Reminder: Ottawa Carleton Smalltalk Users Group meeting Oct 3

Reminder:  (Please email david@xxxxxxxxxxxx if you plan to attend).

The Ottawa Carleton Smalltalk Users Group will be holding its first 
meeting since the summer break on Thursday, Oct 3, 2002.

ElastoLab - A Physics Playground for Kids

David Buck
Simberon Incorporated

ElastoLab is a shrink-wrapped VisualWorks application that allows kids 
to design their own 2D scenes that incorporate physics elements like 
particles, springs, and gravity and lets them see their scenes animate 
in real-time.  Originally written in C++, it was later completely 
re-written in Smalltalk.

David will be talking about the development history and the design 
challenges in writing ElastoLab. The talk will explain:

  * how to interface to the Windows sound facilities from Smalltalk
  * how to make graphical applications run quickly
  * how to package a Smalltalk application for release
  * developing help facilities and guided tours
  * using the web toolkit to develop a message board on the Internet
    for ElastoLab.

A CD-ROM of the ElastoLab demo version will be available to all attendees.

Date and Time

Export Development Canada
151 O'Connor Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Thursday, Oct 3, 2002
7:00 p.m. (please arrive by 6:45)

Please RSVP to david@xxxxxxxxxxxx if you plan to attend.