Weekend Project Update [was: log me in!]

Kevin Fisher kgf at golden.net
Thu Jul 11 10:03:51 UTC 2002


Thanks Ian!

I gave things a quick test and the TeletypeWindow works jus fine with Zurgle
now.  The only gotcha is that Zurgle hides the SystemWindow menu so there's
no obvious way to get at it!  Still, it's easy to open shell by evaluating:
TeletypeWindow open owner newShell

Thanks very much!!

On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 05:50:45AM +0200, Ian Piumarta wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Ian Piumarta wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Kevin Fisher wrote:
> > > ...it claims labelArea doesn't exist.
> > 
> > I fixed some geometry problems last night and there are no more references
> > to labelArea in my current code.  If you can hang on for an hour or so
> > I'll make the new code available...
> 
> I've filed it out in the usual place.  This is mainly for two reasons: (i)
> It might let Kevin zurgle further with it and (ii) the 3.2-4 VM comes with
> a new (*much* more portable) PTY plugin requiring a couple of small
> (but significant) changes in the class PseudoTTY.
> 
> I've pulled PseudoTTY out of the "telnet" changeset to keep the two
> independent.  (The protocol of the former hasn't [and isn't likely to]
> change, but the primitives are now slightly *different* so you have to
> have the one that corresponds to your version of the VM... or else! ;)
> 
> The full story is at:
> 
>   http://www-sor.inria.fr/~piumarta/squeak/goodies.html
> 
> Sorry for any confusion.
> 
> FWIW, the current code fixes the drift-by-1-pixel resize bug in the
> top-level window when changing the label (turns out to be a bug in
> ProportionalLayout when hResizing is set to #shrinkWrap [so I just avoid
> having any layoutProperties at all and the bug shuts up ;]) and has put
> the VT options menu on the yellow button, as somebody recently requested.  
> Reverse video might behave a little more logically too.  Also the
> TelnetProtocol now understands a weirdo command that the BSD server was
> sending (and which did cause some problems).
> 
> Have fun!
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
> 



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