Hi,

I did the update yesterday but I forgot to send a note.

A new 3.4alpha .zip file lives at:

ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.4alpha

Currently the latest is Squeak3.4a-5125.zip but who
knows how fast that will change.

cheers

bruce

Scott Wallace <scott.wallace at squeakland.org> wrote:
> ...have just been forwarded to the external update servers; here are 
> their preambles:
> 
> 5110altXSysCatFix-nk -- Ned Konz -- 15 November 2002
> This allows cmd-x to be used as a keyboard shortcut for removing a 
> system category from a browser"
> 
> 5111browserFix-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 15 November 2002
> Corrects the bug that issuing cmd-x when the class-list, 
> system-category-list, or package-list pane has keyboard focus in a 
> browser that has no class selected would drop the user into a 
> debugger"
> 
> 5112cleanupCategories-ajh -- Anthony Hannan -- 19 November 2002
> As per Scott Wallace's request, this changeset cleans up categories 
> in 3.4 left over from the old modules form."
> 
> 5113dropFix-mir -- Michael Rueger -- 13 November 2002
> Circumvents a huge delay that occurs only on the Mac upon external 
> drop -- a situation that arrived a year ago in update 4522"
> 
> 5114fileDirTestsFix-nk
> 
> 5115fileListUpdateFix-nk -- Ned Konz -- 16 November 2002
> This fixes the registering file list in 3.4a so that after completing 
> a registered service, the file list updates its file list and 
> contents panes.
> This fixes the problem where the file list doesn't refresh after 
> decompressing a .gz file.
> 
> 5116fontEditFix-btr -- Brian T. Rice -- 18 November 2002
> Fixed BitEditor's initializing method setColor: to grab the right 
> bit-depth, which prevented it from opening, and added a note to 
> StrikeFont>>edit: that it only works in MVC."
> 
> 5117italicStrikeFont-bg -- Boris Gaertner -- 6 October 2002
> derived italic fonts are incomplete. The reason is that the glyph 
> form is not created wide enough. This change set fixes that glitch."
> 
> 5118mvcMenuFix-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 16 November 2002
> When a CustomMenu uses the targets-list and arguments-list feature, 
> use the invoked-on object as the recipient if an item beyond the 
> section having explicit targets is chosen"
> 
> 5119projSaveFixes-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 19 November 2002
> Addresses problems that were interfering with the ability of projects 
> containing etoy scripts to be successfully saved, and also caused 
> errors in attempting to load saved project files.
> (1)  Fixes a serious bug in update 5095Project-dep-tk which would 
> frequently abort project-saving, with an error.
> (2)  The Postscript of the update forces recompilation of three 
> classes that had obsolete references to ResourceCollector in them, 
> presumably as a result of the (now-purportedly-fixed) class mutate 
> bugs."
> 
> 5120savePrefs-nk -- Ned Konz -- 17 November 2002
> This adds two buttons to the Preferences tool that let you save and 
> load your preferences to and from disk.
> It stores boolean preferences as well as more complex parameters and 
> the desktop color.
> The storage is in a binary format.
> 
> 5121smallIntNextObj-je -- Joern Eyrich -- 22 October 2002
> override >>nextObject in SmallInteger (just as with 
> SmallInteger>>nextInstance) to prevent a VM crash when calling this 
> method"
> 
> 5122sqlandFixes-mir -- Michael Rueger -- 18 November 2002
> A collection of fixes from the Squeakland plugin update stream.
> Enables the project loader to fall back to Squeak Sockets if the 
> Browser Plugin isn't supported or simply not working.
> Fixes some minor and major problems:
> - introduces a backward compatibility for ScrollController
> - makes the My Squeak folder accessible on the Mac
> - adds support for external proxy settings
> - fixes an issue with fetching updates from behind a firewall
> Fixes problems with storing projects in local files and reading BMP 
> files from a project archive.
> Fixes a problem with dnd'ing images into squeak after the sandbox has 
> been activated. FileUrl cleverly enough returns a html directory 
> listing when it can't open the file. Fix is really only a workaround.
> 
> 5123sysWindowIcons-nk -- Ned Konz -- 18 November 2002
> This change set makes the window close and collapse icons independent 
> of the existence of the ComicBold font.
> 
> 5124yellowButFix-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 18 November 2002
> Fixes the bug that dropped one into a debugger when one tried (in an 
> mvc project) to invoke the yellow-button menu of, for example, the 
> BitEdtor"
> 
> 5125zipFixFix-nk -- Ned Konz -- 14 November 2002
> This fixes memberNamed: in zips to look at the platform-independent 
> name as well as a platform-dependent name.
> This makes SAR loading work under Windows.