--- a/GettingStarted.wsp Tue Mar 16 19:37:24 2004 +0100
+++ b/GettingStarted.wsp Wed Mar 17 13:20:40 2004 +0100
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
The New ChangesBrowser and Hierarchical Inspectors are unfinished and
should not (yet) be enabled.
Expect a short delay, while these tools are autoloaded.
- Save an image for faster startup the next time.
Useful:
Choose a view style in the "Settings-ViewStyle dialog" that suits your taste.
@@ -28,28 +27,32 @@
Nice:
If you are able to provide translations for the UI (menu items, labels and strings),
I would be very happy, if you'd sit down for an hour or so, type in the translations,
- for greek, russian, etc. and send me the result.
+ for greek, russian, etc. and send me the result.
See the files under the 'lib*/resources' directories for how this is done, and what is missing.
Even fragments will help - I'll merge them into the next release.
Think about returning something this way - you get ST/X for free, so an hour or so
is not too much time to spend - is it ?
+ Recommended:
+ After you have changed your preferences, save a snapshot image
+ for faster startup the next time.
+ You can always start ST/X with the "-I" command line argument to
+ ignore the snapshot image and force a fresh start.
+
2) Learn some of the Tools
- The most heavily used tools are:
+ The tols which are most heavily used initially are:
Workspace
SystemBrowser
ChangesBrowser
Get used to them.
-
3) Learn Smalltalk / Write little demo programs
- See the "Reading List" in the online documentation;
+ See the "Reading List" in the online documentation;
we recommend reading Ivan Tomek's "Joy of Smalltalk" and also work through
the "Introduction to ST" interactive document.
- Both can be reached via the "Help - Online Documentation" menu;
+ Both can be reached via the "Help - Online Documentation" menu;
then proceed to the "Reading List".
-
4) Save your work
Save a snapshot (launchers "File - Save Image" menu) and/or
fileOut your classes from time to time.
--- a/Keyboard.wsp Tue Mar 16 19:37:24 2004 +0100
+++ b/Keyboard.wsp Wed Mar 17 13:20:40 2004 +0100
@@ -1,18 +1,17 @@
Keyboard ShortCuts reference:
=============================
-(see also the HTML online documentation, or the Launchers-Settings-Keyboard menu).
+(see also the HTML online documentation, or the Launchers "Settings-Keyboard" menu).
-
-Notice1:
+Notice1:
for most systems: the CMD-key is mapped to the left ALT-key.
for WINDOWS: it is mapped to the CTRL-key.
-Notice2:
+Notice2:
case matters; CMD-a is different from CMD-A (CMD-Shift-a)
-Notice3:
+Notice3:
the settings are defined during startup, by reading the
file: 'keyboard.rc' - if you dont like the settings, change them !
-In the table below,
+In the table below,
(1) means: CTRL-<char> under windows.
(2) means: not available as keyboard shortCut under windows.
@@ -29,7 +28,7 @@
CMD-p (1) PrintIt
CMD-r (1) Replace
CMD-s (1) Search (open search dialog)
-CMD-v (1) paste
+CMD-v (1) paste
CMD-w (1) select Word under cursor
CMD-x (1) cut
CMD-z (1) popUpMenu
@@ -68,8 +67,8 @@
CTRL-9 enclose the selected text in parenthesis / remove parenthesis
F1 Again (repeat last cut/replace)
-F2 Code Completion (in new browser only) - experimental
-F3 Comment selection
+F2 Code Completion (in new browser only) - experimental
+F3 Comment selection
F4 Uncomment Selection
F5 Paste unix-shell output (disabled)
F6 Selection to UpperCase-first words
@@ -114,10 +113,10 @@
Special (national) Characters:
==============================
-The right CTRL-key is used as a Compose key
+The right CTRL-key is used as a Compose key
(this can be changed in the "keyboard.rc" file).
Composed national characters are entered as a 3-character sequence:
- COMPOSE key1 key2
+ COMPOSE key1 key2
press them in sequence - not at the same.
For example, the french e-accentGrave is entered as:
COMPOSE e `
@@ -126,8 +125,8 @@
A full list is found in the Method "WindowSensor initializeComposeKeyTable".
Alternatively, special characters can be copy/pasted from the following list:
-(Notice: you can also use a font-display via the text-editors
- 'more'-'tools'-'specialCharacters'
+(Notice: you can also use a font-display via the text-editors
+ 'more'-'tools'-'specialCharacters'
menu to insert any special character)
acute:
@@ -137,7 +136,7 @@
circumflex:
Â Ê Î Ô Û â ê î ô û [ Compose <char> ^ ]
tilde:
- Ã Õ Ñ ã õ ñ [ Compose <char> ~ ]
+ Ã Õ Ñ ã õ ñ [ Compose <char> ~ ]
dieresis:
Ä Ë Ï Ö Ü ä ë ï ö ü ÿ [ Compose <char> " ]
slash:
--- a/Setup.wsp Tue Mar 16 19:37:24 2004 +0100
+++ b/Setup.wsp Wed Mar 17 13:20:40 2004 +0100
@@ -1,36 +1,37 @@
Things you may want to change/adjust.
-All settings are made by dialogs found in the Launchers
-"System" - "Settings" menu.
+=====================================
+
+All settings are made by dialogs found in the Launchers "System" - "Settings" menu.
These dialogs also provide individual help (Via the help button).
