[squeak-dev] Cross post to enlighten the eite
ReliableRobots.com
reliablerobots at gmail.com
Sun May 8 12:32:34 UTC 2016
Is there a squeak.ini setting to make it work on an old Win98? I have to
use a Win98 computer for an old CNC machine.
On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 2:21 AM, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 May 2016, ReliableRobots.com wrote:
>
> Tim,
>> I think you may have something set up on your test system like you have
>> on RPi's for Scratch, so a different VM than the one in the latest download
>> is running your image perhaps? I don't know the path that
>> normally gets followed but when I copy squeak.exe from the
>> LinuxAndWindows directory to the Resources directory and run it there, the
>> halo result of a right click on an open window happens.
>>
>
> If you copy Squeak.exe, then you should copy the Squeak.ini file as well,
> because that contains the 3ButtonMouse setting. Without that, the VM will
> think that you're using a 2 button mouse.
>
> Levente
>
>
>
>> Sorry to pop your balloon.
>>
>> Kirk
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 2:07 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>> Leaving aside the pontificatory apoctypha for a moment -
>>
>>
>> > Not just any 5.0 but 15113, the most recent download available on
>> 5/5/16.
>>
>> Funny. My download of the same package shows that it starts up with
>> the expected behaviour of the right button raising a menu and the middle
>> button opening the halo. This is as expected and as has
>> been the case for a long time. It happens to be the *wrong* way in
>> my opinion since quite obviously a middle button (and all mice should have
>> three, clearly) ought to open the contextual menus.
>> However, the preference is trivial to find and many unfortunates
>> are inured to wrong way through a sad life of deprivation and privation
>> whilst using inferior systems.
>>
>> Halos have been part of Morphic since before the dinosaurs roamed
>> the earth. They are not an 'improvement that made Squeak as worthless as a
>> balloon full of machine gun holes. ' that has suddenly
>> been foisted upon you by those of us in the elite {strokes white
>> Persian cat while glaring at you from the Volcano Lair(™) on my secret
>> estate on a Pacific Island} as a way of ruining your
>> morning.
>>
>> For the right button to open a halo would require
>> a) the preference being set that way in the release; which it is
>> clearly not.
>> b) the preference having been set by the user, either deliberately
>> or accidentally
>> c) the preference having been set previously, saved and then loaded
>> by the user
>> d) the device’s mouse driver being swapped
>> e) use of a vm flag such as ‘-swapbtn’ on unix and probably others
>> on Mac/Windows.
>>
>> >
>> > In college I read teachers discovered innovation for the sake of
>> innovation was worthless. It is time Squeak-Dev learned that and only make
>> useful improvements.
>>
>> I’m glad I didn’t go to a college like that.
>>
>> > I can't remember the Halo ever once being useful. Take a class
>> in SolidWorks and do that in Squeak instead of Morphic an other not useful
>> improvements.
>>
>> The only useful part of the Solidworks UI I ever found was the exit.
>>
>>
>> tim
>> --
>> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
>> Useful Latin Phrases:- Canis meus id comedit = My dog ate it.
>>
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