Problems moving Seaside to port 80 on Windows

I booted up my Windows PC, and started Seaside, which defaults to running the web-server on port 8080.

I stopped the process, and changed the port number, (action-clicking on the the top pane of the Seaside control panel, then selecting 'Port...' from the menu), then re-starting, and got an error message.

I inferred from the error that port 80 was already in use.


So, at the  Windows command prompt  (Windows Start Menu, "cmd", or "cmd" and Shift-Control-Enter from an administrator account, to run with Administrator privileges)

NETSTAT -p tcp -ano

List all (-a) the ports using the TCP protocol  (-p tcp) in numerical form (-n), and display the process id (PID) for the owning process (-o).

This was good, but it gave a PID of 4112 - which was not appearing on the list of processes and services in Windows Task Manager.

I then ran :

tasklist /FI  "PID eq 4112" /FO table

Which lists the active tasks and processes /FIlterered by process Id equal to "4112", in the /FOrmat of a table  (can also be a list or a csv).

It turned out to be Skype that had control of port 80.  I killed Skype, and everything was ticketty-boo.

How to Meta-Click in Pharo and Squeak on Windows

How to Meta-Click
In Squeak and Pharo, on Windows, the default method to Meta-Click is to Shift+Alt+left-click
i.e. click : left-click
      action-click :  right-click
      meta-click: Shift+Alt+left-click


To change the behaviour in Pharo 1.4, use
    System > Settings > Settings Browser, then
    System > Keyboard > Control and Alt Keys.

Where Image files are stored
In both Squeak and Pharo, the image files are stored in  
   ..\Contents\Resources\*.image  (or *.ima)


The other default behaviour I have found, with Seaside On Squeak (3.0.6 on 4.3), is:
   click : left-click

   action-click :  Alt+left-click

   meta-click: right-click

Smalltalk

I've started Smalltalking again.

The plan is to use Smalltalk, and probably Seaside, to create the Fencing Competition App.

Ultimately, the app will work with intelligent clients, but initially, it'll all run on the server.

So I've started working through Pharo By Example Volume 1.