Things to get back to in the fullness of time

Amber

Amber - a smalltalk running on node.js intended for writing in-browser apps using almost the syntax of Pharo Smalltalk, and a class hierarchy that allows for easy JSON

To open a PDF (or other) file

aPdfNameString := 'The_Boys_own_book' .

ShellLibrary default shellOpen: FileLocator imageRelative
basePath,'\',aPdfNameString,'.pdf'


e.g. as a method

openPdf: aPdfNameString
        "Opens a pdf file in its own PDF window"

ShellLibrary default shellOpen: FileLocator imageRelative
basePath,'\',aPdfNameString,'.pdf'

Pointers to collections

Are created during the initialization of the owning object

e.g.
DraftFencing new intialize

pools : = ListModel new.


Each member of the collection the next level down is added in a method here.
So in PaffFencing
 . . a pool is added by a method in the Round object
 . . a bout is added by a method in the Pool object.

Model

is the SuperClass for domain model objects.

It's like Object, but has hooks for when the domain objects trigger events for the Views and Presenters

Transcript is always the System Transcript

In Dolphin X6.1 Community Edition, at least.

How to parse in CSV files?

Write to files, read from files
   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4055357/smalltalk-writing-output-to-a-file

Read and write CSV
   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9668506/how-to-in-smalltalk-read-and-process-contents-of-csv-file

Streams, including FileStreams
   http://live.exept.de/doc/online/english/overview/basicClasses/streams.html#FILESTREAM

Things I need to find out:

To use the CSV Parser, requires:

How to import Monticello packages into Dolphin Smalltalk?

   It's stated that Dolphin can already just do this using its Sourcecode Tracking System.  Frustratingly, I can't find out where.

Update 22/10/13 2:30pm : STS is not part of Dolphin X6.1 Community Edition Edition. (Answer on comp.lang.smalltalk.dolphin)

Starting back out again

I want to write an application, initially for Windows.

I want to write it quickly.

I want it to do lots of things.

So I'm going to re-learn Smalltalk.

After hunting about a bit, I'm going to write it in Dolphin Community Edition.

I want to make the Windows part of the system nicely windowed.

I want a CSV Parser, so I want to import Monticello packages.

I'm going to write it on my Chromebook via VNC  to my noisy laptop, which I keep in another room.  (Real VNC client on the Chromebook, TightVNC server on my laptop).