[Pharo-users] Key language differences with VW2.5

Hi all, I'm dealing with some VW2.5 code i want to read/port/rewrite. Are there any key syntactical/semantical differences one should be aware of? Thank you!

Re: [Pharo-users] Setting GUI pointer's position

I'll try to dig into some suggestions found in your link... On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Matthieu Lacaton < matthieu.laca...@gmail.com> wrote: > I meant 1. > I don't know if you can hide the active hand but I don't think so :s > > 2015-06-29 16:42 GMT+02:00

Re: [Pharo-users] Setting GUI pointer's position

find how to move the active hand but you > can create another one and move this one. > I don't know if it will be useful for you though. > > Cheers, > > Matthieu > > 2015-06-29 16:22 GMT+02:00 Laura Risani : > >> How can i programmatically set the GUI pointer&

[Pharo-users] Setting GUI pointer's position

How can i programmatically set the GUI pointer's position? I've tried World currentHand position:20@20. World activeHand position:20@20. but didn't work.

Re: [Pharo-users] Displaying an image from a file

(JPEGReadWriter on: in) nextImage ] ] ] > > Seaside has file library objects that store images and other resources as > methods. > > > On 27 Jun 2015, at 17:15, Laura Risani wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > How can i make a morph display an image from a

[Pharo-users] Displaying an image from a file

Hi all, How can i make a morph display an image from a file at my hd? How can i further "save" this image inside a class so to be ported via packages? Thanks, Laura

[Pharo-users] Boardician update

Hi all, Made an update, main changes : added BgMines game, added dual arrow/keyboard pointing support (try BgMines), refactored BGHuman and it's subclasses, displaying the menu pauses the game, redesigned the menu. Any feedback is welcome. In particular functionalities to add, games to implement,

Re: [Pharo-users] Pointer drawing method?

t; > El mar., 26 de may. de 2015 a la(s) 7:19 p. m., Laura Risani < > laura.ris...@gmail.com> escribió: > >> I've just came to say i'd found #arrowPrototype. Thanks Ben ! >> >> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Ben Coman wrote: >> >>> On We

Re: [Pharo-users] Pointer drawing method?

I've just came to say i'd found #arrowPrototype. Thanks Ben ! On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Ben Coman wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Laura Risani > wrote: > > Hi all, > > Is there a method that returns a diagonal arrow like the ambient's > po

[Pharo-users] Pointer drawing method?

Hi all, Is there a method that returns a diagonal arrow like the ambient's pointer? Best, Laura

Re: [Pharo-users] Image growing size

Nice! On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Sean P. DeNigris wrote: > laura wrote > > Also the discussion brought up very interesting msg collaborations > > snippets > > and system features for future reference! > > I compiled them at > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-core/wiki/Memory-Hogs > >

[Pharo-users] Package for building class diagrams

Hi all, Is there any package to build class diagrams? I've seen one somewhere but can't remember where. Any other tool / diagram type you find useful as visual support for the description of a system? Best, Laura

[Pharo-users] Test to fix first

Hi all, Made a little extension of method TestSuite>>run in order to print to the Transcript a suggested test to fix first among the failing ones. Logic is based on comment in "Modeling Examples to Test and Understand Software" ( http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/Supervised.html ). Run test TestResul

Re: [Pharo-users] Opening SettingBrowser on custom settings

Mmmm, the second option takes for me a while to open, i'll try using the first option adding an argument to the pragma. On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Laura Risani wrote: > Hi Alain , hi Nicolai, thank you for your answers. > In fact what i need is to parametrically show all setting

Re: [Pharo-users] Opening SettingBrowser on custom settings

Hi Alain , hi Nicolai, thank you for your answers. In fact what i need is to parametrically show all settings i defined on a package, so i'll do the second. On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Nicolai Hess wrote: > > > 2015-04-08 18:34 GMT+02:00 Laura Risani : > >> Hi all,

[Pharo-users] Opening SettingBrowser on custom settings

Hi all, Say that i wanted to open a SettingBrowser showing only the settings defined by 'SystemSystemSettings class >> systemSettingOn:' . How could i do that? There is a method 'SettingBrowser >> browse:' . Based on it's comment i tried adding to systemSettingOn: the pragma , and then sending '

