Self-interest April 2009

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Self Website - selflanguage.org
by Russell Allen 11 May '09

11 May '09

Dear all, As part of an effort to get Self moving again and as a precursor to a new release, we now have a new official Self website at: http://selflanguage.org This site will hopefully be the focal point of Self related information. I will be changing the links to self.sourceforge.net where I am able (ie in Wikipedia etc). I would be greatful if you could all: - link to this site when talking about Self on blogs etc. Self does not have the most 'google-able' name so this would help people find Self and Self related materials. - send me any relevant links or information to add to the site. A technical note: selflanguage.org is built from the Git repository at http://github.com/russellallen/self/tree/website using the Sphinx documentation system recently developed to handle the documentation needs of Python. If you have suggested changes, please either email them to me or alternatively fork a copy of the repository on GitHub, make your changes and I can then pull them into the main repo. Best, Russell

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non-english keyboard (mac)
by Jéraume 12 Apr '09

12 Apr '09

hi, I'm new to self, so I downloaded the latest stable version and followed the instructions. I dropped "demo.snap" on "selfdroplet.app" and tried to play around with the gasTank example, as indicated. I'm supposed to type : HeatUp= (atoms do:[| a velocity: a velocity *1.5].self) Now, I use the French setting for the keyboard on my mac, and get strange results. I have no problem typing letters, but I just can't get the square brackets. On a French keyboard, it's on shift+alt+5 and shift+alt+° (the key on the right of the 0). I have to switch to an american keyboard setting to get these characters. Same problem with |, which is shift+Alt+l. This is unfortunate, since some letters are not at the same place on the French and American keyboards. The first row of letters begins with "AZERTY" instead of "QWERTY" for instance (whereas many other local keyboard differ only by non-letter characters). The obvious solution is to use the american keyboard setting with the keyboard viewer application to help me find the right keys, but that' s not very comfortable, especially after learning to type with 10 fingers ;) I'm using the latest mac os, OSX 10.5.6 on an Intel mac, with a french keyboard. Is there a way to correct this or should I way for a newer version? Jérome -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/non-english-keyboard-%28mac%29-tp2586107p2586107.html Sent from the Self mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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keyboard problems
by Jeremiah S. Junken 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

I have an older Dell Ispiron (8600) laptop running Ubuntu 8.1 as a desktop machine, with a keyboard connected via USB. keyboard is a painfully generic 101 key US keyboard. If it matters at all, it means that there are two keyboards connected. The USB subsystem regularly resets, and causes occasionally out-of-sync caps-lock-light and state or a dropped keypress, but things work perfectly well -- except for Self. When one of these reset events occurs, Self does accept any further keypresses, though all other X-apps work. Also, how can you get a snap to default to "local display"? is there a way to do that from commandline startup ?

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Self-interest April 2009