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Re: [Help-smalltalk] Re: Using Sockets
From: |
Paolo Bonzini |
Subject: |
Re: [Help-smalltalk] Re: Using Sockets |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:56:40 +0100 |
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 10:24, Aidan Gauland <address@hidden> wrote:
> Aidan Gauland <aidalgol <at> no8wireless.co.nz> writes:
>> gnu-smalltalk-el from sid did not load properly, so I chose to build
>> GST 3.2.3. My socket code no longer crashes gst. Thank you very
>> much!
>
> Claimed victory too soon. It doesn't crash, but I have no idea what
> I'm doing. I think I once figured out how to create send a string
> over a TCP connection in Squeak, but I hadn't a clue what I was doing.
> I was just hacking Smalltalk in highschool when I was bored. I've
> done a little with sockets in C, but only going through tutorials.
>
> Could someone please give me an example of using Sockets in Smalltalk
> for client-side stuff (or better yet, put it on the wiki)? There are
> a few decent *server* examples on the wiki, but no Smalltalk client as
> counterparts for them.
Sockets are just streams, you use them with normal
#nextPutAll:/#nextLine/#next:/#flush methods.
For simple examples of clients you can look at the SMTP classes in
packages/net/SMTP.st. I'll prepare some examples in the next few
days.
Paolo