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Janko Mivšek | 1 Mar 2012 09:47
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[ANN] Ideas for this year GSoC wanted

Dear Smalltalkers,

Let we apply this year again for the Google Summer of Code, which as you
know is a Google's stipendium program for students to encourage them
working on open-source projects [1].

Ok, our first step as community is to collect ideas for possible
projects and to apply to the GSoC as an organization. Deadline is next
Friday, so please hurry on with ideas. Just put them as reply to this
email or to admins directly and we will put them on our website [2].

Your project idea should be written as answers to these questions:

  Name
  Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)
  Possible mentor
  Possible second mentor

  Description
  Technical Details
  Benefits to the Student
  Benefits to the Community

See how such ideas look like in past: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas.

Waiting for your ideas
Carla and Janko, your GSoC Admin team

[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2012
[2] http://gsoc2012.esug.org
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askoh | 2 Mar 2012 04:33

vw7.8.1 VisualWorks.ini

I just downloaded vw7.8.1 and looked at the visualworks.ini file. There does
not seem to be a line for 7.8.1. Is that an oversight? What should the
missing line be? Just to be sure.

78 00 c:\Program Files\Cincom\vw7.8\bin\win\vwnt.exe 
77 01 c:\Program Files\Cincom\vw7.7.1\bin\win\vwnt.exe 

Thanks,
Aik-Siong Koh

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Andres Valloud | 2 Mar 2012 11:18
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Re: store.cincomsmalltalk.com

The public store repository is back online.  Please let us know if you 
see any problems.

On 2/29/2012 6:24 AM, Boris Popov, DeepCove Labs wrote:
> Yea, the maintenance is taking longer than expected, it seems (see attached).
>
> -Boris
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwnc-bounces <at> cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:vwnc-bounces <at> cs.uiuc.edu] On Behalf Of Johannes Brauer
> Sent: Wednesday, February 29, 2012 9:21 AM
> To: vwnc
> Subject: [vwnc] store.cincomsmalltalk.com
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> is down?!
>
> Johannes
>
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Köllner Chaussee 11
> 25337 Elmshorn
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leodm | 2 Mar 2012 01:56
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[Announce] S8 in the Concrete Jungle

Hi!
Alejandro Reimondo (Ale) will make a presentation about
 S8 platform and U8 service on Tuesday March 6, 2012
 to NYC Smallltalk Developer’s group.

http://www.nycsmalltalk.org/2012/01/10/s8-release-candidate-smalltalk-on-js/

There is a lot of topics to talk about, the topic
 of most interest (to us) is to explain what we
 are doing with S8.
A breaf description of our regional point of view about OT
 and Smalltalk, and our proposal of a modern
 formulation of development using Smalltalk will
 be the starting point of the presentation.
The S8 platform was implemented to let us(smalltalkers)
 be responsible of our execution environments (as it
 was in the early days of smalltalk).
That impose a change of attitude and the formulation/idea
 must be supported by tools and evidence/experience
 of others in the same field.
As a demostration on how we can do that with S8,
 Ale will mention the platforms we have implemented for
 using the U8 service (designed to make worldwide
 social development with smalltalk
 http://u8.smalltalking.net ).

On technical side, to mention where a person can start
 application development and self-learning using U8,
 he will describe the frameworks we have implemented
 on top of S8 (we all know the importance of frameworks)
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Karsten Kusche | 2 Mar 2012 15:17
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Re: Project ideas for GSoC, 7 days left!

How about improving Magritte to use Grease, so that it is not that dependent on Pharo?

Karsten

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Am Freitag, 2. März 2012 um 15:05 schrieb Janko Mivšek:

Hi everyone,

7 days to deadline for ideas of this year GSoC! Please think about what
would be a nice project for students to work and that way join our
community. And yes, students are welcome to propose projects too!

Let we "recycle" past project ideas too! Please review them and propose
those still valuable. Or change the proposal to suit better. Here they

Let me and Carla post GSoC related stuff only on Pharo, Squeak and VWNC
mailing lists while for other let someone forward those mails there
please. It is just too hard to post on 10+ mailing lists, you know...

Past GSoC mentors please join the debate on special Smalltalk GSoC
you want to be mentor this year you are welcome to join that list too.

Best regards
Janko

S, Janko Mivšek piše:
Dear Smalltalkers,

Let we apply this year again for the Google Summer of Code, which as you
know is a Google's stipendium program for students to encourage them
working on open-source projects [1].

Ok, our first step as community is to collect ideas for possible
projects and to apply to the GSoC as an organization. Deadline is next
Friday, so please hurry on with ideas. Just put them as reply to this
email or to admins directly and we will put them on our website [2].

Your project idea should be written as answers to these questions:

Name
Level (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced)
Possible mentor
Possible second mentor

Description
Technical Details
Benefits to the Student
Benefits to the Community


See how such ideas look like in past: http://gsoc2010.esug.org/ideas.

Waiting for your ideas
Carla and Janko, your GSoC Admin team


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Niall Ross | 2 Mar 2012 22:33

Re: vw7.8.1 VisualWorks.ini

askoh wrote:

>I just downloaded vw7.8.1 and looked at the visualworks.ini file. There does
>not seem to be a line for 7.8.1. Is that an oversight?
>
Yes;  it was a simple oversight.  (Storms in Scotland meant I lost power 
for days during the crucial final week of roll-out, not a problem as 
everything I had to do for it had already been done - except, as it 
turned out, that .ini file addition.)

>What should the missing line be?
>
78 01 c:\Program Files\Cincom\vw7.8.1\bin\win\vwnt.exe

or, of course, pointing at wherever else your have installed the 
vw7.8.1's bin\win\vwnt.exe.