Look & Feel:
- ST/X supports multple viewStyles,
- which more or less mimic existing Window Systems.
+ ST/X supports multple viewStyles, which more or less mimic
+ existing Window Systems (Windows, Motif, Irix etc.).
The viewStyle can be changed via the Launchers
'Settings - ViewStyle'
- Dialog.
+ Dialog.
Keyboard & Shurtcuts:
- The default keyboard mapping is described in the
- Keyboard.wsp workspace.
- If you dont like it, have a look (and edit)
- the 'keyboard.rc' file.
+ The default keyboard mapping is described in the Keyboard.wsp workspace.
+ If you dont like it, have a look (and edit) the 'keyboard.rc' file.
Language:
- For lack of resources and language competence,
- only German and English are fully supported.
- Some rudimentary French, Italian etc. is present,
+ For lack of resources and language competence, only German and English
+ are fully supported. Some rudimentary French, Italian etc. is present,
but definitely not complete.
- Notice, that the existing translations are only provided to
- give a hint on how it is done.
- All language strings are found in the
+ Notice, that the existing translations are only provided to give a hint
+ on how it is done and to give editors something to start with.
+ All language strings are found in the
"lib*/resources/*.rs"
files; there you will find per-class translations.
+
If you add or fix anything there, we would be very happy,
- if you'd send us your changes - we will incorporate them
- into the next release.
+ if you'd send us your changes - we will incorporate them into the next release.
Make sure that your chosen font is able to display those characters
- (especially if you choose greek, russian or a far-east language).
+ (especially if you edit Greek, Russian or a far-east language translations).
+
+ Sorry: ST/X does not (yet) support right-to-left text display
+ (i.e. Hebrew and Arabic). Be patient - are working on that issue.
Misc settings:
Tabs can be changed to be either multiples of 4 or 8;
@@ -39,15 +40,12 @@
drawing options are adjusted in "Settings - Misc".
Tools:
- For the File- and SystemBrowser, new versions are being
- developed; by default, these are (still) disabled.
- Toggle the corresponding buttons in the "Settings - Tools"
- Dialog.
- (actually, the NewSystemBrowser seems now mature enough,
- to be the default browser...)
- Ignore the initial delay, which is due to some support
- classes (refactoring browser) being autoloaded; if you
- save a snapshot image, this pause will happen only once.
+ For the File- and SystemBrowser, new versions are provided, which
+ offer much more functionality.
+ The old versions are still offered in the Launcher, as there are still
+ some functions which are not yet available in the new tools.
+ You can switch back to make the old tools the default via the
+ "Settings - Tools" Dialog.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This Documents Version: $Revision$
--- a/Welcome.wsp Tue Mar 16 19:37:24 2004 +0100
+++ b/Welcome.wsp Wed Mar 17 13:20:40 2004 +0100
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
Hello World !
+=============
Welcome to the 5.x ST/X release.
Please refer to the online documentation for detailed release notes.
Whats new in 5.2 ?
General Unicode font support.
+ xpSwiki ported.
Whats new in 5.1.6 ?
Bug fixes in the windows version (API-wraps, exceptions etc.)
@@ -25,7 +27,7 @@
added more features (code search) to the NewSystemBrowser.
SIXX (Smalltalk Instance exchange via XML) added.
Some bug fixes.
-
+
Whats new in 5.1.1 ?
Removed unused instance variables from Class (therefore a major version step).
Stream positioning is now 0-based.
@@ -41,7 +43,7 @@
HTTPServer refactored for much easier pluggability
SOAP demos & examples
- try the translation service
+ try the translation service
(in the workspace or via the Launchers Demos-BabelFish menu item.)
Comanche Swiki ported from Squeak
@@ -63,7 +65,7 @@
A list of new features with links into the documentation
is found via the Launchers "Help" -> "Whats new in ST/X" menu item.
- first of all:
+ first of all:
finally a new licensing scheme;
Please read the files
TOP/README (the README tab)
@@ -76,7 +78,7 @@
"Use the new SettingsDialog" flag in the "Launcher-Settings-Tools" dialog.
NewSystemBrowser
- go to the "Launcher-Settings-Tools" dialog,
+ go to the "Launcher-Settings-Tools" dialog,
and turn ON the "Use the new SystemBrowser" flag.
(This takes a short time to load the browser,
so you may want to save an image after that, to avoid the delay in the future.)
@@ -89,7 +91,7 @@
NewFileBrowser
MultiPane, Hierarchical Tree, File Properties,
mime-type controlled presentation and more...
- go to the "Launcher-Settings-Tools" dialog,
+ go to the "Launcher-Settings-Tools" dialog,
and turn ON the "Use the new FileBrowser" flag.
@@ -122,7 +124,7 @@
the smalltalk interchange format
RefactoryBrowser
- is available both in its original version
+ is available both in its original version
(see the RefactoryBrowser class)
and via the NewSystemBrowser (which uses the reafactorings,
but is not based on the refactoryBrowser other than that)
@@ -142,7 +144,7 @@
[although as a developer, I still prefer stx.exe ...)
stx.exe/winstx.exe can now be started multiple times under
- W95/W98 (had a wrong linker flag in the nt.defs file, which
+ W95/W98 (had a wrong linker flag in the nt.defs file, which
prevented the previous version from doing that).
stx for win can now be (re)compiled using the freeBorland tools