On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 04:37:59PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> Am I remembering right that you mentioned sometihng about disabling the readDocuments stuff?
> 

I had been thinking that it might be possible to do that, but I was
mistaken. The readDocumentAtStartup preference is still in place.

Unfortunately, what I *did* do is introduce a bug in #arguments when the
preference is disabled. It should be fixed now in System-dtl.1165.

If you have the preference disabled, you should now be able to do something
like this:

$ squeak squeak.image -evaluate '3 + 4'
7


Dave

> > On 2020-06-12, at 4:31 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Oh, sorry, the "run" command is my /usr/local/bin/run script that picks
> > a suitable VM. The effect is the same as running the VM executable directly,
> > so run the VM in whatever manner you like. I am in the habit of installing
> > my user executables (the VM run scripts in this case) in /usr/local/bin/ so
> > that they will be in my $PATH.
> > 
> > Here is what a -doit looks like on my PC. It evaluates the doIt argument,
> > and once the image opens you can see the #FOO has been added to the system
> > dictionary.
> > 
> > $ run squeak -- -doit "Smalltalk at: #FOO put: #BAR"
> > BAR
> > 
> > Note the ' -- ' before the '-doit'. However you might decide to invoke
> > the command line, you can put ' -- ' before the arguments and they
> > should get get passed along to the image.
> > 
> > Note that this hack is doing the evaluations as the very first thing
> > in the startUp sequence, so if you evaluate something that (for example)
> > opens an inspector, that inspector is not necessarily going to place
> > itself properly in the Morphic world. But it does seem to work, and
> > being able to do something like this before anything else gets screwed
> > up in the startUp processing might be a handy thing to be able to do.
> > 
> > Dave
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 03:07:43PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
> >> OK, the DoItFirst-dtl.2.cs filed in ok. It did however make the image save suddenly take a very long time  - but after save/quit and restartin the save no longer takes ages. Weird.
> >> 
> >> I had to execute - 
> >> 
> >> time  /home/pi/Documents/Squeak/sqcogspurlinuxhtRPi/squeak /home/pi/Documents/Squeak/CmdLineTests-TPR-Squeak5.3-19682-32bit.image  -- -evaluate "(3 + 4 + Float pi cubed) asScaledDecimal: 20"
> >> 38.00627668029981975905s20
> >> 
> >> real	0m0.393s
> >> user	0m0.086s
> >> sys	0m0.283s
> >> 
> >> a) no idea what the 'run' command might be and it is not on Raspbian
> >> b) I'm guessing your 'squeak' script was finding the default named image?
> >> c) that time was for a Pi 4, which took about 3x as long as what I image is probably a reasonably modern x64 box? The registered user time was less than double though. Not bad for $35.
> >> 
> >> I must be doing something wrong when I tried the -doit option though; it faults in CodeLoader>>installSourceFile: Apparently sometihng has lead it to see an HTTPDownloadRequest ... ok, so the ProjectLauncher>>startUpAfterLogin sees that Preferences readDocumentAtStartup is true and that makes the unwarranted assumption that self getSystemAttribute: 2 will provide the document path. Oops. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> tim
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> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> tim
> --
> tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Useful random insult:- Overdue for deincarnation.
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