Tutorial

A Better Hello World

Some time ago we published an improved Hello World tutorial that shows you how to get started with Dolphin and its default user interface framework, Model View Presenter. With the recent release of Dolphin 7 to a wider open source audience, it seems useful to republish this. If you’re new to Dolphin, be sure to check out our Getting Started page first… More…
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Creating a GUI Application without using MVP

When we originally designed the Dolphin MVP framework we cautiously added the parallel ability to be able to create GUI applications in the older “widget” style. This video demonstrates how to get started using this alternative strategy. More…
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A Lights Out Game

When it comes to “Getting Started” tutorials one can’t really have enough of them. With that in mind, here’s another GUI application tutorial for Dolphin’s MVP framework. This time the aim is to create a simple game called “Lights Out”. More…
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Fun with Text 2 Speech

It’s very easy to add Text To Speech (TTS) facilities to your Smalltalk programs using an interface to the Microsoft Speech API. In this 5 minute video, I’ll take you through how it’s done. More…
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Messing with 3D in Dolphin Smallltalk

To keep my kids off the XBox in the summer vacation, I put together a 3D playground in Dolphin Smalltalk for them to mess around with. The result was Aragon3d, an object oriented wrapper around the popular Truevision3D library. More…
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Interfacing with ITunes via COM

Not only is it easy to interface to COM/ActiveX components in Dolphin Smalltalk but we like to think that the Dolphin development environment is one of the best places to experiment with various controls to test out their functionality. More…
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Programming Animation in Dolphin

In response to a request on the Dolphin Smalltalk newsgroup, Andy Bower takes you through an in-depth walkthrough of the steps to create an animated 2D Air Traffic Control game in Dolphin Smalltalk. More…
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