Squeak-dev April 1999

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RE: [bug] Directory Primatives in windows [Re: Your data is served...]
by Raab, Andreas 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

I'm sorry about the problem - the released VM didn't include the delete directory primitive. It will be fixed in the VM update (which will come Real Soon Now). Andreas -- +===== Andreas Raab ========= (andreasr(a)wdi.disney.com) ==+ | Walt Disney Imagineering Phone: +1 818 544 5016 I I Glendale, CA Fax: +1 818 544 4544 I +======< http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab >========+ > ---------- > From: Bijan Parsia > Reply To: squeak(a)cs.uiuc.edu > Sent: Friday, April 30, 1999 3:31 AM > To: squeak(a)cs.uiuc.edu > Cc: recipient list not shown > Subject: [bug] Directory Primatives in windows [Re: Your data is > served...] > > On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Stephen Travis Pope wrote: > [snip] > > YES, LOTS! > > Well, aside from basic bug chasing (they're still there, I know) and > > portability (it's only guaranteed to work on Macs at the moment, and it > > requires the new 2.4 directory primitives), I'm working on three main > > Well, I'm trying to get it up and running on Win98 and the first sticking > point is that FileDirectory>>deleteDirectory: always fails! Thus the > MinneStore compatability test always fail. They fail, seemingly, no matter > how I try to use them (e.g., simple tests outside of the MinneStore fair > no better). (Note: I've tried using the STP image version of MinneStore, > as well as a plain 2.4 image). > > Are the directory primities actually available for Windows? > > (OTOH, I'm *very* excited by MinneStore! Thanks for the port.) > > Cheers, > Bijan Parsia >

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RE: update 617 syntax error
by Raab, Andreas 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

The Windows version on http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab/squeak/Squeak.zip includes the released 2.4b image (I simply didn't sent out a message on this issue). Andreas -- +===== Andreas Raab ========= (andreasr(a)wdi.disney.com) ==+ | Walt Disney Imagineering Phone: +1 818 544 5016 I I Glendale, CA Fax: +1 818 544 4544 I +======< http://isgwww.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~raab >========+ > ---------- > From: John Buffington > Reply To: squeak(a)cs.uiuc.edu > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 9:58 PM > To: squeak(a)cs.uiuc.edu > Cc: recipient list not shown > Subject: Re: update 617 syntax error > > I've also experienced difficulties trying to update the original released > 2.4 image. Has anyone packaged up a 2.4b .zip file for us PC users? > Or... someone please list which files I'll need and where to get them. > Dan Ingalls wrote of changes from 2.4a to 2.4b on 4/23, but I cannot > find files bearing this date at the posted ftp site. > > Thanks, > John Buffington > > > on 4/29/99 Dwight wrote: > > >The original released 2.4 image thinks it's a 2.3 image with no updates. > >You should get the 2.4b files before updating. > > > >-- Dwight > > > >"Richard L. Peskin" wrote: > >> > >> In updating 2.4 I get a syntax error for update 617. Has anyone else > gotten > >> this? > >> Also, I am starting with the 2.4 (Mac) image. Yet, the latest updates > >> appear to have numbers like 1165, 1166, ....Should I be starting with a > >> different image (e.g. 2.4a)? > >> --dick peskin > >> > >

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Re: default text size problem.
by Scott.Wallace＠disney.com 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

Shaping, The recommended procedure for getting a fresh start with flaps (i.e. destroying all the old ones, and getting pristine new ones) is simply to evaluate: Utilities reinstateDefaultFlaps If you press the "about flaps" button in the "Squeak" flap, you'll get a window entitled "Flaps in Morphic", which contains documentation about flaps. You'll find a paragraph about reinstating flaps there, which inclues the above recommendation. -- Scott At 6:14 AM -0700 4/30/99, shaping(a)bigfoot.com wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: Dan Ingalls <DanI(a)wdi.disney.com> >To: Joshua Gargus <gargus(a)ugrad.cs.ualberta.ca> >Cc: <squeak(a)cs.uiuc.edu> >Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 1:17 PM >Subject: Re: default text size problem. > > >> Josh - >> >> >Yet another idea is to destroy the global flaps, and rerun >> >whatever initialization method(s) created them during the >> >filein process. I don't know how complicated this would be; >> >I've been unable to find out how to do this, either. >> >> Having just visited this region for other reasons (space reclamation), I >offer the following suggestion: >> >> 1. Use the preferences... window to set useGlobalFlaps to false. >> >> 2. Browse to System-Support/Utilities >> >> 3. In the class pane choose class vars to inspec the class variables >> >> 4. Select the item 'FlapTabs' -- it will show an orderedCollection >> >> 5. In the value pane, select all that, replace it by 'nil' (without the >quotes), >> and choose 'save' from the menu or use cmd-s >> >> This should put you in such a condition that, if you then turn the >useGlobalFlaps preferences on again, it will recreate things from scratch. > >Doing the above flush and rebuild in 2.4b creates a second set of flaps; the >original set is still there. Is this correct? > > >Shaping

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[?] How can I test for my platform in Squeak?
by Norton, Chris 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

Hi Folks. I must have my stupid hat on today... Can anybody tell me how I can determine what platform I'm running from within Squeak? My goal, obviously, is to muck around with some platform dependant stuff (i.e. I thought I'd try something that is Windows specific) and I'd like to ensure that my code won't blow up on one of the myriad other Squeak boxes that are out there. Thanks! ---==> Chris

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Re: [PWS] PWS only meant for Swiki?
by Reinier van Loon 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

