[Q]Use of recycleMe pages, modal alerts, Upbrade script behavior

goran.krampe at bluefish.se goran.krampe at bluefish.se
Wed Aug 6 15:48:23 UTC 2003


"Thomas A Petersen" <tpeterse at csc.com> wrote:
> Greetings fellow Squeakers!

Greetings!

[SNIP]
> Two Questions:
> 
> 1.  I have noticed a bunch of recycleMe pages on the swiki.  Can we reuse
> them for documentation or "Who's who" pages?  I would like to eventually
> donate some short examples of useful things that don't appear to be
> anywhere on the swiki.

I definitely think so. AFAIK that is the purpose.

> 2.  I know there is a way to put up a simple modal alert using a menu call?
> All I want to do is put up an alert effectively with an OK button for the
> user to click.

Well, how about:

self inform: 'SCO sucks!'
 
> A suggestion:
> 
> I updated my beta image to 5387 from the posted 5373 baseline on my Win2K
> system.  I set a subdirectory to my Squeak directory as the download
> destination.  Then I ran the upgrade to the full image.
> 
> I received several deprecation warnings and told it to proceed each time.
> Everything loaded OK.  If the warnings are going to stay in the final
> upgrade to full process, you might want to warn the user at the start that
> they are coming.  This should make it more comfortable to less experienced
> newbies.
> 
> I also noticed that only the upgrade script landed in the specified
> directory.  All of the other subparts of the upgrade script landed in my
> main Squeak directory.  Is this the intended behavior?

Ehrm. Nah. Sounds strange. SM1.1 will (when it appears) get rid of the
notion "download directory".

> Squeak is seriously cool.

Yup. :-)

> Thanks in advance.
> tap

Cheers, Göran



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