You Spoke, We Listened—Cincom Smalltalk™ Maintenance Releases
These are true maintenance releases that are refinements of the major releases.
Category: ObjectStudio
Running Cincom® ObjectStudio® Headless
The first time I got a question about running ObjectStudio headless (i.e., without any GUI running), I was a little taken aback. “We can’t do that”, I thought. “ObjectStudio was written as a Windows GUI application.” I figured it would take some careful redesign work to disentangle the Windows GUI assumptions, but I was wrong. [...]
Jan 16, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
Symbol/String Equality and the Cincom® ObjectStudio® LegacyCompiler
ObjectStudio now uses the core Collection hierarchy from VisualWorks.
Nov 15, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Model Editor
This month we are going to discuss the Cincom® ObjectStudio® Model Editor.
Oct 14, 2011 | 0 comments | View Post
Array Binding and Array Fetching in ODBC Connects
Using array binding and array fetching can greatly improve the performance of many applications by trading buffer space for time.
The Glorp Object Relational Mapping Framework Using the Powerful Cincom® ObjectStudio® Development Environment Highlighted at ESUG
Glorp is specifically designed to keep you moving fast where a legacy data requirement would be knocking others off the rails. We will show you how the graphical modeling and mapping tools of ObjectStudio let you understand the existing applications and fit the vital new features into them.
Aug 12, 2011 | 3 comments | View Post
System>>whenIdleSend:to:args: – Blessing or Curse?
Microsoft Windows has one thing in common with Smalltalk: It works by sending messages. A Windows message can also be “posted,” i.e., it is put at the end of the Windows message queue, and the sender doesn’t wait for a synchronous response. The idle queue in Cincom® ObjectStudio® classic was designed in part to mirror [...]
GLORP Database Converters
While working on the new Cincom® ObjectStudio® mapping tool that generates code for the object-relational mapping framework GLORP, we built some GUI for handling database converters.
Setting a Startup Controller with the Runtime Packager in Cincom® ObjectStudio® 8.3
This article describes a new feature that’s being introduced in the ObjectStudio 8.3 Runtime Packager and compares it to ObjectStudio 8.2.1 and earlier versions.
Controlling Load Order in Cincom® ObjectStudio® 8.3
For ObjectStudio 8.3 we moved all Smalltalk source code that was still file based into Store, which gives us a much nicer source code control mechanism.
