A little issue here is that the C support code for the plugin has
one-off index bug and it crashes now and then.

  A fixed version that works with m17n is on my disk (hopefully
still...).

  I agree that the method in the latest image shouldn't be there.

-- Yoshiki


At Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:40:55 -0800,
Ned Konz wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 23 November 2004 6:02 am, Vaidas Didzbalis wrote:
> > Hello,
> > evaluating
> > StrikeFont listFontNames
> > crashes squeak 3.6 6461 on my windows 2000
> 
> "3.6 6461?" 3.6 goes only through update 5429 or so. Sounds like you have a 
> 3.8beta system. Does it identify itself as 3.6?
> 
> Anyway:
> 
> Actually, this is implemented by Andreas' FontPlugin, which I believe does not 
> come with the stock system.
> 
> You can get Andreas' "Win32 Native Fonts" package from SqueakMap; this should 
> come with the required plugin. However, that package has not been updated 
> with the later m17n changes (see below). You might just want to take the 
> FontPlugin.dll out of that distribution package (which is just a ZIP file 
> called "Win32NativeFonts.4.sar") and stick it in the same directory as your 
> squeak.exe VM program.
> 
> the 006-incChanges change set (part of the m17n changes) unfortunately 
> included a number of changes to the "Win32 Native Fonts" package, and they 
> won't work without the Font Plugin.
> 
> I believe StrikeFont>>listFontNames, StrikeFont>>listFont: and related methods 
> (like everything in HostFont) should be removed from the image and used to 
> update Andreas' package on SqueakMap.
> 
> Any reason that these need to be in the stock image?
> 
> Can we get an updated version of these into the SqueakMap package?
> -- 
> Ned Konz
> http://bike-nomad.com/squeak/