new mac VM, & new FFI prims

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Tue Nov 19 20:51:19 UTC 2002


THANKS for your job John.

an Happy mac user....
if all the smalltalks would have this kind of VM support, this would be  
a dream



On mardi, novembre 19, 2002, at 09:33  pm, John M McIntosh wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 04:28  AM, Bruce ONeel wrote:
>
>> Thanks to John M there is a new mac VM in:
>>
>> ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.4alpha/
>>
>> There also new FFI plugins for both carbon and noncarbon and
>> a new printjob plugin for noncarbon as well.
>>
>
> I'll point out the 3.4.0b2 VM is both for os-7.5.5-ox-9 thru to OS-X  
> 10.x.x  with support Croquet with the
> new FFI plugins.
>
> Still some presentation bugs with Croquet, non-working? full screen,  
> and artifacts in os-9. However I look
> to the Squeak Community to track those down.
>
>
> 3.4.0b2 (Croquet support)
> a) Ensure vmVersion information reports correct information, was bogus  
> in 3.4.0b1
> b) Added plugin BMPReadWriterPlugin 14 November 2002 (i)
> c) B3DAcceleratorPlugin.c gets primitiveCreateRendererFlags (new api)
> d) two more op codes get added to BitBltPlugin (fixAlphawith,  
> pixClearwith)
> e) Squeak3D gets (b3dOrthoNormInverseMatrix,  
> b3dTransformDirection,b3dTransformPoint,b3dTransposeMatrix)
> f) The scroll wheel mouse logic was using apple cmd key as the  
> modifier on the arrow key events, Other platforms use the Control key.  
> So the
> mac falls in line (changed to use the control-key)
>
> --
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>
>
Dr. Stéphane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch)  
http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
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  different? ... especially if, by doing something different, today
  might not be your last day on earth" Calvin&Hobbes





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