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Platform studies
by Rafael Luque Dec. 13, 2021

Dec. 13, 2021

Hi all. I'm enjoying reading some books of the Platform Studies series by the MIT Press (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/platform-studies) Specifically, I'm reading "The future was here" about the Amiga and "Racing the Beam" about the Atari VCS. What I like about these books is how they try to study the relationships between the hardware and software design of these computing platforms and the creative works produced on these systems. The books study these media from the technical point of view, but also deep into their social and cultural aspects. I'd like this kind of critical study about the Smalltalk platform. Do you know about any book or research in this style? Thank you. ~ Rafael Luque

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Audio Capture in Pharo
by Evan Donahue Dec. 12, 2021

Dec. 12, 2021

Hello, Does anyone know if it is currently possible to capture sound from the microphone in Pharo? I found this blog post that seemed to suggest that it wasn't possible in 2020: https://thepharo.dev/2020/11/17/how-to-play-sound-in-pharo/ Thanks, Evan

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UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Wednesday, December 29th
by Giovanni Corriga Dec. 9, 2021

Dec. 9, 2021

For our December meeting, Florin Mateoc will show us JsSqueak ( https://github.com/fmateoc/JsSqueak ), a JavaScript implementation of (JavaScript compiled) Squeak. Whereas SqueakJS or TruffleSqueak are implementations of the Squeak stack VM which run the Squeak bytecodes, JsSqueak compiles all the Squeak code to JavaScript (including the VM plugins), it exports the image state as one big JavaScript storeString, and then loads them, and runs the JavaScript implemented minimal VM (mostly primitives) and the JavaScript-translated Squeak methods as one combined JavaScript application. The compiled JavaScript application can be run either in a browser or in Node.js While JavaScript, especially with its newest additions, is a very powerful language, which allows us to implement most Smalltalk-specific features (e.g. processes/green threads are implemented using generator functions and recursive yield* for all invocations, DNU is implemented using proxies and proto manipulation, the Smalltalk parallel class hierarchy is implemented using JavaScript classes with static properties and their parallel prototypes hierarchy, weak classes are implemented using JavaScript WeakRef instances in their (weak) slots), one obvious challenge is implementing contexts. Since we compile Squeak classes to JavaScript classes, Squeak methods to JavaScript methods (and class-side Squeak methods to static JavaScript methods), the code runs on the native JavaScript call stack, and we do not have a mapping between the JavaScript function activations and reified contexts. Nevertheless, it turns out that, by providing specialized implementations for various aspects that are implemented using contexts/stack walking in Squeak, we can actually run almost all Squeak code as-is. Florin Mateoc ( https://fmateoc.js.org/ ) is an electronics engineer who has always loved programming and who has actually only ever worked as a software engineer. Florin has worked as a professional Smalltalk programmer in Enfin (later called ObjectStudio), VisualAge, VisualWorks, and a little bit as a hobbyist in Squeak. This will be an online meeting from home. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/282445345/ ) to receive the meeting details. Donât forget to bring your laptop and drinks!

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An Emacs <-> Pharo bridge (unidirectional at first)
by Eduardo Ochs Dec. 9, 2021

Dec. 9, 2021

Hi list, I'm looking for help on doing something VERY un-smalltalkish with Pharo... let me explain. I am working on several variants of this way of controlling external programs with Emacs: http://angg.twu.net/LATEX/2021emacsconf.pdf The slides - link above - are the best way to understand how it works, but there's mode info here: http://angg.twu.net/emacsconf2021.html The method above only works with programs that have REPLs that can be run in terminals, but I have some variants of it that let me send commands - single-line or multi-line - to external programs that only have GUIs. In one of these variant the external program listens to the signals SIGUSR1s and SIGUSR2s, and initially what it does when it receives these signals is: on SIGUSR1: print the contents of the file /tmp/bridge-data on SIGUSR2: eval the contents of the file /tmp/bridge-data The action of SIGUSR2 can be used to redefine the action fo SIGUSR1. There is a demo for Tcl here: http://angg.twu.net/IMAGES/2021-emacs-tcl-bridge.png http://angg.twu.net/e/tcl.e.html#2021-emacs-tcl-bridge How can I implement something similar in Pharo? I mean, how do I make it react to SIGUSR1s by printing - in any sense - the contents of /tmp/bridge-data, and react to SIGUSR2s by eval-ing the contents of /tmp/bridge-data? Thanks in advance! =) Eduardo Ochs http://angg.twu.net/#eev

