Create a simple space

This is probably a silly question.

I've been trying for who knows how long to initialize a simple space. I need to develop some working prototypes and I've run into a brick wall. I've bought and read books on Squeak, and I can build simple things in Squeak... I'm in frustration city here!

Could someone give me a simple script for initializing a space with a floor and a light? Something I can paste into a workspace, accept, and do it?

That's all I need to get started... and I've been banging my head on this for months...

I don't doubt that this is like 3 lines of code and is likely trivial for one of our Squeak/Smalltalk gods...

Many, many thanks,

Matt

Matthew Schmidt wrote: I'm new to it too, but had success with the tutorial series at:

http://www.dmu.com/crb/crb0.html

Try jumping to the "receiving classes" page, import the four classes as
discussed, then run the code suggested in a workspace.

I managed to get a simple world going which I can now modify - mucking
around with dragcubes with sound and music samples attached to them -
ludicrous amounts of fun!

Denis

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Look at class SimpleWorld. Its initialize method is a script for setting
up an extremely simple world.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Matthew Schmidt wrote:

Matthew Schmidt wrote:
> Vielen Dank für die Antwort, Andreas.

Nix zu danken.

> I've tried that multiple times... No matter what I do, I get an error
> (see screenshot below).
>
> http://lh3.google.com/matthew.schmidt/RwQ-tmS80VI/AAAAAAAABUc/SbuxJ2tRLus/s800/Picture%201.png

Yes, I see. The problem is that you are missing 90% of the setup code
that is required to get a Croquet world going. You need to create a
replicated island first, and then you need to put this stuff in there.
What I would recommend you do is to modify SimpleWorld itself or create
a copy of SimpleWorld (call it MySimpleWorld) and replace the use of
SimpleWorld in CroquetHarness>>setupMaster (first line) with
MySimpleWorld. This will allow you to do your experiments.

In any case, just executing this script in a workspace, without the
necessary environment to run in, can't work.

Cheers,
   - Andreas