Method annotations or pragmas (VW terminology) is very powerful feature, that can be used in many cases - http://www.lukas-renggli.ch/blog/ignoring-lint-rules or VW style menu extension methods are just two of them. St/X support for user-defined annotations (I prefer the term "annotation" ...

Yeah, stc is a problem. Passing untranslated annotations in class-library *_Init(phase, pIF) routine is good idea. As a consequence, we cannot have compile-time checked annotations like Java ones (I'm not saying that we need this, just stating that we cannot have it). Is anyone willing to help worki...

Thanks for the tutorial! I'm trying to compile class my own library (sources: http://smalltalk.felk.cvut.cz/projects/stx-goodies/browser/xmlsuite/xmlreaderimpl/trunk . On Linux, everything compiles & work OK, but I cannot compile it on Windows box (using BCC5.5): c:\Borland\bcc55\bin\bcc32.exe -...

Claus,
Thanks. Don't worry, this is not a crucial issue for me.
Now, windows version is just nice-to-have

Huh, you did a lot of work already! Nice. The system you are describing is something I'm dreaming about (to say truth, many of my ideas are influenced by your post in VW wiki @ uiuc.edu). Actually, I'm trying to do my PhD in this area. I did some initial experiments, using SELF as a bootstrap langua...

We are creating Smalltalk/X binding to Xerces C++ validating parser. After we solved all the gcc vs g++ compilation, extern "C" wrapping etc, we run into following problem: in SAX content handler & input stream class we need to send a message to smalltalk and manipulate with return val...

For all of you who are using St/X on Linux and running Smalltalk/X from xterm. Following small script dynamically updates XTerm's title (in fact, it should work with any modern X terminal emulator such as gnome-terminal, xfce-terminal etc). It shows Smalltalk/X version and - if any - snapshot filena...

Hi,

I just realized that FFI machinery in Smalltalk/X 5.4.2 is broken.
For more details, see

I don't know any classes for that - or at least any classes in publicly available St/X version. On UNIX you can communicate directly via /dev/ttyS0 or similar. Unfortunately, there is no generic ioctl() interface. For accessing specific memory locations, it might be possible to use ExternalBytes cla...

OK. Please note, that FFI in 5.4.2 is broken (when C function returns a pointer, the highest bit lost and
thus the returned value becomes unusable. 5.3.6 release is perfectly OK.
(this bug is fixed in ExternalBytes.st r1.72)