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InstanceVariables
by danhunfeldz＠mail.com Dec. 9, 2021

Dec. 9, 2021

``` Object subclass: #Test instanceVariableNames: 'var1 var2' classVariableNames: '' package: 'MyTest' I was struggling with instanceVariableNames even though they show up under methods. Perhaps I'm just slow, but it wasn't until last night when I was reading on Object Pascal and there was an example: type TProjector = class(TTelevision) Brightness, Temperature: Integer; procedure Focus(Length: Single); end; Then it finally clicked with me that "var1" and "var2" under instance variables in Smalltalk would be like the method "Focus" in Object Pascal. Is that correct, or am I still not getting it? ```

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UFFI callback, getting function pointer
by tomazz.turk＠gmail.com Dec. 7, 2021

Dec. 7, 2021

Dear all, I'm constructing a rudimentary webview library for Pharo with UFFI (available here [https://github.com/eftomi/Pharo-Webview](https://github.com/eftomi/Pharo-We… "https://github.com/eftomi/Pharo-Webview")). For now, the basic things work under Windows. Iâm using âa tiny cross-platform webview libraryâ available at [https://github.com/webview/webview](https://github.com/webview/webview "https://github.com/webview/webview"). One of the functions in the dll allows to register a C function to act as a callback and that can be used as a function in javascript, which is convenient for webview presenter - main program communication. This function has the signature: ``` extern void webview_bind(webview_t w, const char *name, void (*fn)(const char *seq, const char *req, void *arg), void *arg); ``` fn is the callback function. Is there any way to make a ffiCall description of this kind of signature, where fn would be an address of the callback in Pharo? Thanks and best wishes,\ Tomaz

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[ANN] Pharo Consortium New Academic Member: LIENSs La Rochelle UniversitÃ©
by Marcus Denker Dec. 6, 2021

Dec. 6, 2021

The Pharo Consortium is very happy to announce that the LIENSs Laboratory of the UniversitÃ© La Rochelle has joined the Consortium as an Academic Member. About - Laboratoire LIENS: https://lienss.univ-larochelle.fr - Pharo Consortium: http://consortium.pharo.org The goal of the Pharo Consortium is to allow companies and institutions to support the ongoing development and future of Pharo. Individuals can support Pharo via the Pharo Association: http://association.pharo.org/

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[ANN] license selector
by HernÃ¡n Morales Durand Dec. 6, 2021

Dec. 6, 2021

Hi everyone, Today I released license-selector, a little Pharo Spec based application to browse available licenses from the SPDX list (Software Package Data Exchange, an open standard now published as ISO). It is also possible to get updates for new licenses and export the license text to a file. https://github.com/hernanmd/license-selector Enjoy, HernÃ¡n

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[ANN] Launchpad v4.2.0 [v4.2.0] released!
by Buenos Aires Smalltalk Dec. 6, 2021

Dec. 6, 2021

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Pharo Graphs
by Sebastian Jordan Montano Dec. 3, 2021

Dec. 3, 2021

Hello everybody, We are happy to announce that we have a brand new library for graphs algorithms in Pharo! We have implemented some of the most-know graph algorithms like: Dijkstra, Tarjan, BFS, Kruskal, Topological Sort, and more. Here is the GitHub repository: [ https://github.com/pharo-ai/graph-algorithms | https://github.com/pharo-ai/graph-algorithms ] Also, we wrote a booklet for the ones interested in graph theory in the computer science context. In the booklet, we explain how the algorithms work, the logic behind them, and the Pharo implementation. Also, we show in which real-life scenarios they can be applied. Here is the booklet link: [ https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/Booklet-PharoGraphs | https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/Booklet-PharoGraphs ] (there is the link of pdf on the README). We are interested in any kind of feedback! Thanks, Sebastian Jordan

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