Re: [Pharo-users] [Pharo-dev] [ANN] New service: The Pharo catalog

Very cool! This is something i've read many people saying they wanted to have. I found the quite visibly placed link 'a note to developers' very useful and will add the explained methods to my projects. Seems that the existence of #catalogDescription is not as known as the practice of defining a 'C

Re: [Pharo-users] Cormas Pharo Port v0.2 available

Seems very interesting! Thank you for sharing it! On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 4:42 AM, Serge Stinckwich wrote: > Thank you Alex, for trying to dl CORMAS. > > Yes, I fix the problem. Should work now ;-) > > BTW, this is really difficult to understand the problem because when a > dependancy is missing,

Re: [Pharo-users] Porting Voss to Pharo

VOSS seems quite an interesting and useful technology. Is know for sure that it could be ported without disturbing Pharo opensourceness / freeness? Is anyone doing work to port it? On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Ben Coman wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 6:07 AM, Stephan Eggermont > wrot

Re: [Pharo-users] Uncommon keyboard shortcuts on Windows

I forget to mention close-tab shortcut (ctrl+w) which is common to Windows. I agree (in case you tacitly said so) keyboard shortcuts are really important for usability and i agree select-all is really important. Related to this, there is a select-word shortcut (alt+space) which selects the word th

Re: [Pharo-users] Uncommon keyboard shortcuts on Windows

Hi Jan , (Under Windows...) For redoing ctrl+shif+z works fine on Workspace and Class Browser and in any other place i can remember. Copy, cut, paste, find, text selecting, moving to previous/next word (not exactly the same semantics) shortcuts convey Windows ones. Which other keyboard shortcuts,

[Pharo-users] Boardician (board game framework) update

Hi all, I did some clean up and implemented one new (old) game. More changes to come upon feedback. It's very important that we all play with them cause science shows that this type of games improve brain function . You ca

Re: [Pharo-users] Code critics: 'Method defined in all subclasses, but not in superclass'

It's true in v4 is already fixed :) On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:53 AM, Marcus Denker wrote: > > > On 26 Mar 2015, at 23:15, Laura Risani wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > If i run Critic Browser on a package with just a class that defines a > method as subcl

[Pharo-users] Code critics: 'Method defined in all subclasses, but not in superclass'

Hi all, If i run Critic Browser on a package with just a class that defines a method as subclassResponsibility and two subclasses that override it, i get under group 'Design Flaws' 'Method defined in all subclasses, but not in superclass'. If instead of 'self subclassResponsibility' i write anyth

Re: [Pharo-users] Boardician (board game framework)

Excellent! I have a todo list i'll work on including further class commenting, method classification on example games, ... I wanted to share what i have to get feedback. Feel free to add to the list! About the issue on EMonsterMover i thought back and forth about having only one configurable (dyn

Re: [Pharo-users] Boardician (board game framework)

> > I took some moments to look at the code with Olivier. > Excellent! All feedback is really valuable! (dear silent readers i care about your opinion, i assure you i'm not selling it) We think that the name of the project is strange and could be sexier :) > Previously you suggested 'MetaBoard',

Re: [Pharo-users] Boardician (board game framework)

tell me anything >> >> BPDirector new play. >> DPDirector new play. >> GDirector new play. >> >> neither :) >> >> Stef >> >> Le 24/3/15 15:41, Laura Risani a écrit : >> >> Hi all, >> >> A time ago i posted two b

[Pharo-users] Boardician (board game framework)

Hi all, A time ago i posted two board games on the list and Stéphane said that he would like to extract from these and other ones he has gathered a framework for doing board games. So i developed a little one called 'Boardician' and implemented four little example games through it. DOCUMENTATION

Re: [Pharo-users] Package dependencies

Awww thank you Thierry ! This is so much fun :) On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Thierry Goubier wrote: > Le 24/03/2015 05:03, Laura Risani a écrit : > >> it is 'squidik' >> > > Done. Please check your Smalltalkhub account to see what has changed. > >

