:-)
Well, if you do, why don't you try out Theirry package, and give him feedback (preferably in such a way that it is associated with my proposal for inclusion) and so we can get into Basic, or fix it if it isn't good enough?
Daniel
Ingo Hohmann ingo@2b1.de wrote:
I haven't delved deeply enough into squeak to talk about enhancements, but I find usability enhancements much more important. Especially being abel to use the keyboard is important to me (you know, I have one of them cordless mice, which you really _should_not_ forget to put onto their power station during the night ;-)
Kind regards,
Ingo
"Richard A. O'Keefe" ok@cs.otago.ac.nz noted he couldn't open a PICT file on a zip disk, and earlier this evening I discovered I couldn't open '.hidden' on my os-x root volume. This is a bug.
Attempting to open a file 'foobar.txt' on Volume 'fum' will fail, the path is fum:foobar.txt. This change set alters MacFileDirectory class>>isAbsolute: to consider that fum is a root thus fum:foobar.txt is a absolute pathname
This method is only used from these two places.
MacFileDirectory>>fullPathFor: path called by FileDirectory>>fullNameFor: fileName (which is called from a zillion places). which breaks the fileName into the localName (foobar.txt) and the filePath (fum) when we pass fum into isAbsolute yes it is a volume name, thus an absolute path name. The original test considered only if the first character was a ':' or if it contained a ':'
MacFileDirectory class>>makeAbsolute: called from ZipArchiveMember>>localFileName In this case if you supply /fum/foobar.txt, that becomes :fum:foobar.txt which always fails the isAbsolute test. If the localFileName is say foobar.txt then the logic in ZipArchiveMember>>localFileName calls MacFileDirectory class>>makeRelative: which makes the file :foobar.txt
However maybe someone who's a bit more knowledgable about zips/sars/archives/etc could confirm if it works ok. Remember to work at the root directory level, versus down in your documents folder. Working on a zip disk would great to avoid clutter on your main boot drive I'd guess.
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