[self-interest] [Ann][Quack] Self 4.5.0 ("Mallard") released

[Bernat Romagosa]

Someone submitted the link to HN, just wanted to point out the discussion
thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7047953


2014/1/13 Chris Double <chris.double at double.co.nz>

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>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Baltasar <baltasarq at gmail.com> wrote:
> > #vm 'worldBuilder.self' _RunScript
>
> If you want to run these scripts, best to do it with cwd set to the
> 'objects' subdirectory. So I do:
>
> $ cd objects
> objects$ ../Self
> VM# 'worldBuilder.self' _RunScript
>
> I describe something like this at:
>
> <http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2009/07/27/building-and-using-self-on-linux.html
> >
>
> Note that the build instructions there are out of date but it should
> give you the idea.
>
>
> > Another, completely different issue is how bad the font is seen in
> Ubuntu. Maybe is just that the system font is too small in the title
> window, and in the buttons: Get it, Do it and Close. Can that be somehow
> fixed?
>
> Fonts are horrible, I agree. See my attempts at working on this here
> to get Xft support:
>
> <
> http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/self-interest/conversations/messages/2927
> >
>
>
> > Finally, in the self page the tutorial in:
> http://selflanguage.org/_static/tutorial/index.html is recommended. The
> problem is how to start. Nowhere is to be found how to create a new, empty
> object, so you can start with the balance example.
>
> To get an empty object evaluate: (| |)
> You can then add parents,etc from the GUI. Or you can also do: (|
> parent* = traits clonable |) copy
>
> If you do "Get it" vs "Do it" you get the object instance in the hand.
>
> --
> http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz
>
>  
>



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Bernat Romagosa.
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