Re: [Pharo-users] Package dependencies

it is 'squidik' On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Thierry Goubier wrote: > Le 24/03/2015 04:18, Laura Risani a écrit : > >> So can i just freely upload my project configuration package to >> MetaRepoForPharo40 (to 30?)? Do i need some type authorization? &g

Re: [Pharo-users] Package dependencies

So can i just freely upload my project configuration package to MetaRepoForPharo40 (to 30?)? Do i need some type authorization? On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Thierry Goubier wrote: > Le 23/03/2015 22:19, Laura Risani a écrit : > >> Didn't thought of it, then i should writ

Re: [Pharo-users] Package dependencies

(i want to know what i should do to make my project available through it) On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Laura Risani wrote: > Didn't thought of it, then i should write a Configuration. How does > Configuration Browser get to know about all the configurations it lists? > &g

Re: [Pharo-users] Package dependencies

etacello to load it. >> >> Thierry >> >> >> You can have a look for example in the Mines configuration it depends on >>> LedMorph >>> >>> Le 22/3/15 16:25, Laura Risani a écrit : >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> What's the easiest way at the moment to make a package when downloaded >>>> from a repo automatically download others (which depend only on core >>>> system classes)? >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Laura >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > >

Re: [Pharo-users] Package dependencies

for your project. >> > > Even easier: define a BaselineOf for your project (a configuration will > have you write a baseline anyway). And use Metacello to load it. > > Thierry > > > You can have a look for example in the Mines configuration it depends on >>

[Pharo-users] Package dependencies

Hi all, What's the easiest way at the moment to make a package when downloaded from a repo automatically download others (which depend only on core system classes)? Best, Laura

Re: [Pharo-users] Search and replace source code

Thank you all, your answers allowed me to solve my problem. Also very interesting tools! On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Thierry Goubier wrote: > Le 19/03/2015 19:05, Sean P. DeNigris a écrit : > >> Thierry Goubier wrote >> >>> you can use the parse tree rewriter of the Refactoring Browser set

[Pharo-users] Search and replace source code

Hi all, How do you replace all 'expression1' in source code by 'expression2'? I can find them with Finder but don't see any easy way to replace them. My problem is i want to change parameter names in many methods. Best, Laura

[Pharo-users] Group external method under custom tag

Hi all, I have a 'package1' that defines methods in other packages (in a method group with its name). If while at a class browser i select 'package1' these methods are shown but not if i select any of the package's tags. Is it possible to show them under a custom package1's tag? (instead of defini

[Pharo-users] Cleaning changes file?

Hi all, Can/should the changes file be somehow cleaned? How do you recommend doing so? Love, Laura

Re: [Pharo-users] Programatically abandoning

For example: > > 10 timesRepeat: [ [ 1 / 0 ] on: Error do: [ "do nothing" ] ] > > Cheers, > Alexandre > > > > On Mar 5, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Laura Risani wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > How can i within a method, programatically produce the

[Pharo-users] Programatically abandoning

Hi all, How can i within a method, programatically produce the same effect that would have abandoning a raised debug window? Best, Laura

Re: [Pharo-users] Learn something today

Interesting! On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Tudor Girba wrote: > Indeed, we use this extensively for "scripting" APIs. > > Doru > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Hilaire wrote: > >> Collection iterated with symbol[1]: >> >> #(1 2 3) do: #inspect. >> >> Have a nice day. >> >> Hilaire >> >> [

Re: [Pharo-users] Spotter vs Spotlight was: [Re: Cleaning code completition's namespace]

Hi, There was a mistake in the algorithm as the matching was case sensitive >>> which is not useful in our case. So, try this: >>> >> spotterSelectorsFor: aStep > (...) > Works perfect. So additions i would like to see built by default >> Cmd+w to close on GTSpotter and GTPlayground. >> > > Thi

Re: [Pharo-users] Tagging packages

Ok, forget it, i've just noticed "Groups"... On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Laura Risani wrote: > Hi all, > > What method do you use to organize/tag your packages so you can then > easily retrieve those sharing a same tag? Is there any functionality > intended fo

