik laval a Ã©crit : > > hratch 4.0 is out of the box ! > > > > Phratch 4.0 is cleaner, faster and more stable than phratch 3.0. > > > > After the version 3.0 that was a release for usability and stability, > > phratch 4.0 is released to prepare the future. > > > > > -- > Dr. Geo - http://drgeo.eu > iStoa - http://istoa.drgeo.eu > -- ~~Jannik Laval~~ Ãcole des Mines de Douai Enseignant-chercheur http://www.jannik-laval.eu http://www.phratch.com http://www.approchealpes.info http://car.mines-douai.fr/

Oct. 19, 2014

Re: [Pharo-users] [Ann] Phratch 4.0

by Alain Busser

They are *really* lazy, to the point that nothing can make them work (at all, for example they never do their homework). But as they never work, they are often punished and as their teacher I have to give them some extra work during the punishments so I will give them this kind of "punishment". Besides, when one of them understands that it is the only way to have a software in reunionese creole maybe it will give them some energy, we can still dream... On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Hilaire <hilaire(a)drgeo.eu> wrote: > Le 17/10/2014 14:26, Alain Busser a Ã©crit : > > they are too lazy to "create the future") I will try to give the job to > > some who will be punished, as I will have to give them some work... > > And what about their names to be published as contributors? Will they > not be proud of it? > > Hilaire > > -- > Dr. Geo - http://drgeo.eu > iStoa - http://istoa.drgeo.eu > > >

Oct. 18, 2014