[Squeakfoundation]Re: putative update

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I say fire away. As long as Daniel is happy I am happy. :-)
But lets stick to the squeakfoundation list from here on.

regards, Göran

danielv@netvision.net.il wrote:
> Who's Craig Harris?
> You meant CraigL, I suppose...
> 
> About the fix -
> The original method includes a case statement, but the added extranous
> reference is to something that HandMorph already references 3 lines
> above that, so I don't really mind.
> 
> Creating a registry of events types would be nicer and decouple
> HandMorph from specialized event types, but that can wait.
> 
> As to making sure it works and uses the mechanisms right, I for one
> trust it implicitly now, just as I used to before any switch...
> 
> So it can go in as far as I'm concerned.
> 
> Objections anyone? Doug?
> 
> Daniel
> 
> Scott Wallace <scott.wallace@squeakland.org> wrote:
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> > Hi, Guides,
> > 
> > Alan recently ran across the bug that drops of jpegs and text files onto the Squeak window were taking a huge amount of time (typically > 30 seconds) on the Mac; we verified that the same problem occurs in all versions of Squeak 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4, and tracked it down to a change made to HandMorph>>processEvents by Dan a year ago in update 4522MorphicInMVCFixes-di.
> > 
> > Michael produced a fileout to address the problem, and his fix has circulated among SqC and passed the smoke test.  
> > 
> > This is the kind of fix that should find its way into 3.2.1 eventually, but it should first appear in the current alpha stream, viz. 3.4a, so I'd like to publish it there asap, with y'all's permission of course.  So I attach it herewith for your scrutiny.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >   -- Scott