[Pharo-users] Tagging packages

Hi all, What method do you use to organize/tag your packages so you can then easily retrieve those sharing a same tag? Is there any functionality intended for it? I've been trying the following ones (ordered by increasing satisfaction): prefixing, flagging, sharing repository, pragma. But i feel

Re: [Pharo-users] Spotter vs Spotlight was: [Re: Cleaning code completition's namespace]

> What do you mean about all existing menus in the image? Right now, the > default Spotter searches for the top level entries in the World menu and > then lets you dive if you want. It can also be made easily to search for > all menu entries from the World menu. Is that what you have in mind? > At

Re: [Pharo-users] Published some old games ...

I'm glad you like them :). It was fun to develop them . I can play Tetris for a long time, but i can't survive on the EaterGame for more than 40'. @Nacho Thank you for your feedback. About the Eater, perhaps in the future i make some additions, but is fully functional now (when you complete a leve

Re: [Pharo-users] Published some old games ...

Hi , I developed some little games in distribution v3 (seems they work fine in v4 except perhaps some visual difference). If you want to take a look at them (feedback is welcome) they are here MCSmalltalkhubRepository owner: 'squidik' project: 'Games' user: '' password: nil Love, Laura On Mon,

Re: [Pharo-users] Spotter vs Spotlight was: [Re: Cleaning code completition's namespace]

Hi again Doru , Thanks for the detail feedback. I provided some inlined answers and took > the liberty of changing the thread subject. > > It was just a first impression, perhaps once i get to properly know the tool and give it the proper trial period it deserves (as a work someone put dedication

Re: [Pharo-users] Image growing size

Problemution (problem+solution) found! I've tried clearing package cache, image cleanup -> size decreased a little. unloading all my packages -> size unchanged. Yet i haven't thought as my doing about TilingWindowManager i've installed! It has an option for snapshooting worlds, it's possible i'v

Re: [Pharo-users] Cleaning code completition's namespace

Hi Doru , On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Tudor Girba wrote: > > > In the latest Pharo 4 Spotter works properly with the Dark Theme. > Starting from a fresh image (downloaded this week), and doing nothing more than setting the theme to Pharo 3 Dark, GTSpotter shows white, what is curious because

Re: [Pharo-users] Image growing size

I've tried, at some degree, all of your suggestions, but i failed to reduce the image size significantly. I'll keep trying, meantime i've started with a fresh image. Thank you for your answers. Best, Laura On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Hilaire wrote: > Le 03/02/2015 17:

Re: [Pharo-users] Cleaning code completition's namespace

ng? > > I ask because the old Spotlight should be using the same code completion > mechanism => it should appear/disappear from both at the same time... > > As for spotter, I don't have an answer now :) > > Saludos, > Guille > > El Tue Feb 03 2015 at 5:24:

[Pharo-users] Image growing size

Hi all, The official image i've downloaded weighted about 40 MB. Now its size is about 200 MB. What is the explanation? Is this normal or have i done something wrong? I haven't been using globals, just downloaded and defined some packages. The only over persistent thing i've done is to keep an in

Re: [Pharo-users] Cleaning code completition's namespace

Thank you all for your answers. Hi Guille , Nice solution! It worked perfectly for Code Completition! Yet the obsolete symbols (class names and selectors) keep showing in Spotlight, but i guess this is too implementation specific. I will step through its execution to try to find out how it works

[Pharo-users] Cleaning code completition's namespace

Hi all, Code completition tools show class/method old names i've changed and no longer use. How can i remove all unused (occurring nowhere in source code) or unimplemented names? Best, Laura

Re: [Pharo-users] Code completion differences at browser and workspace

valid expression. Thank you for the teaching! Best, Laura On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Nicolai Hess wrote: > 2015-01-29 22:06 GMT+01:00 Laura Risani : > >> Hi all, >> >> I've noticed that the code completition tool shows a different list if >> brought up at a works

Re: [Pharo-users] Autoformatting extisting packages

d trace through how its done behind the scenes, > and adapt to your requirements. > > HTH, cheers -ben > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:08 AM, Laura Risani > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> How do i apply autoformatting to existing packages? I've read somewhere >>

Re: [Pharo-users] Why single inheritance?

