Very nice to know - now if this were just in the readme file that comes  
with the vm...

(yeah sure - call me a radical)

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 08:06  PM, John M McIntosh wrote:

> Ok I'll give a refresher about plugins. On the mac the plugins are  
> dumped either in the same
> folder as the VM, or if the VM is an os-9 package, then the same  
> folder as the package.
>
> OR a little known fact:
> They can be dumped in a folder called Plugins
>
> Technically the
> MySqueak Folder
> 	Squeak 3.4.0b2.app		/* an os-9  package */
> 	Plugins		
> 		mpeg3Plugin		   /* that's the os-9 or lower one */
> 		mpeg3Plugin.bundle   /* that's the os-x one */
>
> Now an os-9 package appears to be a regular application folder and  
> everything is ok. The operating system launcher picks
> the right binary based on the hosting os (os-x or os-9). However for  
> pre os-9 users it's a bit confusing, the "Squeak 3.4.0b2.app"
> appears as a folder, which contains this
>
> Squeak 3.4.0b2.app  (the package which really is a folder) contains:
> 	Squeak 3.4.0b2 Classic  (an alias to the os-9 application to make the  
> os-9 finder happy)
> 	Contents
> 		pbdevelopment.plist			/* some xml files for the os-x bundle*/
> 		Info.plist					/* some xml files for the os-x bundle*/
> 		MacOS
> 			Squeak VM Opt.sig		/* a gnupgp signature for the binary */
> 			Squeak VM Opt		/* the binary for the mac os-x  VM */
> 		MacOSClassic
> 			Squeak 3.4.0b2 Classic.sig /* a gnupgp signature for the binary */
> 			Squeak 3.4.0b2 Classic	/* the binary for the Mac classic (os-9) VM  
> */
> 		PkgInfo					/* package signature to make os-x finder happy */
> 		Resources
> 			SqueakScript.icns		/*  icon files for os-x */
> 			Squeak.icns			/*  icon files for os-x */
> 			SqueakPlugin.icns		/*  icon files for os-x */
> 			Squeak VM Opt.rsrc		/*  resource fork for os-x */
> 			SqueakImage.icns		/*  icon files for os-x */
> 			SqueakChanges.icns /*  icon files for os-x */
>
>> Squeak 3.2.7Beta6.app
>
> I would suggest you upgrade to 3.4.0b2
>
> In your  note you discuss
>> (1) "Squeak 3.2 VM" (an alias)
>
> what does that point to?
>
>> folder (2) "Squeak 3.2.7Beta6.app "
>
> That's the package
>
>> So what I needed was
>>     {WhatLooksLikeTheVMfolder}:Squeak  
>> 3.2.7Beta6.app:Contents:MacOSClassic:
>
> I believe it works this way because you are using 3.2.7b6. About that  
> time we changed where it looks because that
> was confusing to people, and required digging into the package. So  
> with 3.2.8   or higher (or later versions of 3.2.7) the plugin should  
> be position
> as mentioned in the start of the note, beside the *.app or in a  
> plugins folder beside the *.app If this is not the case with say  
> 3.4.0b2 please let me know.
>
>> 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.)
>
> Try increase the memory used by the VM, to do this if you are running  
> os-9  you can do a get info on the Squeak 3.4.0b2.app
> For earlier than os-9 you need to dig down to the VM in the  
> MacOSClassic folder. I think it is set to 30MB, try 40MB.
>
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