OK. I use a Wacom tablet, the problem was caused by those drivers. Intrigued by your mention of a more recent version of the Mac VM, I did some digging. I found on the UIUC server what appears to be the most recent version, 3.0.18. That has solved the problem with the Wacom drivers.
Perhaps the link to the package that is available via the most obvious path to a newcomer, at squeak.org, should be updated.
Thanks for the tip.
Cheers, Glenn
Glenn,
Then it sounds as if perhaps you have a conflict with some *other* extension or control panel. Have you tried booting with extensions off and seeing if the problem goes away?
John McIntosh's VM change that purports to fix this kind of problem arrived in the version he labeled "Squeak 3.0.11", dated April 8th. I *believe* that this VM, or some successor, is available on the public FTP sites.
John's covering memo for 3.0.11 included the following paragraph:
- Mouse clicks from foreground applications should not affect
Squeak, even if the foreground window is floating. (Bob gets to test this). Issues with NAV should also be fixed (But I've not tested that, perhaps Scott can check this).
HOWEVER note that 3.0Alpha8MT is dated February 2001 so it would predate this change. Could it really be that 3.0Alpha8MT is the most recent VM that's been made public? That would be hard to believe. However, I have no personal experience downloading from public Squeak servers.
John: Does any of this ring any bells with you?
Cheers,
-- Scott
At 3:09 PM -0400 7/31/01, Glenn S. Fisher wrote:
I'm not using NAV. I am using Virex, so I disabled that just for kicks and restarted. No difference. I just DL'd Squeak again, and it's the same as the one I got about a month ago. The VM appears to be Squeak 3.0Alpha8MT. I have both the image that came in that package, and the fully updated 3.1 image. They both behave the same way. For what it's worth I'm on a Mac G4 with OS 9.04.
Thanks, Glenn
Glenn,
This phenomenon has been seen when running older versions of the Mac VM on systems that have the Norton Antivirus extension installed.
I believe that recent Mac VM's claim not to have this problem (starting, IIRC, with 3.0.11) though I've never actually heard positive confirmation of this.
For a start, try disabling the NAV extension (if you're using it) and see if the problem goes away. Then try installing a newer version of the VM, re-enable NAV, and see if all is well.
Please let us know what you find out!
Cheers,
-- Scott
At 12:06 PM -0400 7/31/01, Glenn S. Fisher wrote:
... I'm working on a Mac and noticing a strange and annoying behavior. When I move another active application window in front of the Squeak window, the Squeak window remains active, sort of. Mouse movements and clicks pass through the active application window to the Squeak window and cause menus to open, items to be selected, etc. This doesn't happen if I remember to collapse the Squeak window, so there is a work around. It's just a little annoying.
-- Glenn S. Fisher CTO Websound, Inc. 802.254.3800 ext.202 gfisher@websound.com
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