[Cuis-dev] Hello, new Cuis smalltalk user here!

[Joseph Turco]

I am running it on a Core 2 duo vpro (64 bit) with 2GB of ram. I am planning on upgrading the ram and swapping out the HDD with a SSD or another mechanical drive. I'm using the squeak VM that is listed in the install instructions, and I've also used the one that's built into the "Cuis university" package. I moved the wireless keyboard receiver to the front of my computer and it helped. But I get slight hiccups with input very rarely now. I never got it in official squeak packages (v5.3). It might be my computer as its aged as you can tell from what processor family I am quoting.

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On Jul 16, 2021, 12:35 PM, Juan Vuletich wrote:

> Cuis should run reasonably well on anything with at least 1GHz and 2GB. What CPU are you using ? How much RAM? What VM? Is that a 32bit or 64bit OS? Do you feel keyboard input lag on Squeak too? Other apps? Do you see mouse lag too?
>
> On 7/15/2021 11:00 AM, Joseph Turco via Cuis-dev wrote:
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>> Juan I had another question for you or anyone really. On my desktop (she's a bit old) I'm getting some input lag. The distro I'm using is AntiX, and doesn't use system.d. is this a problem for Cuis?
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>> On Jul 14, 2021, 2:34 PM, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev < cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
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>>> Hi Joseph,
>>>
>>> On 7/14/2021 3:24 PM, Joseph Turco via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I hope I am not bothering anyone with this question(s), I am a new
>>>> smalltalker and programmer. I decided to use Cuis because its more in
>>>> line with smalltalk-80, where its easier to find beginner (beginner in
>>>> the programming sense) books.
>>>
>>> Welcome to Smalltalk and Cuis!
>>>
>>>> I am currently reading 'smalltalk, objects, and design, by Chamond
>>>> Liu. Is this a good book? I know the 'blue book' exists, but it
>>>> assumes you can already program.
>>>
>>> Yes, it is a very good book. But also keep in mind we wrote a book
>>> specifically for newcomers to Cuis!
>>> https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/TheCuisBook
>>>
>>> There is also a good amount of documentation in the Documentation folder
>>> in Cuis, in https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Learning-Cuis and in
>>> https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Learning-Cuis .
>>>
>>>> My second question was the resolution of the VM. I noticed VS squeak
>>>> the windows were much smaller (higher resolution screen layout) than
>>>> Cuis, this really isn't a problem, more so, did I not configure
>>>> something correctly? Please excuse my ignorance.
>>>>
>>>> - Joseph
>>>
>>> Both in Squeak and in Cuis you can evaluate
>>>
>>> Display extent
>>>
>>> to get the size of the Display as seen by Smalltalk. It is best if this
>>> matches the physical screen resolution (although that is not the default
>>> on MacBooks). In any case, the difference you see is because in Cuis the
>>> default fonts are larger than Squeak's. This is configurable in Cuis.
>>> Play a bit with the World menu.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Juan Vuletich
>>> www.cuis-smalltalk.org
>>> https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev
>>> https://github.com/jvuletich
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>>> @JuanVuletich
>>>
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