Hi steve

did you close any changesorters that would be open in the project you 
try to save, because one told me that this was a source of endless 
project saving....


Stef

On 22 juil. 04, at 23:28, Steve Sanderson wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I'm a long-time lurker, building a product prototype in squeak, and I'm
> having a similar problem with "Save Project On A File..."
>
> Essentially, twice now when I save my project after some changes (small
> project, minor changes), the change goes on forever...  I see the
> "Publishing (collecting resources)" and the grid stay there forever.  
> Since
> this is a 3.6 image (or for other reasons) the instructions that Ned 
> sent
> out don't apply.
>
> Here are the steps:
> 1. In the project, I select "Save Project On A File..."
> 2. In the "Publish This Project" morph, I choose my folder from the 
> list,
> then press "Save"
> 3. Squeak asks "Would you like to include all the changes in the 
> change set
> as part of this publishing operation?" and I select "Yes"
> 4. Squeak asks "Some blocks which reference instance variables are 
> included
> in this segment, These may fail when the segment is loaded if the 
> class has
> been reshaped. What would you like to do?" I select "keep going"
>
> Menus work, so when I "previous project", then I get 
> "MessageNotUnderstood:
> CompiledMethod>>position", abandon that and I can continue.  But never 
> save
> the project.
>
> Can anyone offer some help / suggestions on what to do next?  I can 
> work
> around, i.e. copy code into a working instance, but I'd like to help
> eradicate the bug.
>
> I can get email the image or other - suggestions welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Sanderson
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of 
> Milan
> Zimmermann
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 8:42 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: "Save Project on File" "almost hangs" Squeak?
>
> Ned,
>
> (sorry i sent this to you instead to list last night .. just a copy 
> here,
> with
> one note/question - when playing with your solution last night I 
> thought the
> "reason" why the save hang was the "improperly renamed class ZTime" - 
> do you
> think it was that or just the fact I had the Changeset browser opened 
> in the
> project, which made the object graph too big and Squeak decided to 
> stop the
> save?)
>
> Thanks for the detail description and help. I am now able to "save the
> project
> to file" and understand (partly) why Save did not work before, a few 
> notes
> inline below:
>
> On July 11, 2004 12:42 pm, Ned Konz wrote:
>> On Sunday 11 July 2004 8:22 am, Milan Zimmermann wrote:
>
> <<snip>>
>
>>
>> Just do this after the save failure:
>>
>> - click on the desktop in the project (the copy of the one that you're
>> saving) that is displaying the progress morph forever (this project is
>> called Unnamed#).
>
> Just a note, I was only able to get control back from the "temp 
> project"
> after
> Alt-. + Abandon.
>
>> - go to the previous project (the one you're trying to save).
>
> I did
>
>> - click on the "OK" button on the requestor in the upper left hand 
>> corner
>> that says "extra associations"
>
> Interesting - I have not seen anything in the upper left corner of my
> original
> project ...
>
>> - Open a Project history morph from the Objects tool
>
> I did
>
>> - drag out project view morphs for any projects you didn't make 
>> yourself
>> (like the "Unnamed#" one you just left)
>> - hold the button down on each one of these and choose "expunge 
>> project"
>> - close the change sorter in your original project and try again.
>
> I did
>
> After that, I did "save" - from World menu, probably not needed -  and 
> was
> able to "Save Project On File" , great, Thanks!
>
> I tried to look for the "ZTime" class in Browser before I closed the 
> "Change
> Sorter" but did not find it, not sure why. In any case, do you think I 
> must
> have renamed it or something else could have happened to the image? - 
> Just
> curious, I am not aware of renaming any class, perhaps by accident .. 
> I have
> been playing with creating classes from the workspace, perhaps I 
> messed up
> at
> some point.
>
> Thanks for your help, hope once I know more about Squeak I'd be able 
> to fix
> such things :)
>
> Milan
>>
>> What's happening here is this:
>>
>> - You ask to save the project.
>>
>> - Squeak creates a new project that is a copy of the one being saved, 
>> and
>> changes into it. This is the one that shows the progress morph and the
>> grid.
>>
>> - It finds something that it doesn't want to save (see below). This 
>> more
> or
>> less aborts the saving, but instead of cleaning up the temp project 
>> and
>> changing back to your original project, you're left in the temp 
>> project.
>> Which actually isn't saving any more, despite the progress morph being
>> displayed.
>>
>> - You will find that in the temp project the menu works as soon as 
>> this
>> happens (when it changes from "collecting resources" and starts 
>> displaying
>> numbers again). Go to the previous (parent) project; this will be your
>> original.
>>
>> - In the original project, there is at the upper left hand corner of 
>> the
>> world a string informer saying "extra associations". This means (to 
>> the
>> three or four people who know and remember this) that "something bad
>> happened and your project didn't get saved correctly."
>>
>> - The cause of this was an improperly renamed class called "ZTime" 
>> which
> is
>> being held in the change records of a change set which is being held 
>> by
> the
>> ChangeSorter that you have in your project.
>>
>> I'm looking into how we could better handle this kind of thing.
>
>