Pocket Smalltalk 1.5 Special Edition
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12.19.2000

This version of Pocket Smalltalk is based on the 1.5 
version of PST, currently distributed by Eric Arseneau 
(eat@huv.com), and available from www.pocketsmalltalk.com. 
It includes additions by Petr Novak (Petr.Novak@i.cz) and 
Joey Gibson (joey@joeygibson.com). 

Pocket Smalltalk (PST) is a Smalltalk IDE for Windows 
systems (95, 98, 2000 and presumably ME) that creates 
programs for the Palm family of devices from Palm Computing 
(www.palm.com). Thanks to Petr, it now can also create 
programs for the Nokia 9110 Communicator. 

PST is still very much in development, so I wouldn't 
try to write mission-critical software with it (yet!). 
However, it is quite stable and probably appropriate 
for many jobs. Of course, none of us can be held
responsible for any damages resulting from the user of
PST.

PST is an open source project so anyone who wants to 
help out is invited to do so. You can get the source code 
for the original 1.5 stock PST from www.pocketsmalltalk.com 
You can get the source for the SE version from 
www.joeygibson.com/st If you want to help out, contact 
Eric, Petr or myself (Joey) or just dive in and start 
submitting enhancements. Please see the LICENSE.txt file 
included with this distribution for further information.

If you want to download the source, you will need Dolphin
Smalltalk 4.0 to work with it. This is the latest version of
Dolphin, and is unbelievably inexpensive. Check out
www.object-arts.com for details.

If you find any problems with this version, you can 
email me, or post to the PST list at egroups.com 
(pocketstug) for assistance. I have tested the PalmOS 
portion quite a lot and have not found any problems other 
than the ones listed below. I have no way of testing the 
GEOS code so if you can, perhaps you could let me know 
how/if it works.

But most of all have fun. Smalltalk itself is fun tow work
in, and PST is no exception. It's at least better than
writing C code!

Joey Gibson (joey@joeygibson.com)
12.19.2000

Release Notes
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1.5 SE Changes:

0.  Fixed some problems with some of the toolbar buttons 
    not being wired up properly.

1.  I've enlarged all of the windows to 640@480. The 
    smaller size really annoyed me and I always found 
    myself enlarging the windows when I opened them.

2.  I've included my tutorial instead of the original one. 
    This tutorial was written before the toolbars were 
    added, but it is still the most current tutorial.

3.  Full GEOS support!

4.  When you start a new project, all of the required 
    packages are automatically loaded, and marked as 'do 
    not save with project.' This seemed like a logical 
    change since you had to do this every time you created 
    a project. I hate repetitive actions…

5.  The default project type is PalmOS.

1.5 SE Known Bugs;

0.  The wait cursor doesn't display properly when loading 
    packages. This is really apparent when creating a GEOS 
    project since it takes quite some time to load all of 
    the GEOS packages. If you open the package browser 
    before the loading is finished, you will see only a 
    partial list of loaded packages. Close it and reopen 
    it and you'll see more. Nothing fatal, just annoying.

1.  If you are working on a project for PalmOS and then 
    try to open an existing project for GEOS (or vice-
    versa), the system will not reset to the appropriate 
    type. In other words, working on a PalmOS project and 
    opening a GEOS project will leave the IDE in the 
    PalmOS mode instead of switching to GEOS. I'm working 
    on this. The workaround is to create an empty project 
    of the desired type (don't save it), and then load the 
    existing project.