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The first beta of the 0.8.x branch of Iliad is finally out! The release is only available for GNU-Smalltalk for now, but the Squeak/Pharo version should come next week, and a VisualWorks port is expected too.read more

To write the dissertation thesis related to this post is not easy though you cope with this. If any single writer is like, people would ne'er have got problems with the thesis.

You can subscribe to the new Iliad mailing list here. On this list we will talk about Iliad related issues and its development. Questions about the framework are of course welcome! Nicolas Petton

Kate is a powerful text editor. I used it in the past, but unfortunately it doesn't have smalltalk syntax highlighting and I'm a big fan of Vim. Yesterday I gave Kate another try, and I discovered that it has a VI mode in KDE4! It was enough for me ... [More] to hack it a bit :) First I wanted to force Kate to produce the right indentation, like I did for Vim, so I added a custom filetype for smalltalk files, and added the following variables: kate: indent-width 4; mixedindent on; tab-width 8; The next step was to add syntax highlighting for Smalltalk files. Writing syntax files for Kate is actually very easy, and very well explained.read more [Less]

Hi, I am working on the translation of the PyGTK tutorial for GNU Smalltalk. I've ported the 3 first chapters (mostly done for the fourth). You can grab the zip file : http://github.com/MrGwen/gst-gtk/zipball/html Or the source : http://github.com/MrGwen/gst-gtk Cheers, Gwenael Casaccio

Hi, here is a new release of the new IDE of GNU Smalltalk. With a lot of news : * a new interface with tabs * better sender/implementor tools * code clean up * improved debugger * bundled with GST * many bug fixes :D * ... And as VisualGST ... [More] is now bundled with GST, you can get it with : git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/smalltalk.git autoreconf -vi ./configure make make install and launch it with : gst-browser read more [Less]

Building forms is a long, boring and repetitive task. Hopefully you can use Magritte, a nice meta-description framework which builds forms for your models for you. The problem is that sometimes Magritte is not what you want. You may not want to add ... [More] class side descriptions to your models everywhere, if all you need is a few forms to edit them. Another problem is that you end up writing parts the UI in the model. If you reuse your descriptions everywhere it makes sense to avoid duplicating your code, but sometimes those descriptions are just there to build some forms, and at the end it doesn't feel right. Trying to solve this problem, I wrote a small package for Iliad named Formula. Formula doesn't try to compete with Magritte, it's not about descriptions, just about building forms. It contains widgets for forms, fields and conditions.read more [Less]

Today I published a very simple Gravatar module for gnu-smalltalk. How do I get it? If you have the git version of gst installed, you can get it with gst-package directly: gst-package --download gravatar -t ~/.st else you can clone the github ... [More] repository. How to use it? The API is very simple. If you have an email address, you can ask gravatar for the corresponding avatar: gravatar := Gravatar.Gravatar for: '[email protected]'. You can also specify a few options:read more [Less]

So, here is the shortest possible tutorial on the autotools. The problem with autotools is that it is used for complicated things, and people cut-and-paste complicated things even when they ought to be simple. 99% of people just need a way to access ... [More] .pc files and generate juicy Makefiles; the portability part is taken care by glib, sdl and so on. You can use then the following basic autotools setup, which is just 9 lines. You can start from here and add more stuff (including libtool). configure.ac: AC_INIT([package], [version]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])read more [Less]

We are happy to announce the release of Iliad 0.7.1. This version fixes a few bugs introduced in Iliad 0.7.0, especially two bugs from the javascript layer and an annoying bug in the debug mode. GNU-Smalltalkers can clone the git repository from ... [More] http://github.com/NicolasPetton/iliad git clone http://github.com/NicolasPetton/iliad cd iliad git checkout 0.7.1 ./start.sh -p 8888 Since some people asked for a preconfigured pharo image, we made one available at: ftp://bioskop.fr/iliad-0.7.1_pharo.zip.read more [Less]