Kevin

On 21 January 1998 19:47, Kevin Driedger [SMTP:kdriedge at crosskeys.com] 
wrote:
>
> Thanks for the good work on the CE port!  Now I have to get started
> trying to bring up some interesting windows and developing applications
> for it.

No problem - I had a personal interest in demonstrating that Smalltalk 
could run on a handheld with 4Mb total storage (unlike some other languages 
I could mention), so doing the port suited me fine ;-).

> How is the port to R1.3 going?  Is there anything that I can help you
> out with?

I'm sorry to say that it isn't...going that is. The excuse is complicated: 
Due to the fact that the VC++ for CE cross compiler etc is not compatible 
with VC++ 5.0 service pack 2, (which I need for other work since it fixes a 
compiler bug which hits use of the C++ standard template library), AND the 
arrival of CE2.0, I have had to uninstall the development tools for CE1.0. 
I will need a window of at least two clear days to make it worthwhile going 
through the pain of temporarily reinstalling the original version of VC++ 
5.0 and the CE add-on, and at the moment I'm afraid I don't have much time 
to spare.

If you have the development tools yourself, then please feel free to try 
bringing it forward to 1.3, though I doubt the JIT version will fit in a 
1.0 machine. I notice that apart from being much faster, the new colour 
CE2.0 machines (e.g. HP) have 16Mb, so I was intending on doing the JIT 
version only for CE2.0 machines.

Otherwise the main area of concern is the manner in which the MVC browsers 
sometimes get into confused states due to the lack of mouse-moves (this 
needs to be repaired by delving into the controller hierarchy and fixing 
the tests in the polling loops so that they don't rely on moves while the 
mouse is up to terminate).

I hope you don't mind me CC'ing this to the Squeak list so that others know 
the state of play.

Regards

Blair