September 2014 - Pharo-users

Where pharo stores its selfies?
by Torsten Bergmann Sept. 19, 2014

Sept. 19, 2014

Offray wrote: >> I'm taking somescreenshots of Pharo using the functionality provided by Pharo itself to make this. It seems that >screenshot is properly saved, but there is no indication about where is stored. Could someone point me the place? Yes this is confusing. I opened an issue and fixed this for Pharo 4.0. See details and screenshot in: https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/14044/Selfies-shot-with-Pharo-should-give… Bye T.

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Theme : Choices : Good, but ...
by Mayuresh Kathe Sept. 19, 2014

Sept. 19, 2014

It's been close to 6 hours that I've been playing with the defaults offered with Pharo 3. Everything works so much more smoothly than Squeak! It also feels great. What's kind of problematic (as I see it) is the "look". There are 3 themes that I got with the default image; Pharo 3, Vistary and Watery. Look good, but somehow give off the feel of having more style than substance. I remember using something called Java Swing long back. It too had a plethora of themes, but the one that was the most detailed, and well designed (as in how well it worked), was something called "Java Steel". Please see the images at; http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/figures/uiswing/lookandfeel/OceanLAF… https://today.java.net/images/2004/02/laf_fig2.gif If there could be some way to have that look and feel, while adhering to the Java LaF Guidelines for the same, we might have a Pharo system which would be not only neater looking, but also lighter weight (by virtue of fewer extravagant graphical properties). Hope this suggestion isn't preposterous. :) ~Mayuresh

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Theme : Choices : Good, but ...
by Torsten Bergmann Sept. 19, 2014

Sept. 19, 2014

>If there could be some way to have that look and feel, while adhering to >the Java LaF Guidelines for the same, we might have a Pharo system which >would be not only neater looking, but also lighter weight (by virtue of >fewer extravagant graphical properties). No one wants to look like Swing... Also people would then think we do static typing ;) Bye T.

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ServerDirectory replacement
by Markus Fritsche Sept. 19, 2014

Sept. 19, 2014

Hello, I'm revisiting some old code that I started to sort my favorites on my tv settop box. I noticed that ServerDirectory is gone. I naively replaced ServerDirectory by FTPClient, but I get an error that the iv stream is nil. So I looked at the comment of FTPClient - which recommends me to look at ServerDirectory. What is the proper way to log in to a ftp server, get a file and disconnect? getHD1File: aFilename | ftpClient byteString | ftpClient := FTPClient new. ftpClient host: 'coolstream'. ftpClient loginUser: 'neutrino' password: 'holycow'. byteString := ftpClient getFileNamed: aFilename . ftpClient quit. ^ byteString => MessageNotUnderstood: receiver of "sendCommand:" is nil Kind regards, Markus

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Solution for memoization
by phil＠highoctane.be Sept. 19, 2014

Sept. 19, 2014

I saw http://www.slideshare.net/esug/memoization-aspects Do we have a memoization package based on that work? Phil

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Pharo by Example : Still usable?
by Mayuresh Kathe Sept. 19, 2014

Sept. 19, 2014

I believe "Pharo by Example" is the primary book to start-off with Pharo. A look at the Lulu.com page shows it to be from early 2010. Would it still be usable with the present version of Pharo? Thanks, ~Mayuresh

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Where pharo stores its selfies?
by offray＠riseup.net Sept. 19, 2014

Sept. 19, 2014

Hi, I'm taking somescreenshots of Pharo using the functionality provided by Pharo itself to make this. It seems that screenshot is properly saved, but there is no indication about where is stored. Could someone point me the place? Thanks, Offray

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i "am" back ...
by Mayuresh Kathe Sept. 19, 2014

Sept. 19, 2014

hello all, i had to do it. after listening to everybody's comments about my questions to the list, i went out and checked on the current state of squeak and self. looks like squeak and self definitely need a lot of attention from experienced developers and visionaries. since i don't fall squarely in either category, it would be best to work with pharo. also, as someone had mentioned, almost all smalltalk systems have diverged too much from the st-80 specification, so why not go for pharo which is so highly polished already and is being constantly improved! so here i am, back in pharo land. ~mayuresh

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Module not found in FFI
by Annick Fron Sept. 19, 2014

Sept. 19, 2014

I constantly get an error Â« module not found Â» in FFI using the latest 3.0 VM from yesterday. Yet my link does exist, and I have used that a lot of time before. Annick

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[ANN] Bootstrap V0.12.2 with vertical tabs
by Torsten Bergmann Sept. 19, 2014

Sept. 19, 2014

An updates version of Bootstrap (V0.12.2) for Seaside is available http://www.smalltalkhub.com/#!/~TorstenBergmann/Bootstrap Beside more tests it features vertical tabs which is a simple wrapper for https://github.com/dbtek/bootstrap-vertical-tabs See the online demo for Seaside to see how easy one can use them: http://pharo.pharocloud.com/bootstrap/browser/Vertical%20Tabs Bye T.

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