Well, I don't want a Swiki. I want a different kind of web server. I fixed my problem by removing the checkVersion send and fixing ServerAction class>>serverDirectory. Now, I have something like: J:\Squeak2.4b\Server\ with all kinds of HTML documents in it and I'm able to serve pages long as there is a default.html. Accessing a non-existent file gave a problem. Below is the fix. Running the PWS on NT4.0 without SP4 gave all kinds of hangs on the browser. Running the same image from a different machine with NT4.0/SP4 was painless. I was just "complaining" about the fact that PWS has become very Swiki-oriented (e.g. PWS>>initializeAll, CodeServer>>smtlk: etc.). IMNSHO, there should be a SwikiServer which is implemented with a PWS. It looks like pluggability and its application are intermixed. Reinier. 'From Squeak 2.4b of April 23, 1999 on 30 April 1999 at 8:38:50 pm'! !ServerAction methodsFor: 'URL processing' stamp: 'RvL 4/30/1999 20:38'! replyTo: pieces from: request "Transcript show: 'Reply: ', pieces; cr." (StandardFileStream isAFileNamed: pieces) ifTrue: [ request reply: PWS success; reply: PWS contentHTML, PWS crlf. request reply: (FileStream fileNamed: pieces) contentsOfEntireFile] ifFalse: [ request reply: PWS notFound, PWS crlf.]. "was request error: PWS notFound" ! !

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Re: [PWS] PWS only meant for Swiki?
by Carl Gundel 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

I had the same problem. I created a Swiki called OOPSLA98 and set the server path to 'c:\Squeak\WebServer\OOPSLA98\' but this is wrong. You must leave the name of the Swiki out like so: 'c:\Squeak\WebServer\'. Hope this helps, Carl >From: "Reinier van Loon" <R.L.J.M.W.van.Loon(a)inter.nl.net> >Reply-To: squeak(a)cs.uiuc.edu >To: "Squeak Mailing List" <squeak(a)cs.uiuc.edu> >Subject: [PWS] PWS only meant for Swiki? >Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 18:27:53 +0200 > >I tried to use a PWS for something else then a Swiki. I created a Server >directory, but did not copy the files as mentioned. I copied the method >initializeAll and stripped some actions. I tried to start the server but I >got the message > >'The path to the Server folder is wrong. >Please modify the following method ...' > >But the path to the Server folder wasn't wrong, there was a folder Server. > >It turned out that the path to ...\Server\Swiki\page.html did not exist. > >This would have been no problem if I had copied the server folder and it's >easily fixed by stripping the checkVersion message send. > >But the message is misleading. And I think the checkVersion method is bit >Swiki minded. We should put something like that in a method called >checkSwiki. > >Or is PWS only meant for Swiki's? > >Macarena. > _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com

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Re: 2.4b FileDirectory>>fileExists:
by Lex Spoon 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

Unix uses case-sensitive filenames. It's one of those religious debates as to which way is "better". But there are ways to make Squeak work the right way on each operating system. The best, IMHO, is to have a "file exists" primitive. Such a system allows wierd-cased systems (what if you use the Scandinavian notion of upper/lower case that IRC uses?), and it also easily handles the situation where only some directories on the system use case-sensitive filenames. This could happen, for instance, on a Unix box that had a DOS partition mounted. Lex Bob Arning <arning(a)charm.net> wrote: > > A recent change to FileDirectory>>fileExists: makes the test for a given file case-sensitive. I noticed this when 2.4b couldn't find the sources file even though I had copied one from a working 2.4beta directory. Changing the name to exactly 'SqueakV2.sources' solved that. Since most (all for Squeak?) operating systems are not case-sensitive, it might be nice to retain the old behavior. Code to do so follows. > > Cheers, > Bob > > 'From Squeak 2.4b of April 23, 1999 on 30 April 1999 at 12:53:43 am'! > > !FileDirectory methodsFor: 'testing' stamp: 'RAA 4/30/1999 00:52'! > fileExists: filenameOrPath > "Answer true if a file of the given name exists. The given name may be either a full path name or a local file within this directory." > "FileDirectory default fileExists: Smalltalk sourcesName" > > | fName dir | > FileDirectory splitName: filenameOrPath to: > [:filePath :name | > fName _ name. > filePath isEmpty > ifTrue: [dir _ self] > ifFalse: [dir _ FileDirectory on: filePath]]. > fName _ fName asLowercase. > ^ (dir fileNames detect: [ :each | each asLowercase = fName ] ifNone: [nil]) notNil > ! !

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Re: [Q] Can I use Squeak2.4b image for Window in Linux ?
by Reinier van Loon 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

Should be no problem. Reinier.

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[UPDATES]
by Dan Ingalls 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

Folks - I just put out 1175 and 1176, which includes... A fix to TextOnCurve that got broken by the faster type-in code. A fix to classComment: submitted by Mark Guzdial. A fix to FileDirectory fileExists: that makes filename matching be case-insensitive with an override in UnixFileDirectory for case-sensitivity. Enjoy - Dan

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[ENH] blurred LCD
by Reinier van Loon 30 Apr '99

30 Apr '99

Folks, maybe the following change set is interesting: http://www.2share.com/squeak/Sisi.30Apr616pm.cs Description: Sisi lets Squeak take it easy when a mouse button is down, i.e. Squeak does not consume 100% CPU when a mouse button is down in a paragraph, a pop up menu or a scroll bar. Funny enough, CPU consumption was not the main reason why I did this change set. No, I did it because the characters on my 15 inch LCD blurred when a mouse button was down!!!!!! It also sets the standard minimal activity lapse to 100, which works nicer for a Pentium II at 450 MHz with Windows NT 4.0. Regards, Reinier

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