Levente,
thanks a lot for trying this!
Bye
Enrico

2011/10/4 Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu>:
> On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Enrico Spinielli wrote:
>
>> The main reason for trying to load Ballooon3D was to get Alice working
>> in Squeak,
>> if somebody has any suggestions about how to get that working I am all
>> ears...
>
> You can get through the error, by rewriting VRMLStream class >> #initialize.
> Just remove the part that raises an error:
>
>        0 to: 255 do:[:i|
>                (DigitValues at: i+1) = (Character value: i) digitValue
>                        ifFalse:[^self error:'Digit value initialization
> failed'].
>        ].
>
> The cause of the problem is that VRMLStream tries to duplicate a class
> variable of Character (DigitValues), but the code lacks changes done in
> Squeak 4.1, so the values differ. The real solution would be to use
> Character's DigitValues directly instead.
>
>>
>> Thanks a lot in advance
>> Bye
>> Enrico
>> PS: why Alice (in Squeak) because it was easy and funny and instructive...
>> ;-)
>
> I could load Balloon3D into Squeak 4.3 (had to fix a syntax error, because
> #. is not a valid symbol anymore), but it's not functional, because it
> relies on stuff that was removed long ago (e.g.: CurrentProjectRefactoring).
>
>
> Levente
>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 15:09, Edgar J. De Cleene <edgardec2005 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/4/11 10:00 AM, "Chris Cunnington" <smalltalktelevision at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> "I got a failure on VRML component as in attached log and got stuck...
>>> Any ideas about how to proceed?"
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, you should abandon using anything that requires VRML. That
>>> technology
>>> is dead. That project on SqueakSource is dated from 2004.
>>> Andreas Raab has moved on from anything related to VRML, and I imagine
>>> you
>>> might benefit from doing the same. What is he using in
>>> it's place now? Probably OpenGL or something.
>>>
>>> I was looking at Carbon to learn about VMs. I went to ESUG, met the VM
>>> maintainers, and I got the message that I should move on to
>>> Objective C, because that's where they were going. So that's what I'm
>>> doing.
>>>
>>> I'm involved in helping to bring out the next image. The idea that the
>>> new
>>> image has to be able to load in any code from anywhere in
>>> Squeak's past just depresses me. As a team and a community we only have
>>> so
>>> many resources and they need to be spent wisely on things
>>> like making the image smaller with each iteration.
>>>
>>> I think expectations about such things need to be managed. At some point
>>> we've just got to say that that's the past. If you want to use
>>> old code then you need to stick with old images. If 4.3 doesn't
>>> accommodate
>>> VRML, I don't see how you can expect it to. The prospect
>>> exhausts me even before I've started working on the 4.3 release.
>>>
>>> Please find out what Andreas Raab moved onto and use that.
>>>
>>> Chris Cunnington
>>> SOB member
>>>
>>>
>>> Mostly I agree , but...
>>>
>>> What is wrong on using some old as long works ?
>>>
>>> Balloon3D could be loaded with hard work and maybe if we can have it
>>> could
>>> have a new user.
>>>
>>> In short time he realize all you said is true and follow your advice.
>>>
>>> But if we don˙˙t take users wishes , could loose he.
>>>
>>> So , I try to have Balloon3D  in next FunSqueak, but give me time...
>>>
>>> Edgar
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Enrico Spinielli
>> "Do Androids dream of electric sheep?"˙˙ Philip K. Dick
>> "Hear and forget; see and remember;do and understand."˙˙Mitchel Resnick
>>
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Enrico Spinielli
"Do Androids dream of electric sheep?"— Philip K. Dick
"Hear and forget; see and remember;do and understand."—Mitchel Resnick