Good of you to dig this up.  It's one of the few type errors I've ever
ru into in Smalltalk.  That variable should never be set to a string,
much less to something that's not a valid URL.


Anyway, the simplest thing is to change the '' initialization to
something like:

	'scamper:startingup' asUrl

I believe someone posted a patch to this long ago, but I guess it
slipped through the cracks.


-Lex




Mark Mayfield <mmayfield at ev1.net> wrote:
> Greetings...
> 
> In Scamper>>jumpToNewUrl if the instance variable currentUrl is a string,
> then the message toText is not understood. currentUrl is initialized as an
> empty string, and when the default startup page does not load (like when
> the Squeak Swiki is down), then when you try to jump to a new URL by
> selecting the menu option 'new URL', you get a MessageNotUnderstood:
> toText. The work around is to type the new URL into the top window, but it
> would be nice not to get the pink debugger window when you select a menu
> option :-)
> 
> Mark