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Sometimes it's difficult to explain why Smalltalk is so compelling.

If you've watched the videos and you can understand what we mean, why not take the plunge and Get Into Smalltalk? Start with the free Community Edition of Dolphin available from:

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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.

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In this video, the topics covered are:

  • How to use the ActiveX Component Wizard to generate COM interface classes
  • Browsing the interface classes to discern their functionaility
  • Experimenting with the COM component in a Workspace
  • Using an AXEventSink to receive ActiveX events
  • How to turn on AX event tracing
  • Registering for the Smalltalk equivalent of the AX events

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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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