Squeak Amp won't load on 3.2a #4599

Bob Hartwig bob at bobjectsinc.com
Fri Dec 14 04:04:01 UTC 2001


Just let it run once, then use the "Set Root Directory" menu item of the
"Available" pane to set the directory to something more appropriate (e.g.
/home/john/Win98/mp3s).  Then save your image and you should never again
have to wait for it to recurse through everything.

	-Bob


At 12:51 AM 12/14/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>Bob Hartwig wrote:
>> 
>> John,
>> 
>> I haven't loaded SqueakAmp on my Linux box, but here's a guess as to what
>> may be happening.  The postscript code of the GUI changeset opens
>> SqueakAmpMorph, and the first time this happens, it will populate the
>> "Available" file list by recursively descending the current working
>> directory.  
>
>Thanks Bob. The issue seems to be that (and this is pretty normal
>practice amongst Linux folk) I have my Windows directory mounted on my
>home (Linux) partition: that way I can use decent tools to edit stuff in
>Windows without the horror of actually having to boot into it. With the
>partition unmounted, SqueakAmp loads OK, but, of course, all my
>"entertainment" files, my Mpegs, mp3s, jpegs and such are on the Windows
>side! I'm currently waiting for the file list to refresh having
>re-mounted the Windows partition. But at least it loads!
>
>Such is life
>
>>Is it possible that you're starting squeak from a directory
>> that takes a long time to descend, or is it otherwise hanging while
>> descending?  To test this theory, stub out SquekAmpPlaylist>>allFiles or
>> SqueakAmpPlaylist>>allDiskObjects , and see if it comes up without hanging.
>> 
>> By the way, you also need to make sure the MPEG plugin works on your Squeak
>> install before you can hope for SqueakAmp to work.
>
>
>Cheers
>
>John
>
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