Right mouse button again (Was Re: [squeak-dev] Squeak4.2-10856-beta.zip)

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Thu Jan 6 22:46:42 UTC 2011


Hi, yes, I put that in there because there was a test added by Matthew
Fulmer that failed if it wasn't set.  I think I removed the test and
put it into ReleaseBuilderTrunk instead.

It's perfectly fine with me to turn that change back.  Ok with you, Matthew?

 - Chris


On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Bernhard Pieber <bernhard at pieber.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> I saw that you set the #swapMouseButtons preference. Now the right mouse button is fixed on the Mac. However, I just tested the image under Windows. I am afraid now it is broken there, i.e. the right mouse shows the halos instead of the context menu.
>
> There have been numerous threads about this problem. IMHO the right solution would be:
> - Make the release VMs consistent so that one can move an image between the platforms and the right mouse button behavior stays the same without need to change preferences (or run platform specific code like Pharo does it IIRC).
> - As Mac and Linux seem to behave the same the easiest way seem to me to change the Squeak*.ini to include 3ButtonMouse=1.
>
> I fully agree with Igor on that topic:
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-December/155896.html
>
> Cheers,
> Bernhard
>
> Am 06.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Chris Muller:
>
>> Hi all, I heard back from Andreas, he is fine with pushing the
>> FloatMathPlugin enhancements to 4.3.
>>
>> I loaded my latest version of KernelTests from the inbox which removes
>> FloatConsistencyTests, and have just uploaded a first 4.2 beta to
>>
>>   ftp://ftp.squeak.org/4.2/
>>
>> We can try to go-back in the trunk stream so that a continuous update
>> could work from a 10779 image, but I'm really not sure what needs to
>> be done to accomplish that or whether that's important.  We have this
>> beta image from which we can at least update forward.
>>
>> We do still have some issues in the test-suite that we need help with!
>>
>> Please also test your applications with this image over the next weeks
>> to ensure they will be compatible with this new release, and also
>> flush out any final problems.
>>
>> We're getting there, thanks to all for your help.
>>
>> - Chris
>>
>
>
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