[squeak-dev] [Cuis] [Ann] Cuis 4.1 is released

Juan Vuletich (mail lists) juanlists at jvuletich.org
Fri Feb 8 18:45:59 UTC 2013


Quoting Martin Kuball <martinkuball at web.de>:

> Am Thursday 07 February 2013 schrieb David T. Lewis:
>> On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 09:10:25AM -0300, Juan Vuletich (mail lists) wrote:
>> > Hi Martin,
>> >
>> > Quoting Martin Kuball <martinkuball at web.de>:
>> >
>> > >Am Wednesday 12 December 2012 schrieb Juan Vuletich (mail lists):
>> > >>Hi Folks,
>> > >>
>> > >>Cuis 4.1 is available at http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html .
>> > >>Biggest news is in the Morph hierarchy. Ivars 'bounds' and
>> > >>'fullBounds' are gone! All coordinates are now Float and relative to
>> > >>the owner morph. This is part of the transition to Morphic 3. The
>> > >>drawing engine is still BitBlt and the UI is not scalable yet, but
>> > >>Morphic 3 is now much closer.
>> > >>
>> > >>Cheers,
>> > >>Juan Vuletich
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > >I tried cuis 4.1 but was not able to get it to work. I used the
>> > >latest vm from debian unstable: 4.10.2.2614-1_amd64. When I open the
>> > >image everything seems to be fine. Altough I'm not sure if the
>> > >background is supposed to be black? But when I move windows arround
>> > >or open popups the screen is not redrawn and it gets cluttered with
>> > >parts of the windows and the popups (see attached image). Any idea
>> > >what's causing this? The squeak images work just fine.
>> > >
>> > >Martin
>> > >
>> >
>> > The problems you see are due to bugs in BitBlt that I fixed about 2
>> > years ago. You need a newer VM.
>> >
>> > As we recommend at http://www.jvuletich.org/Cuis/Index.html , use the
>> > latest Cog VM for your platform if possible. Right now, that would be
>> > http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2678/coglinux.tgz . If
>> > that doesn't fit your system, you need to find a relatively recent VM
>> > with the fixed BitBlt.
>> >
>> > Maybe someone can give more specific advice, as I'm not a Linuxer...
>> >
>>
>> Squeak VMs are at http://squeakvm.org/index.html, which has links to
>> download the standard interpreter VM at http://squeakvm.org/unix/ and
>> Cog VM at http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/. Cuis will work
>> with any of these VMs.
>>
>> I'm not sure who is maintaining the Debian distribution, but apparently
>> it is broken.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>
> Turns out I had to compile a new one. The latest vm on squeakvm.org  
> does not work on debian because libc6 is to old and debian does  
> unfortunately not provide a better one. But cuis is working now.  
> Thanks for the tips.
>
> While doing that I took a look at the debian source package of  
> squeak-vm. According to the changelog the uploader of the package is  
> Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>. Maybe he is listening here and can  
> add some insight? Because as far as I can see the package is build  
> from the src tarball from squeakvm.org. The same one I used. Really  
> odd.
>
> Martin
>
>
>
>

Good to know. Thanks for telling how it went.

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich



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