Thank you all for your insights, they were very educational to me. On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:49 AM, Ben Coman wrote: > http://www.visoracle.com/squeak/faq/traits-vs.html > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Laura Risani > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> What

Re: [Pharo-users] Implementing text navigation shortcuts

Hi Nicolai, Thank for your answer, it was excellent! It is nice to know that the editing functions are MVC way separated. :) On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Nicolai Hess wrote: > > 2015-01-29 23:06 GMT+01:00 Laura Risani : > >> Hi all, >> >> I like to implement a k

[Pharo-users] Implementing text navigation shortcuts

Hi all, I like to implement a keyboard shortcut for, while editing any text, move the text pointer to the next position after $: . Seems that the base of all text editing is the class #TextMorphForEditView. I see there there is an instance variable for the text. My problem is i can not find a met

[Pharo-users] Autoformatting extisting packages

Hi all, How do i apply autoformatting to existing packages? I've read somewhere that this functionality used to be at the refactoring menu, but i can't find it, don't know if it has been renamed or moved. Best, Laura

[Pharo-users] Code completion differences at browser and workspace

Hi all, I've noticed that the code completition tool shows a different list if brought up at a workspace or at a system browser. Particulary workspace's completition list is broader than browser's one. For instance if while writting a method i have already accepted other method names but haven't

Re: [Pharo-users] Waiting object

Thank you Ben, i will take a look at that loop process. On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Ben Coman wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Laura Risani > wrote: > >> Hi Ben , >> #fork let me implement the overall functionality i wanted, but i had to >>

[Pharo-users] Why single inheritance?

Hi all, What is the explanation why Smalltalk designers preferred single inheritance+traits to multiple inheritance? Why is the former better than the latter? Do traits let you share state also or only behavior? Best, Laura

Re: [Pharo-users] Waiting object

eract? What is the > application? > > cheers -ben > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 5:49 AM, Laura Risani > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> Thank you for your answers. >> >> But i yet can't see how to implement the method i wanted, because #fork >> schedules the

Re: [Pharo-users] Waiting object

Hi all, Thank you for your answers. But i yet can't see how to implement the method i wanted, because #fork schedules the process and immediately returns but i'd like to wait and only then return the answer. Best, Laura On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Laura Risani wrote: >

[Pharo-users] Waiting object

Hi all, I need an object/method like this one Waiting>> wait : seconds "i take the flow control during 'seconds' without halting image morphs stepping/handling (as Delay>>wait: does) and then return to the sender " How can i implement it? Where can i borrow for reuse an existing one from? Best

Re: [Pharo-users] Manners on the list?

; > Laura, prove me I am wrong, how much is 2 + 3 ? > > Alexandre > > > > On Jan 18, 2015, at 8:27 PM, Laura Risani > wrote: > > > > Thank you all for your responses. They led me to a founded criteria on > posting behavior, one about which i was quite unsure b

Re: [Pharo-users] Manners on the list?

g post on Stack Overflow to render it readably available to others and also as a practical display of gratitude? If the question gets closed it won't be matter (or just a little) Best, Laura On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Hilaire wrote: > Le 17/01/2015 00:48, Laura Risani a écrit : >

[Pharo-users] Manners on the list?

Hi all, I really appreciate the dedication and effort someone generously put into answering a question. i want neither to waste such a lovely people's time by saying irrelevant things nor to sound harsh or dry to them. It doesn't kind of feel right saying nothing when someone gives me a rather le

[Pharo-users] How to keep the system updated?

How do i keep the system updated? Should i just wait to the next version release or should i do something in the the midtime? I was feeling curious about World Menu> System> Software update , i tried it (having saved the image) and after downloading some packages lots of predebug windows showed up

[Pharo-users] Useful tools?

Hi all, What are some tools / plug-ins/ projects / packages / frameworks you find very useful or you use very frequently for development? (please for each name it and state it's purpose) I'm a newcomer to Pharo , so it hasn't to be something rare. On the side... I feel curious about how one gets