Just Play It Grand...

I was reading the Seaside mailing list archives and came across this great post by Avi Bryant explaining to Todd Blanchard how to navigate to a new page. Avi posted back displaying how navigation can be accomplished using call/answer. He used a Guest List as his example. The mailing list entry can be found here.

The code in the list was old, so I decided this would be a good first example to convert to a newer state. You can grab the code and try it out by…

Get the squeak-web image.
Uncompress the file.
Open the squeak-web image by double clicking on it.
You can close any windows which are open. (ie. Script Manager and Preference Browser)
Left click to on the background image to get the World Menu.
Select ‘open…’
Open… menu appears.
Select ‘Monticello Browser’
In the Monticello Browser window…
Click +Repository
Select HTTP.
Enter…

MCHttpRepository
location: ‘http://justplayitgrand.com/mc/elhguestlist’
user: ”
password: ”

Click Accept.
Make sure the ‘http://justplayitgrand.com/mc/elhguestlist’ item is selected in the tableview on the right.
Click the Open button.
A Repository window will open.
Select ELHGuestBook in the left tableview and ELHGuestBook-elh.#.mcz in the right tableview (where # denotes a number, ie. 6 but just select the one with the highest number, ie. ELHGuestBook-elh.6.mcz)
Click Load.
Close the repository window.
Close the Monticello Browser window.
Now open up a browser by…
Left click on the background image.
World Menu appears.
Select open…
Select Class Browser or Image Browser.
At the very left are your categories.
Scroll and find ELHGuestBook-Model and ELHGuestBook-Views. (Mostlikely at the very bottom)
We have successfully loaded the code.
If you open up a Workspace by…
Click on the background image.
Select open…
Select Workspace.
In the Workspace type, WAKom startOn:9090.
Highlight the text you just typed above and click the middle mouse button (by default) and select Do it…
[Note: If Do It… does not appear in the menu, try right clicking and then select Do It…]
Now the Web Server has been started.
Open up a web browser and navigate to…
http://localhost:9090/seaside
You will see an item called ‘Guest List’
Click on the ‘Guest List’ item.
Now play with it and look at the code in the Class Browser in Squeak.

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