[squeak-dev] Re: Trunk now Toolbuilderized ;-)

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Sun Aug 9 16:25:12 UTC 2009


On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 08:59:01AM -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
> David T. Lewis wrote:
> >I was assuming that I have been doing something dumb (the usual 
> >explanation)
> >but I'm beginning to suspect that it may be due to a platform issue. When
> >running under X window (a KDE window manager in this case), there are lots
> >of times when Squeak receives notification from the window manager that it
> >should refresh its display. My guess is that a display update is being
> >performed at some point during the update process when Squeak is not able
> >to actually perform the update.
> >
> >Any tips?
> 
> Try the "standard" tricks:
> * Close all open transcripts
> * Destroy all shared flaps
> * Close all other windows.
> 
> My best bet would be a transcript since loading may print something to 
> the transcript and if that happens to happen while the text changes are 
> loaded, I could see how something goes wrong here.

Yes, closing the transcript resolved the problem. Evidently the original
hypothesis (me doing something dumb again) was correct. Thanks!

BTW, the new fonts are very nice. I wasn't sure I liked the look at
first but I have quickly gotten accustomed to it, and the overall look
is very good.

Dave




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