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We have placed these Dolphin Smalltalk videos on the Smalltalk channel at Blip. Their player gives you the ability to watch in fullscreen mode if you wish. However, the disadvantage is that there are no chapter markers in the shows as there are with QuickTime.

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Videos Library

Most of the time it's easier for us to understand by seeing rather than by just reading. With this in mind, we have opened our new video library.

Over time, we hope this will build into an extensive collection of "how to" information for both seasoned Dolphin programmers and those who are just starting to get into Smalltalk.

Interfacing with ITunes COM
Not only is it easy to interface to COM/ActiveX components in Dolphin Smalltalk but we like to think that the Dolphin development environment is one of the best places to experiment with various controls to test out their functionality. In this 15 minute programme, Andy Bower, shows how to bring an ITunes component into Dolphin and then how to hold an interactive dialog with the available interfaces.
15 April 09
Programming Animation in Dolphin Smalltalk (Part 1)
In response to a request on the Dolphin Smalltalk newsgroup, Andy Bower takes you through an in-depth walkthrough of the steps to create an animated 2D Air Traffic Control game in Dolphin Smalltalk.
24 February 09
Programming Animation in Dolphin Smalltalk (Part 2)
Continuing his walkthrough detailing how to create an animated Air Traffic Control game in Dolphin, Andy Bower show you how to get flicker free animation and dynamically interact with your game objects.
25 February 09
Programming Animation in Dolphin Smalltalk (Part 3)
In the third part of this series on how to create an animated game with Dolphin, Andy Bower shows you how to create an application window out of a number of GUI components.
2 April 09
Programming Animation in Dolphin Smalltalk (Part 4)
In the fourth video of this series, Andy Bower shows you how to tidy up the loose ends and add the user interaction logic to the Dolphin Air Traffic Control game.
2 April 09
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29 September 2009
Getting pretty pictures into Dolphin applications has typically demanded the use of external file resources which can be inconvenient. Now help is at hand. [more]

16 April 2009
Dolphin's MVP framework continues to appear daunting to new Smalltalk users and yet it's really rather similar to Visual Basic but with "more wing nuts". Perhaps revisting the design rationale behind MVP might help? [more]

4 April 2009
As you may know, we launched the Dolphin video library about a month ago with the start of a series of in-depth screencast videos showing how to use Dolphin Smalltalk to build an animated game. Well, I've just released the final two parts to this series and also included the source files for download. [more]

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