[ANN] 3.6gamma candidate image available

Julian Fitzell julian at beta4.com
Sun Sep 28 06:21:17 UTC 2003


goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
> Phil Hudson <phil.hudson at iname.com> wrote:
> 
>>Help! I don't understand any of this. How do I get the Package Loader
>>working again? I looked at the SMLoaderDownloadDirectoryName - it had an
>>entirely reasonable value (my Squeak app directory), but I deleted it and
>>that didn't fix the problem.
> 
> 
> Well, the most obvious solution is to just set the download directory to
> something more suitable.
> Open Package Loader, click right mouse button in package list (to get
> the menu), choose "set download directory" etc. :-)
> 
> Another way is to clear the Preference, I could actually not find a
> method for doing this (funny), but if you browse class Preferences,
> select the class var "Parameters" in the class definition, press alt-i
> (to inspect it) and then remove the key #SMLoaderDownloadDirectoryName.
> 
> This will make the Package Loader use "FileDirectory default" as the
> download directory.

Obviously the released images need to have no path set, but perhaps it 
would be nice to catch the exception if the directory in the preference 
doesn't exist and use the default again?  Would make sharing images a 
little less problematic...

Julian



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