Monthly Archives: February 2011

I needed initial support for in-memory compression/uncompression. Though I had wrapped this stuff already in my FreeImage library wrapper I wanted to have a standalone wrapper with a much smaller shared library (the freeImage library is a pretty large library … Continue reading →

I updated the NLS cat editor yesterday and introduced a so-called UTF8 storage mode. I needed this mode, because I develop in my native language – German – and then I also write all my messages in my methods during … Continue reading →

Joachim Tuchel, Sebastian Heidbrink und ich haben heute die erste Episode von “SmalltalkInspect” – einem Podcast rund um die Programmiersprache Smalltalk veröffentlicht.

Ok, the MSKResourceManager has been uploaded to vastgoodies.com and its doing its first work: Importing into and exporting from ENVY.

After years of being not satisfied how to handle external resources with my source code I decided to build a little goodie to get rid of this situation.

Due to 8.03 I updated the CodeManagement tool (my modelling tool to generate source code). The CodeManagement tool also now supports the ByteArray (for Smalltalk) or byte[] under C#.

I published today a “cat”-file editor at vastgoodies: MFNLSManagement. The “cat”-files contains the NLS versioned texts in various locales for your software and/or VA itselfs. The editor has been written around 2005 – but I never published it there, because … Continue reading →

Well the 8.03 update is not a pretty big step, therefore I can give a short overview on the new features I’ve found so far.

I think, that a new (?) bug has been entered the handling of the ini file. I have several directory defined under: [CommonGraphics] bitmapPath=D:\Program Files (x86)\Instantiations\VA Smalltalk\8.0\bitmaps\pum;D:\Program Files (x86)\Instantiations\VA Smalltalk\8.0\bitmaps;D:\Program Files (x86)\Instantiations\VA Smalltalk\8.0\bitmaps\icons;D:\Program Files (x86)\Instantiations\VA Smalltalk\8.0\bitmaps\resources; and the system only … Continue reading →

I did updates of VASmalltalk 8.02 on my two W7/64 machines. Actually the update seemed to have installed all stuff needed – but both: the client and the manager update (on both machines) ended with that typical error dialog, that … Continue reading →