Hi,

    I just encountered another walkback as I tried to 'Copy' (Alt. c) the
title of  'SWT Code Configurations' window (Squeak VM 3.1 Alpha1):

'Error: a primitive has failed'

'SystemDictionary>>clipboardText:'

 "<primitive: 141>
 ^ self primitiveFailed"

    The 'New title for this window' window cannot be dismissed with neither
'Accept' nor 'Cancel' !

    It looks like only 'SWT Code Configurations' and 'Squeak World Tour
Bootstrap' windows suffers this problem.

    Cheers,

    PhiHo

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andres Valloud" <sqrmax at prodigy.net>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 8:02 PM
Subject: Re: The VM is in the Swiki


> Hi.
>
> > Hopefully when he has time to play with SWT 0.6, he will post
> > another fix for the new exception handling.
>
> It would be good to have a compatibility module in the repository.
>
> What I still do not understand is why it is necessary to change the
> primitive numbers, or why it is necessary to check from Smalltalk what
> kind of exception support is in the VM.  We're just making images and
> VMs incompatible with each other.  I think it would be much easier to
> make VMs polymorphic from a primitive behavior point of view, but I'll
> welcome any illuminating comments any of you may have.
>
> Andres.
>
>