Display craziness on Panther

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Mon Nov 17 17:04:16 UTC 2003


This is related to a bug in calculating the title height, actually I  
had another report of this issue earlier in the weekend, but I was  
reworking some performance
issues in moving bytes first.

I'll post information where to find a 3.6.1b4 VM in a few hours.

On Nov 17, 2003, at 7:36 AM, Jim Menard wrote:

> I'm using John McIntosh's Squeak 3.6.1Beta3.app on my Mac OS X 10.3.1  
> system (with the Squeak3.6-5424-full.changes and .image files). This  
> version doesn't seem to crash, but I have different problems.
>
> I start with a fresh image, set full screen on, and save the image and  
> quit. When I re-start Squeak, the entire display has jumped up a  
> centimeter or so. The tabs on the bottom are not at the bottom of the  
> screen and the top of the display is chopped off. If I turn off full  
> screen mode, the top of the Mac OS X window is hidden under the main  
> menu bar.
>
> When I click the mouse, the click is registered a centimeter or so up.  
> Occasionally, I can see the mouse cursor jump up to where the clicks  
> are being registered. If I do manage to click somewhere, say in a  
> browser code edit pane, the text is redrawn improperly (the top  
> centimeter or so is garbled).
>
> Any ideas? I can of course work without full-screen mode on as a  
> workaround.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Jim
> --  
> Jim Menard, jimm at io.com, http://www.io.com/~jimm/
> "I have found that humans often use Smalltalk during awkward moments."
>     -- Commander Data, ST TNG
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