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

[ANN] Spec documentation in PFTE book finished
by Johan Fabry Jan. 2, 2015

Jan. 2, 2015

Hi all, I am happy to announce that Ben and I finished the documentation of Spec for the Pharo For The Enterprise book. This documentation is up-to-date with the latest version of Spec, and is focused towards people wanting to use it and even extend it (in contrast to the academic papers which are â¦ academic ;-) ). I hope that this text will help all the people that are building UIs in Pharo, and it will clear up any doubts that they may have. The chapter is available in source form from the GitHub project of the PFTE book: https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/PharoForTheEnterprise-english The easiest way to read the chapter is from the continuous integration server, which produces a html file of the chapter here: https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/PharoForTheEnterprise/lastSucces… (The same server also produces pdf and markdown files, but there are some strange artifacts there, currently. I guess this will be cleared up in the future) We tried our best to make it understandable and complete, but if you have any doubts or comments please do not hesitate to let us know !! Ben prefers Github apparently, but if you are oldskool like me you can also send a mail (privately or to the mailing list). Now it's time to build some cool user interfaces! :-) ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile

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Accessing DLLs in Smalltalk/V
by Bob Williams Aug. 9, 2014

Aug. 9, 2014

I found an old Smalltalk/V imagine from 2000 and tracked down how I was able add calls to Windows DLLs and to add my own. It was in the class DynamicLinkLibrary and its subclasses, e. g., a call to the GDIDLL to draw a Bezier spline (which I believe I added) was: bezierTo: hDC lpPoints: anLPPOINT count: anInt <api: PolyBezierTo ulong struct ulong boolean> ^self invalidArgument I added by own DLL to do matrix transformations that was written in ASSEMBLER to optimized the floating point processor pipelining (a start operation every cycle while it took 3 cycles to complete) and it performed about 15% better. I have not found anything similar in Pharo, but it must if external libraries are used. NativeBoost seems to come close, but I cannot find any documentation. Can someone point me to some documentation, code, anything? It is greatly appreciated. bw

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Xcode's Swift Playground
by darrinm Aug. 5, 2014

Aug. 5, 2014

This is the sort of thing Smalltalk seems well suited for (live coding w/ value and iteration display). Does anyone know of something like it that has been done before in Smalltalk? I don't have a good link to a demonstration purely of the Playground but there is a little info here: https://developer.apple.com/swift/ -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Xcode-s-Swift-Playground-tp4761425.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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functions keys
by Pablo R. Digonzelli June 30, 2014

June 30, 2014

After exploring the image I believe functions keys (F1,F2, etc ) are not handling by KeyboardEvent class. I think it is very common use that function keys in business applications. Someone know if i am true about this topic? . Or maybe someone handling functions keys in an application? TIA Ing. Pablo Digonzelli Software Solutions IP-Solutiones SRL Metrotec SRL 25 de Mayo 521 Email: pdigonzelli(a)softsargentina.com pdigonzelli(a)gmail.com Cel: 5493815982714

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numeric pad
by Pablo R. Digonzelli June 30, 2014

June 30, 2014

i actualized the vm for linux , but numeric pad of keyboard does not work. The keys are captured (exists KeboardEvent ) but the keys are not displaying in workspace for example. TIA Ing. Pablo Digonzelli Software Solutions IP-Solutiones SRL Metrotec SRL 25 de Mayo 521 Email: pdigonzelli(a)softsargentina.com pdigonzelli(a)gmail.com Cel: 5493815982714

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Modulecounts (and Smalltalkhub)
by Esteban A. Maringolo June 30, 2014

June 30, 2014

http://modulecounts.com/ shows npm (node.js package manager) surpassed Java MavenCentral count of modules, and it is the fastest growing package manager. Though Pharo won't be up there anytime soon, the "1640 repositories" reported by SmalltalkHub's explore page are more than the PHP Pear count. And even when SH is not a module repository, it has a minimum volume worth mentioning there. Is there a public API of SmalltalkHub from where to pull this historic information? Esteban A. Maringolo

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caturing key pressed
by Pablo R. Digonzelli June 30, 2014

June 30, 2014

Hi all , I need to capture the key pressed in a Spec TextModel and ListModel. Can someone give orientation? TIA Ing. Pablo Digonzelli Software Solutions IP-Solutiones SRL Metrotec SRL 25 de Mayo 521 Email: pdigonzelli(a)softsargentina.com pdigonzelli(a)gmail.com Cel: 5493815982714

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image crash
by Pablo R. Digonzelli June 30, 2014

June 30, 2014

My image is crashing an close suddendly. In Nautilus right-click menu does not work. In order to start on a new image i need to fileout my classes by code not by menu. My question is how can i fileout a class from the workspace ? TIA Ing. Pablo Digonzelli Software Solutions IP-Solutiones SRL Metrotec SRL 25 de Mayo 521 Email: pdigonzelli(a)softsargentina.com pdigonzelli(a)gmail.com Cel: 5493815982714

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Supporting deep into pharo
by stepharo June 30, 2014

June 30, 2014

Hi! Maybe one of Deep into Pharoâs reader can write a review on: http://www.amazon.com/Deep-into-Pharo-Alexandre-Bergel/dp/3952334162 This will help everybody by promoting our favorite language... Cheers, Alexandre -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.

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[New] academic partner program
by stepharo June 30, 2014

June 30, 2014

Dear Friends The Pharo consortium http://consortium.pharo.org is launching a new program in direction to academic partners: teachers, Universities and research institutes. We realized that the advantages/duties to be an academic member were unclear. We really want to build a strong community. http://files.pharo.org/consortium/Membership%20Agreement%20for%20Academic%2… Here are the key facts extracted from the documentation. Here are the main advantages as an academic partner: - Direct access to Pharo core developers via an automatic subscription to a specific mailing list. - Access to Pharo documents and courses. - Its logo posted on the Pharo Website Academic pages. - The possibility to propose and participate in actions. Here are the main duties (which you are already doing) - Put a link to Pharo Consortium Website from its institutional website. - When using Pharo to teach, create web pages with document courses related to Pharo. - Provide Inria with an annual report of at most half a page of its actions to promote and sustain Pharo. As member of the Pharo Consortium, the Academic Partner shall make its best efforts to: - Give courses on Pharo or related topics to its students - Participate to the development of open source software libraries in Pharo - Participate to selected Pharo mailing lists : pharo-dev(a)lists.pharo.org and/or pharo-users(a)lists.pharo.org - Participate in the authoring of open-source books on Pharo and related topics. So we really hope that you will register and help us making Pharo grow and be a really cool and friendly ecosystem. The Pharo Board.

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