[Newbies] Re: Quinto game in SBE

[Bert Freudenberg]

Likewise for OLPC.

- Bert -


On Sep 24, 2007, at 19:14 , Andreas Raab wrote:

> 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 ...