[squeak-dev] Re: Bug in 3.10.2 - browser / moving classes
Mr. Timothy C. Johnson
tjohnson at iwu.edu
Mon Nov 24 14:42:50 UTC 2008
Jerome Peace wrote:
>>
>>I had two browser windows open (standard 3.10.2 default browsers).
>
>?? Full browsers of Hierarchical browsers??
They were not Hierarchal browsers, AFAIK. Just the standard browser
you get from World menu -> open... -> Class browser.
>
>The reason I ask is that there is a known problem with the later
> which will sometimes confuse the browser.
>I usually see it when creating a new class.
>You may have found a new way to bump into it.
Perhaps?
>
>
>>They were both open to the same class category. In one browser, I
>>moved a number of methods out of that category into another one (via
>>drag-and-drop). After moving about 5 or 6 methods, I got an error:
>>subscript out of bounds, in World. I selected "proceed" and I looked
>>over at the other browser (the one in which I hadn't made any changes),
>>and its classes list pane had become an invalid rectangle (a red
>>rectangle with a yellow X inside). Browsing to other categories in the
>>troubled browser does not restore the class category pane to operation.
>
>Invalid drawing panes "latch up".
>To fix them it is necessary to not only fix the underlying problem
> but to release the latch via:
>the red menu>debug>start drawing again.
Ah! I didn't know that, thanks.
>For browsers it almost always easier to just start fresh.
Yes, that did work out well.
>> A new browser is fine.
>>
>>Using 3.10.2 on latest Mac PPC VM.
>
>
>If you are willing to put some effort into getting this tracked and
fixed,
>please add a report to mantis
> describing a way to from a fresh start reproduce the problem.
>Enough specifics to reliably reproduce the problem
> is a starting point for others to explore and play with it.
>
>Here are the FAQs:
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Thanks Jerome. Mantis has always been mysterious to me. I will see if
I can duplicate the problem and add a report.
- timj
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