gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.croquet.devel

[OT] Just some stuff

David Faught — 2008-09-01T15:55:34

Haven't made much progress this summer on my current Tweak/Croquet project, and I'm sad to say that despite getting the bulk of my free time, my golf game hasn't improved much either. Tipped off by a comment by Dan Ingalls in a video about the Lively Kernel, I checked out CanvaScape by Benjamin Joffe and got his permission to do a little mod which randomly generates a maze for the playing arena. This is all JavaScript and "should be" relatively browser-independent. Check it out at: http://home.wi.rr.com/thefaughts/canvascape/canvascape.html Attached is the script for CroquetSia episode 6. It's a lot of dialog to handle in Alice, which would (right now) be my first choice of tools to dramatize it. So, I will probably never do the animation. Here's the script anyway, for entertainment purposes only. Comments always welcome. Cheers, Dave Copyright 2008 by David A. Faught, all rights reserved. (Setting: U.S.A. Old West fork in a road, old-looking stripey wooden ball half buried in the dirt.) Ind

Does Croquet have Refactoring Browser?

askoh — 2008-09-01T04:41:10

Can a Refactoring Browser be used inside Croquet? How can I do it? Thanks, Aik-Siong Koh

Make Croquet use ctrl instead of alt?

askoh — 2008-09-01T00:29:48

I would like to use ctrl-c to copy instead of alt-c in Croquet and so on. How can I do that? Why use alt in Croquet? Aik-Siong Koh

Request: type as argument name

Waldemar Schwan — 2008-08-28T16:31:23

Hello everyone. This is an request to the developer of Croquet. For me, developing in Smalltalk, it war allways a good hint when arguments named like the expected type. example: add: aCharacter map at: aCharacter asciiValue+1 put: 1. Currently in Croquet there are some methods where this is not the case like: TPortal>>ghost: g ghost := g. It whould be great if you can change this in an later release. For me small things like this makes life easyer and developing more fun because you spend less time searching for the right classes. Cheers Waldemar

How to use overlays?

Waldemar Schwan — 2008-08-28T13:27:58

Hello everyone. I'm trying to generate a TPortal only visible to the user using the local machine, linking to an Island althow just localy avalible. To accomplish that I tryed to use an overlay containing the discribed TPortal, but I'm having some toubled setting up an Overlay. Knows anybody a place to find an example about using overlays? Thanks for any help. Waldemar

connection troubles

Waldemar Schwan — 2008-08-23T09:43:18

Hello everyone. Youre where a great help so far enabling me to push my work further. Thanks a lot for that. I have some connection troubles since I created my own Harness and made some changed to CroquetMaster. Sometimes I get an MessageNotUnterstand-Error screenshot: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3049/2789280786_06a72d25fa_o.png occuring in TRemoteController>>beServer "Act as a server, e.g., a participant trusted to replicate an island." | joinFacet serveFacet | "Revoke the prior #recv/serve facets" serveFacet := facets at: #serve ifAbsent:[nil]. serveFacet ifNotNil:[self revokeMessageFacet: serveFacet]. "Create a new #serve facet" serveFacet := self addMessageFacet: #serve:from:. facets at: #serve put: serveFacet. joinFacet := facets at: #beServer. connection outQueue nextPut: (TDatagram facet: joinFacet data: serveFacet). I spend 3 days searching for the reasion, but because its happening randomliy, I'm completly stumbed. My changed to CroquetMaster where: CroquetMaster>>setup

Who to create textlabels inside Croquet dynamicly?

Waldemar Schwan — 2008-08-20T08:03:56

Hello everyone. I'm working on visualizing a filesystem or at least some folders in Croquet. At the moment I've got TWindows for each file and a TCube for ech folder. The next step would be to habe a text label containing file or folder name for each folder / file. I experimenten a bit on Anotaions and had a Look at TForm but I couldn't get it working. I seams to me that i have to create a Morphic World witch contains a Text so that I can put this World somehow insite of a TWindow. But I'm not quiet sure if this is a goot approach. Is there a better way to get some simple textlines inside an Island, or do you know examples of displaying text? Couldn't find some for myself. Thanks for any help.

http://hedgehog.software.umn.edu:8888 down?

