On 12/19/07, Damien Cassou <damien.cassou at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/12/19, Amos <aaamos at gmail.com>:
> > A couple of hours ago, I tried loading the FreeType Plus fonts via the
> > Package Browser into my web dev image. It took a while, so I did
> > something else and when I came back to take a look maybe 20 minutes
> > later, it was still sitting there with an unfinished progress bar. So
> > I figured it had hung itself and closed the image without saving (the
> > image was still responding).
> >
> > Now when I start the image again, I get a frozen window that won't
> > refresh (it displays whatever was behind it initially, or just black
> > when it's minimised and restored). If I hit the close button on the
> > window, Squeak happily asks me if I want to exit without saving, so
> > I'm assuming that part of it is still running.
> >
> > Is that a "common" problem? Is there any way I can break in and stop
> > whatever it's doing that freezes it up? I've tried Ctrl+B and Ctrl+Y
> > (common mappings in VisualWorks), but can't seem to do anything;
> > clicking any mouse button does nothing. There are quite a few things
> > I've worked on recently that I'd like to save the image if possible,
> > hopefully without having to manually go through the changes file. Any
> > hints how I can achieve that would be greatly appreciated.
>
> You can try ALT+. which is the common way of stopping things in Squeak.
>
> --
> Damien Cassou
>
>

Doesn't seem to have any effect... the image is still frozen. Guess
I'll start retrieving my classes from the changes file tomorrow and do
more frequent backups :-(