Of coiurse, if you have several versions of VW installed, you will add 
that line to the VisualWorks.ini file that your Windows machine is 
actually using - probably one in the bin/win of a rather older version.

Once you've added the line, double-clicking a 7.8.1 image on Windows 
will open it with that vwnt.exe.  And of course mapping 78 00 to it will 
get the improved VM for your 78 00 images - but we recommend upgrading 
all your work to 7.8.1 so you get the 7.8.1 code fixes as well.

HTH
                   Yours faithfully
                         Niall Ross
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Boris Popov, DeepCove Labs | 2 Mar 2012 22:40
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Re: vw7.8.1 VisualWorks.ini

The fact that version IDs aren't incremented at the beginning of a cycle still puzzles me, why would I want to change my 78 00 line to test pre-RC 7.8.1 builds and how do I tell them apart from pre-RC 7.9 builds? If they were, you wouldn’t have this issue.

 

-Boris

 

 

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Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 4:33 PM
To: askoh
Cc: vwnc <at> cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: [vwnc] vw7.8.1 VisualWorks.ini

 

askoh wrote:

 

>I just downloaded vw7.8.1 and looked at the visualworks.ini file. There

>does not seem to be a line for 7.8.1. Is that an oversight?

>

 

Yes;  it was a simple oversight.  (Storms in Scotland meant I lost power for days during the crucial final week of roll-out, not a problem as everything I had to do for it had already been done - except, as it turned out, that .ini file addition.)

 

>What should the missing line be?

>

 

78 01 c:\Program Files\Cincom\vw7.8.1\bin\win\vwnt.exe

 

or, of course, pointing at wherever else your have installed the vw7.8.1's bin\win\vwnt.exe.

 

Of coiurse, if you have several versions of VW installed, you will add that line to the VisualWorks.ini file that your Windows machine is actually using - probably one in the bin/win of a rather older version.

 

Once you've added the line, double-clicking a 7.8.1 image on Windows will open it with that vwnt.exe.  And of course mapping 78 00 to it will get the improved VM for your 78 00 images - but we recommend upgrading all your work to 7.8.1 so you get the 7.8.1 code fixes as well.

 

HTH

                   Yours faithfully

                         Niall Ross

 

 

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Dave Stevenson | 2 Mar 2012 22:48

Re: vw7.8.1 VisualWorks.ini

>  - probably one in the bin/win of a rather older version.
That notion wins a Silly Award.
 
The installer should not put VisualWorks.exe and VisualWorks.ini in the bin/win folder. It is a separate application, and should have its own home:
    c:\Program Files\Cincom\VWLoader\
When installing a new version of VWLoader, an entry should be added for the .ini file, rather than overwriting it altogether. 
 
Dave Stevenson
dave.stevenson <at> pacbell.net


From: Niall Ross <niallfr <at> btinternet.com>
To: askoh <askoh <at> askoh.com>
Cc: vwnc <at> cs.uiuc.edu
Sent: Fri, March 2, 2012 3:33:11 PM
Subject: Re: [vwnc] vw7.8.1 VisualWorks.ini

askoh wrote:

>I just downloaded vw7.8.1 and looked at the visualworks.ini file. There does
>not seem to be a line for 7.8.1. Is that an oversight?
>
Yes;  it was a simple oversight.  (Storms in Scotland meant I lost power
for days during the crucial final week of roll-out, not a problem as
everything I had to do for it had already been done - except, as it
turned out, that .ini file addition.)

>What should the missing line be?
>
78 01 c:\Program Files\Cincom\vw7.8.1\bin\win\vwnt.exe

or, of course, pointing at wherever else your have installed the
vw7.8.1's bin\win\vwnt.exe.

Of coiurse, if you have several versions of VW installed, you will add
that line to the VisualWorks.ini file that your Windows machine is
actually using - probably one in the bin/win of a rather older version.

Once you've added the line, double-clicking a 7.8.1 image on Windows
will open it with that vwnt.exe.  And of course mapping 78 00 to it will
get the improved VM for your 78 00 images - but we recommend upgrading
all your work to 7.8.1 so you get the 7.8.1 code fixes as well.

HTH
                  Yours faithfully
                        Niall Ross


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Jay | 3 Mar 2012 06:00
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Saving the contents of a window

Hi All,
I have a question on capturing the contents of a window and save as a .gif
file. I have read one of the post in this site which talks about how to
capture the contents of a window and save as a .gif file. But not sure
whether if i have a window with scrolls , then how do I get the full
content? I am not able to get that as I tried using Window currentWindow 
and then completeContentsOfArea:

Any advise on this would be highly appreciated.

Regards
Jay

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Steven Kelly | 3 Mar 2012 08:08
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Re: Saving the contents of a window

Hi Jay,
 
See Printer>>example1. You can use "builder window displayBox:" to resize your window during printing to get the full contents displayed without scrollbars. You can get an idea of the scale to use by asking your main UI component for its bounds and its widget's preferredBounds.
 
You might also want to look at the Windows Goodies parcel for RequestingHostPrinter, to get a printer dialog on Windows. CompressionZLibWrite+PNGImageWriter from the public library will let you write PNGs instead of GIFs, which are limited to 256 colors.
 
Hope this helps,
Steve

From: vwnc-bounces <at> cs.uiuc.edu on behalf of Jay
Sent: Sat 03/03/2012 07:00
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Subject: [vwnc] Saving the contents of a window

Hi All,
I have a question on capturing the contents of a window and save as a .gif
file. I have read one of the post in this site which talks about how to
capture the contents of a window and save as a .gif file. But not sure
whether if i have a window with scrolls , then how do I get the full
content? I am not able to get that as I tried using Window currentWindow
and then completeContentsOfArea:

Any advise on this would be highly appreciated.

Regards
Jay

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