Waldemar Schwan — 2008-08-17T18:34:52

Hello everyone, it seams to me, that http://hedgehog.software.umn.edu:8888/ is down. I can't update the Montychello repos. When I enter "http://hedgehog.software.umn.edu:8888/Homebase" in my Browser nothing happens. I can ping hedgehog.software.umn.edu:8888. Am I doing something wrong or issn't the server running corectly? Greeting Waldemar

bugs.squeak.org Croquet bugs

Matthew Fulmer — 2008-08-13T23:42:50

Hi. I'm sending this email on behalf of Ken Causey, the bugs.squeak.org maintainer. The mantis tracker has a category for Croquet bugs, and 604 issues filed under that category. Several questions: Is anybody still using bugs.squeak.org to track Croquet bugs? If nobody is using it, should we delete it, or should we export the database to another tracker, such as the cobalt tracker? If somebody is still using it, who should Ken Causey, the maintainer of bugs.squeak.org, consider to be the primary contact for that portion of the issue tracker?

Using GLLines in TUpdatingMesh

Phua Khai Fong — 2008-08-12T12:38:32

Hi, I have a problem using the mode GLLines in a subclass of TUpdatingMesh. There is an error when I use it and the debugger shows the error in the below method :- primCount: indexCount forMode: mode mode == GLTriangles ifTrue: [^ indexCount // 3]. mode == GLQuads ifTrue: [^ indexCount // 4]. mode == GLPoints ifTrue: [^ indexCount]. mode == GLTriangleStrip ifTrue: [^ indexCount - 2]. mode == GLTriangleFan ifTrue: [^ indexCount - 2]. mode == GLLineStrip ifTrue: [^ indexCount - 1]. "It's easy to add additional modes if necessary." self error: 'Unexpected mode'. ^ 0 The above method belongs to the OpenGL. I can add in another line :- mode == GLLines ifTrue: [^indexCount // 2]. With the above line added, it works fine. My question is what can I do to have the mode permanently there if I publish my work using the Monticello package?

Embedded Tweak world and a simple 2D embedded Tweak app demo

Georg Köster — 2008-08-11T08:01:20

Hi everybody, you find more text and pictures on: http://tweakingcroquet.blogspot.com/2008/08/simple-example-2d-tweak-embedded-app-in.html The code: http://www.bisbis.de/croquet_embed_tweak/Croquet-Embed-Tweak-GK.10.mcz I ported the concept of TMorphicWorld to Tweak with TEmbeddedTweakWorld. It was fairly straightforward, and there's no multi-hand support yet, but I'd like to hear your comments about it. < at >David Faught: It's really an instance next to each replica - not (as in VNC) one app instance which's output is 'broadcast' everywhere. Cheers, Georg

Traits

P.Davidowitz — 2008-08-07T23:39:03

Are 'Traits' to be avoided in Croquet development? And what about in Squeak in general?

how to apply shadows

sathyas — 2008-08-07T06:29:25

hi friends im sathya....i need help i had created object using maya.......also using Shadows & Textures. after i was imported to croquet... output is An object imported to croquet.....but without shadows so how to apply shadows help me.. thks

how to interact particular part of object in croquet

sathyas — 2008-08-07T05:40:38

hi friends, i am new in croquet.... how to interact particular part of object in croquet example: human is one object it has head,hand,leg..... i can interact total object(human)... but i can't interact particular part of human(head,hand,leg) help me...............................

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2008-08-06T14:25:29

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Using TUpdatingMesh

Phua Khai Fong — 2008-08-01T19:30:07

I would like to ask the proper steps to use and understand TUpdatingMesh better. The way I do it is :- -Create a subclass -Initialize variables -create method updateMesh -set rendering mode -set vertexBuffer, normalBuffer and textcoordBuffer size -generate vertex information -set faceGroups to assemble mesh My questions are:- 1) Can any collection be used for faceGroups or only IntegerArray? (Please provide more info about setting up the IntegerArray too, not quite clear bout it) 2) How can I include GL calls? e.g. setting line width?point size? 3) Can I set different rendering modes for 1 mesh? Thanks, Fong

