Hello list! I've dabbled with Smalltalk Squeak, and GNU Smalltalk. Didn't get too far ;( OOP has been a real struggle for me. Hoping Self will change all of...
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Casey Ransberger
casey.obrien.r@...
Feb 1, 2011 9:42 pm
On the self website, under documentation, there's a pretty good tutorial. It'd be nice to have more of that stuff. I'm new to self too:)...
Hi Duke, The three main current sources of documentation are the tutorial as Casey mentioned, the manual at docs.selflanguage.org and the various papers on the...
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Russell Allen wrote: Hello Russell ... ... The Manual looks good, but I think that it would have to come _after_ the tutorial. Not sure...
Hi Duke, Are you using the Demo.snap snapshot or the Clean.snap snapshot? Playing with the world in Demo.snap might help you. To answer the specific question: ...
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Jim Wise
jwise@...
Feb 2, 2011 4:03 pm
... Is there a ps or pdf version of the handbook from docs.selflanguage.org (I see that the main website notes this is `coming soon')? Also, I assume the Demo...
Hello Russell .... ... My bad! I've been using the Clean.snap - for no particular reason. I'll try reading the tutorial along with the Demo.snap and see how ...
... I've mirrored the source here: <http://www.bluishcoder.o.nz/KEVOSOUR.SIT> Here is another interesting self paper you might like to read: Attack of the...
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Jim Wise
jwise@...
Feb 3, 2011 2:46 am
... Awesome, thanks! ... Cool -- got it from CiteSeer's cache (that link was timing out), and will read it tomorrow on the train. :-) -- Jim Wise ...
Jim, If I were to tackle multiple inheritance today, I would go with "unordered up to join". Given a diamond inheritance pattern, with a match, A, found on...
Hi guys, One thing I would like 4.5 to do is look and feel a bit more modern. I've been trying out some small adjustments to fonts, spacing, colours etc and...
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Casey Ransberger
casey.obrien.r@...
Feb 5, 2011 6:42 am
Cool! I feel ya wrt look and feel. I really like the color you added. I suppose maybe this isn't the right list, but I just did a skinning engine for the...
... Admittedly, I don't know what I'm doing - too new to Self - hardly no experience with Squeak. However, when I load the experimental snap, all I get is...
I wasn't sure about the spacing either - here's a mocked up version with a border of 1 around most of the elements (and I unbolded the outliner titles). If I...
Sounds like a font issue. Whatever it is is certainly isn't your fault! Are you on Linux? If so, what distro and version? Also if you could paste in the result...
... 2 fonts _not_ provided "out-of-the-box" on Xubuntu :) I'll see if I can get then installed. What font(s) are used for Clean and Demo snaps? Both these...
Hello Self-ers I'm in the Demo snap wanting to again work through the mini-tut about Slots object (the bank account example). However, these tires old eyes ...
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tb@...
Feb 8, 2011 1:53 pm
... We've been through that here, just half a year ago, or so. Save the attached file to morphicFacelift.self besides your snapshot. Then start a Clean.snap...
... Thanks, Thomas! I'll do the "system" upgrade that you propose above! However, that was _not_ my question. :) I want to know how I would select a complete...
... OK! I just finished a Self Group search and found the thread you are referring to. Questions: Russell uses the term: "file it in". What does that mean? Is...
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tb@...
Feb 8, 2011 4:21 pm
... First, I made a mistake. The code should read... bootstrap read: 'morphicFacelift' from: '.'. ...without the .self And Yes! Enter the code into the editor...
