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[squeak-dev] Daily Commit Log

commits@... — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:55:10 GMT

Changes to Trunk (http://source.squeak.org/trunk.html) in the last 24 hours: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/packages/2009-November/001840.html

How people learn (was Re: [squeak-dev] Squeak screencasts)

Randal L. Schwartz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:21:25 GMT

... Bert> Many younger folks prefer videos to written documentation. I don't know that you need to bring age into this. :) What I've learned after decades of

Re: [squeak-dev] Squeak screencasts

Bert Freudenberg — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:13:13 GMT

... Many younger folks prefer videos to written documentation. Like, a couple months back my teenager learned how to solve Rubik's Cube - because a class mate

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Menu structure (Re: The Trunk: System-mha.167.m

Eliot Miranda — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:35:28 GMT

... Sounds better. Just as long as support for tiny displays is kept! ... On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Balázs Kósi < rebmekop@... > wrote: Hi, ...

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Menu structure (Re: The Trunk: System-mha.167.m

Balázs Kósi — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:45:55 GMT

Hi, ... Or we could have a separate widget set for tiny displays, and a TinyMorphicProject using those widgets. Or something like that, but not branching all

Re: [squeak-dev] Squeak screencasts

Eliot Miranda — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:44:44 GMT

... I can not disagree more. Which do you prefer, this? http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2119529,00.asp or this?

Re: [squeak-dev] Squeak screencasts

Eliot Miranda — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:43:36 GMT

... I can not disagree more. Which do you prefer, this? http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2119529,00.asp or this?

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Menu structure (Re: The Trunk: System-mha.167.m

Eliot Miranda — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:33:02 GMT

... Keep tinyDisplay and tailor the responses to it to favour iPod & iPhone size screens. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Balázs Kósi < rebmekop@... >

Re: [squeak-dev] Menu bar (was: The Trunk: Morphic-kb.240.mcz)

Bert Freudenberg — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:54:54 GMT

... The problem is that blocks are early-bound and opaque. You basically can't do anything with them except evaluating. Here is what your updater block looks

Re: [squeak-dev] Menu bar (was: The Trunk: Morphic-kb.240.mcz)

Igor Stasenko — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:07:51 GMT

... +1 the only problem with blocks, that they capturing all state (context, receiver, temps etc), required to run. And you can't replace the target as you may

Re: [squeak-dev] Menu bar (was: The Trunk: Morphic-kb.240.mcz)

Balázs Kósi — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:42:03 GMT

Hi, ... Doesn't the new closure blocks mitigate those problems? Can you elaborate a bit? Blocks are so much more convenient. ... It don't think that this was

[squeak-dev] Seaside Installation Instructions

Chris Cunnington — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:39:06 GMT

Seaside Installation Instructions Welcome to the Squeak page for installing the Seaside web framework. This page will show you how to install two different

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: support of various line ends in trunk

Igor Stasenko — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:49:52 GMT

... That's the point, you don't wanna see individual line ends. The only situation where you care is when you saving text into the file. But this makes

Re: [squeak-dev] Squeak screencasts

Bert Freudenberg — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:32:37 GMT

... Yes yes yes all right, if I ever do a screencast again I'll try making something uploadable to vimeo or wherever. What I used was just incredibly simple

Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Menu structure (Re: The Trunk: System-mha.167.m

Balázs Kósi — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:30:30 GMT

Hi, ... I added a preamble to Morphic(-kb.241) to unsubscribe TheWorldMainDockingBar from SystemChangeNotifier. Now TheWorldMainDockingBar initialize updates