Importing ase file

2008-07-31T15:15:27

Hi, Sorry to be posting so many questions recently, but we're trying to get a lot done quickly and so far you all have been really helpful. Thanks for answering. Our most recent issue is with trying to turn a .ase file into its own TObject, or at least a convenient mesh that we can code into a world. Ideally we could make this a subclass of TFrame that we can manipulate as any other object. In order to get to this step, we first tried to follow the outline of the boat mesh included with Croquet. I added the following three methods to a world: createRabbitMeshGroup | rabbitMeshGroup rabbit | rabbitMeshGroup := TGroup new. rabbit := TLoad3DSMax new initializeWithFileName: (FileDirectory pathFromURI: 'Content/Meshes/rabbit.ASE'). rabbit translationX: 0 y: 0 z: 0. rabbit collapse. rabbit boundsDepth: 2. rabbit objectName: 'Rabbit'. rabbit scale: 0.05. rabbit initBounds. rabbitMeshGroup addChild: rabbit. ^ rabbitMeshGroup createRabbit: space | rabbitMeshGroup vehicle| rabbitMeshGroup :=

Menu Functions

2008-07-29T19:11:38

Hi, We're essentially trying to alter the menu above the simple demo world to include actions to create and manipulate objects in the world. As an exploratory step in this, I created an "Actions" menu that has an item "Create snowman" in it. This creates three movable spheres in the world every time it is pressed. What we then wanted to do was have another option in the same menu "Animate head" that would move the head away from the body and then bring it back. This is a very simple animation, however, the issue we are running into is that we know of no way to reference this sphere so that the menu knows what we're talking about. Is this territory that has been covered in the past? Is it simply not currently possible to use the menu as a viable way to change the scene? Or am I missing something simple that would allow us to do just this? Thanks, Dan

freeCAD/Croquet release 0.2

Phua Khai Fong — 2008-07-28T16:00:07

I have released freeCAD/Croquet 0.2 . All feedback will be appreciated. Regards, Fong From web browser, download Cobalt http://croquet-src-01.oit.duke.edu/cobalt.html Save in a folder e.g. c:\cobalt From Windows Explorer, unzip and open the containing folder e.g. c:\cobalt\cobalt-base-current-build-20080703 From web browser, download the monticello package http://croquet-src-01.oit.duke.edu:8886/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-kayef.5.mcz Save in the package-cache folder e.g. c:\cobalt\cobalt-base-current-build-20080703\package-cache From Windows Explorer, double click on Croquet.bat Inside Cobalt, click on black background to open World Menu. Select 'Open' 'Monticello Browser' In Monticello Browser, in right pane, click on the package-cache directory e.g. c:\cobalt\cobalt-base-current-build-20080703\package-cache Click open In the new window that opens, select FreeCAD-kayef.5.mcz Click load Close the Monticello Browser Inside Cobalt, click on black background to open World Menu. Select 'objects' Click 'Croquet' but

Is an embedded Tweak app possible? CCollaborative in a TWindow?

Georg Köster — 2008-07-27T23:40:51

Hi everybody, I have been playing with the 2D-support. I have a few questions which should be quick. Thanks in advance for your help! + What is the comment of TMorphicWorld referencing when it says "... proper (replicated) Tweak variants" ? (Complete text attached.) + Is there any example app with Tweak 2D-Interface on a TWindow? + Is there any reason that CCollaborativeTextWindow isn't running like for example KMediaText as an TEmbeddableApp? Was it just before it's time? I did some reading and trials and looks like I can easily display a Tweak-painted complete window in a TWindow (in fact CCollaborative is doing that for the editor only). Pointer-translation still has to be done. I found also CCollaborative not only replicating the events like keypress, but also the form-painting - that can be fixed as in the embedded apps. But why not use the embedded apps infrastructure directly? I've seen the Ben Schroeder questions on doing something advanced with Tweak, other messages saying that Tweak-inte

CCPainter

2008-07-25T14:04:40

Hi, I understand if this is an obvious question and I'm simply missing something, but I've been attempting to replace TPainter with CCPainter and haven't got it working yet. I loaded the file from the Public Contributions page into a CCPainter folder with Monticello. Where do I go from here? Dan