[croquet-dev] Re: [Newbies] Quinto game in SBE

[Andreas Raab]

Hi David -

If you can find a bit of time to assemble a set of patches which will 
make those examples work, I'd be happy to fold them into the system to 
make sure these examples work out of the box.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

David Corking wrote:
> Bill Kerr wrote:
> 
>> Problems:
>> 1) the final line of the SBECell initialize method:
>> self turnOff
>> triggers a MessageNotUnderstood error
>> doesNotUnderstand: #turnOff
> 
> ...
> 
>> turns out that my problem was that I was using an old 3.8 image
>>
>> I learnt from the book how to file out and file in - as soon as I tested my
>> code in the 3.9 image it worked fine!
>>
>>  A friend sent me some other information from the bugs site pointing out a
>> bug in SimpleSwitchMorph in earlier versions:
>>  http://bugs.squeak.org/print_bug_page.php?bug_id=3530
>>
>>  Summary:        0003530: SimpleSwitchMorph does not actually implement
>> switch functionality
> 
> In 2007,  many people's introduction to Squeak may be with an image
> derived from 3.8 (*).  So I wonder if the book should not mention this
> patch prominently at the start of the First Application chapter.
> 
> By the way, I probably learned a lot about Squeak by wrestling with
> this for a while this weekend without access to internet or a 3.9
> image :)
> 
> David
> 
> (*) such as Croquet SDK, OLPC Etoys ...
>