Hi!
Having found the Io language, I am very pleased. After Googling a little, I saw that the web does not offer very much in the way of resources. Which was fine by me, because I just Skyped a friend of mine, who walked me through the basic bits, defining the fine print for me.
The trouble came today, after reading and thinking a bit more. I am currently on Windows with Io, which hampers my progress a bit. The examples in the Apps dir do not run, as ResourceManager.io somehow can not be found.
I tried to solve this by adding all dirs with Io-stuff to my path, but to no avail.
Perhaps I should copy the file to a the same dir as the caller. Result: the included files are found, but after a few copying more and more stuff into the same dir I got another type of error:
TextureGroup: missing textures in set Buttons/PushLabel Line Char Message
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doString 131 3488 raise("TextureGroup", "missing textures )...
Calc 5 70 Button
Importer 38 1084 find(thisMessage name)
[unlabeled] 0 0 execute_io(p, name, extension)
Importer 18 497 executeString(name, s)
doString 13 268 setTexturesPath("Buttons/Push")
doString 10 228 openSet(path)
doString 25 773 loadGroupNamed(path)
- What are these Buttons?
- What is a Texture?
- How do I manipulate Io to add along lines of my PATH?
Anyway, I find the syntax interesting, the concept of “slots” very smart. My mentor told me about the likeness with JavaScript and alerted me to the existence of two interesting JS OO articles at Sitepoint.
