Ok ... Ill be the one to say it !

Cobalt port for the IPad? ..... Thoughts (given its hardware)? .....
for $499 I can picture a lot of kids hands on these things in schools.

(Someone had to say it eventually LOL - guess Ill be "that guy" today)

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On 27.01.2010, at 23:51, Rich White wrote:

> Cobalt port for the IPad? ..... Thoughts (given its hardware)? .....
> for $499 I can picture a lot of kids hands on these things in schools.
>
> (Someone had to say it eventually LOL - guess Ill be "that guy" today)

As they use iPhone OS there, I guess old rules still apply. And those are: no external runtimes allowed (which includes smalltalk runtime).
I would be glad, if someone proves me wrong :)

On 27.01.2010, at 13:03, Alexey Zakhlestin wrote:
The two Squeak apps sold in the App Store do prove you wrong.

- Bert -

Actually it's six apps and two expose the morphic desktop

John McIntosh wrote:
> Actually it's six apps and two expose the morphic desktop
>
>  

Does that include the ability to script buttons and the like using squeak?


Lawson

You can use a objective-c bridge proxy object (ObjectiveCSqueakProxy) to trigger smalltalk code to run on UI interaction.
It's explained in a talk I gave at ESUG 09 last year.

http://vst.ensm-douai.fr/ESUG2009Media/uploads/1/esug09TalkIphoneFinal2.pdf

A more current example would be the Scratch.app, which we just provided remote sensor enabling and iPad support for.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/scratch/id358266270?mt=8

In Scratch.app the presentation view controller exposes the Scratch desktop, the Scratch image updates the project text comments,
and a proxy object handles the green GO, red STOP icons to run/stop the project.However the zoomabilty, web, and keyboard icons are all under
the control of the presentation space view controller.  The login screen, and webview are separate view controllers controlled by the objective-c program.

On 2010-04-06, at 2:09 PM, Lawson English wrote:

> John McIntosh wrote:
>> Actually it's six apps and two expose the morphic desktop
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>>  
>
> Does that include the ability to script buttons and the like using squeak?
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>
> Lawson

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