[BUG] Decoding problem in morph files WAS: [GOODIE] Personal Information Manager

Parker, Mike mparker at CaseServices.com
Thu Apr 13 16:49:49 UTC 2000


Worked fine on my 2.8 system under NT4SP6

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Torsten.Bergmann at phaidros.com
> [mailto:Torsten.Bergmann at phaidros.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:43 AM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: [BUG] Decoding problem in morph files WAS: [GOODIE] Personal
> Information Manager
> 
> 
> The Organizer works nicely but I cant read the
> morph file on windows.
> Seems like we have again a encoding/decoding problem while
> writing and reading (morph) files on different platforms.
> 
> If I try to file in the morph file from the tar
> (http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~gargus/organizer.tar.gz)
> on a windows system the debugger comes up and reports that 
> Squeak cant find a key in the Smalltalk dictionary.
> (SmartRefStream>>readInstance tries to evaluate 
> "Smalltalk at: newValue" where newValue is a
> symbol holding #Dictionary). 
> 
> I was suprised that the Smalltalk dictionary should not
> contain the key #Dictionary.
> Comparing the symbol in the Debugger with the same symbol 
> inspected from a workspace shows the problem:
> 
> #Dictionary in Workspace
>    68 105 99 116 105 111 110 97 114 121
> 
> #Dictionary while reading from the morph file.
> 10 68 105 99 116 105 111 110 97 114 121 4 0
> 
> So the symbol read from Joshua's morph-file has 3 Bytes more.
> I'm not at home so I cant test it on linux, but I think we
> should figure out these incompatibilities and fix them.
> 
> Was someone able to load the morph into his image ?
> 
> Bye
> Torsten
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Gargus [mailto:gargus at cs.ualberta.ca]
> Sent: Donnerstag, 13. April 2000 08:40
> To: Squeak Mailing List
> Subject: [GOODIE] Personal Information Manager
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I've finally whipped my PIM into a semi-releasable state.
> There are still some rough edges, but I can use it quite
> efficiently.
> 
> The file 'organizer.tar.gz' contains a 'readme.txt' file, two
> changesets (one is optional but suggested, see readme.txt),
> two '.obj' files which contain icons for the organizer, and
> 'organizer.morph', which is the documentation for the PIM.
> 
> I just noticed that the file is 329K (mostly due to the 
> documentation morph), so rather than clog the pipes of
> those with modems, I have placed the file at:
> 
> http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~gargus/organizer.tar.gz
> 
> Until I find a better home for it (on the swiki?)
> 
> 
> Code, comments, and crushing critiques welcome,
> Joshua
> 
> -- 
> 





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