Advice about plugins (silly me)
Andreas.Raab at gmx.de
Andreas.Raab at gmx.de
Mon Nov 25 11:00:21 UTC 2002
Richard,
And now you understand why I prefer to have all plugins be builtins ;-)
Cheers,
- Andreas
>
> So a plugin has to be in the same directory as the VM.
> I knew that.
>
> But what does that actually *mean*?
>
> I have a folder (0) containing a whole bunch of things,
> including (1) "Squeak 3.2 VM" (an alias) and a folder
> folder (2) "Squeak 3.2.7Beta6.app ", which I understand
> to be the MacOS X VM "application".
>
> Since this is "the folder that contains the VM",
> it's clearly the right place to put the plugins.
>
> Nope, doesn't work.
>
> So try putting the plugins inside (2) instead of (0).
> That contains (3) "Squeak 3.2.7b6 Classic", which is
> a VM, so this should be ok, right?
>
> Nope, doesn't work.
>
> (2) contains a folder (4) Contents which contains a
> folder (5) MacOSClassic which contains (6) Squeak 3.2.7b6.
> But that CLEARLY can't be right, because how would the
> MacOS X version of the application know to look _there_?
>
> But that _is_ the right place.
>
> So what I needed was
> {WhatLooksLikeTheVMfolder}:Squeak
> 3.2.7Beta6.app:Contents:MacOSClassic:
>
> I must say that this was NOT obvious to me at all.
>
> Now that I've got the plugin in the right place, it plays the file,
> BUT it's a bit jerky. (About four painful breaks in about 15 seconds.)
> (266 MHz PowerPC G3, with an audio card, whatever that is.)
>
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