[Newbies] Porting an old app to a recent image

[Karl Ramberg]

Matthias Korn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> attached is the class I tried to fileIn, which also throws the error.
>
> Thanks,
> Matthias
>   
Tested on 3.8 image:
You can left click on the red text in the syntax error and proceede.
Code seems to be dependent on ScratchPlugin .
 There is also a problem with StrikeFont initializion.
If you leave a Trancript open you will see file in messages.

Karl
>
> Am Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:46:57 +0200
> schrieb stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse at free.fr>:
>
>   
>> this is really strange.
>> can you select one class of your app and fileout it and send it?
>>
>> stef
>>
>> On Oct 9, 2008, at 3:37 PM, Matthias Korn wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I already tried to fileIn a minimal part (one Morph class) of the
>>> application I want to port and started resolving the errors in the
>>> debugger one by one. Still, now I am stuck with the following error:
>>> Metaclass(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #category
>>> (the full Stack Trace is attached)
>>>
>>> Were there some changes in the Metaclass between V2 and V3 that  
>>> explain
>>> this error?
>>>
>>> Thanks for the hint, though Karl. I didn't know about that  
>>> possibility.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Matthias
>>>
>>>
>>> Am Wed, 8 Oct 2008 18:07:55 +0200
>>> schrieb Karl Ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Matthias Korn wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> is there some documentation, help, tools, etc. to port a Squeak
>>>>> app written in SqueakV2.sources to a recent image?
>>>>>
>>>>> fileOut -> fileIn gives me all sorts of error messages I cannot
>>>>> understand/debug.
>>>>>
>>>>> I actually just want to port parts of the app to re-use the code.
>>>>> But it proofs really difficult for me
>>>>>           
>>>> Hi,
>>>> in FileList you can try to look at the code with the CodeBrowser.
>>>> Select the file you want to load, press the code button, or select
>>>> browse code from the context menu.
>>>> This will load the code in a temporary way and you can browse it
>>>> and see the methods that change, and file in the parts you want.
>>>>
>>>> Karl
>>>>         
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