2004-06-11
Thanks to Ken I have a working (obsolete) BFAV and Monticello. On Plan9 you can use the editor Acme to directly edit Wiki pages. Would be nice to have a Squeak tool to do the same.
2004-05-31 Recent Projects
Posted my Morse Code stuff on SqueakMap. Morse Code tutorial on Squeakland BSS. Wish it were better integrated with Morphic, but it is rather trivial to make a morph with a script to create a MorseSender and send a message. Added a method to Color class to convert to HTML colors. Now I'm working on methods to recurse directory trees and select image files.
2004-04-24
Writing an essay, Randall Bohn. It is intended for people learning Smalltalk. I post a text version on this wiki, a project on one of the SuperSwikis. I expect to write a few of these as I explore Squeak.
Older entries
Running Squeak 1.2 on my Powerbook 170. Why 1.2? What else will run on a screaming 25 MHz 68030 with 8Meg RAM? (I am considering switching to 2.8 if I can manage to download and transfer it)
Also interested in Squeak on SDL, Squeak on bare metal.
I'm a Smalltalk novice, most of my experience is with Java.
2002-12-31 73 de KD7TVZ.
2002-12-19 Qualified last night for Amateur Radio Technician with code! Just waiting on the FCC to issue my license with call sign. My Morse Code trainer really paid off!
2002-11-20 Building a Morse Code trainer. Class Bug converts strings of dots and dashes '-.-. –.-' to sound. Class MorseCoder converts alphanumeric strings and delegates to Bug. See also cwtext.
31 July 2002 I very much like the idea of 'Copy SVG' on a Morph. I would like to compose a diagram in a RectangleMorph, then export it as SVG, and drop it into a web page. I'm not sure how to make it work, something about subclassing PostscriptCanvas to use a SVGEncoder instead of PostscriptEncoder. Then again, perhaps the drawing models are not similar enough. Might be better to rethink SVGCanvas as a Canvas subclass.
17 June 2002 Typed in the Clock classes from Mark Guzdial's book. Couldn't figure out why I kept getting the debugger when I send my clock the 'start' message. Turns out I left of the period at the end of one line. Instead of [timer clock: self. timer startTicking] I had [timer clock: self timer startTicking]. That of course assigns (self timer startTicking) to (self timer clock) instead of the intended (self) to (self timer clock).
14 June 2002 I wonder how to Squeak in Spanish or Japanese. I found a few pages by searching for 'Japanese' and 'Spanish'. I searched for 'Internationalization' or 'I18n' and found nothing, so I will create a page on the topic. If the page grows I will post a link on the front page, or perhaps someone else will.
I also wonder if this Swiki supports CategoryCategory. (Answer: no 14 June 02)
11 June 2002 Thinking about blosxom in Squeak. A simple UI to capture your thoughts, some simple code to publish them. As you can see, this page is turning into a blog!
