[Vm-dev] Mac carbon Hydra VM

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Thu May 15 02:03:30 UTC 2008


Er, I recall some bug/feature of the squeak bitblt/render that won't  
let you have a window > 4096 or pixels?   Maybe someone can refresh  
our collective memory?

On May 14, 2008, at 8:56 AM, Ken G. Brown wrote:

>
> Displays properly now (at 32) as opposed to the previous refresh  
> issues in 3.8.19b2.
>
> Except when extending the main Squeak Window to 4608 pixels  
> (2048+1280+1280), the last last 536 pixels or so do not refresh  
> properly, and the background image does not extend over the area  
> that does not refresh. You can still click in the black not- 
> refreshable area to open menus, and drag windows back out but their  
> previous images remain. Menus do not display properly in the black  
> area because of mixed up backgrounds.
> The main OS window outline works properly for dragging to resize etc.
> This occurs on the other VM's as well so is not specific to Hydra.
>
> Do you want anything particular tried, tests run or whatever?
>
> Ken G. Brown
>
>
> At 7:30 AM -0700 5/13/08, John M McIntosh apparently wrote:
>> I've posted a basic Hydra VM to the usual place
>>
>> http://smalltalkconsulting.com/squeak.html
>>
>> via ftp or the idisk, look in the
>>
>> experimental/Hydra
>>
>> Someone will need to point out where to find a Hydra based image.
>> It will not work on the PowerPC, maybe later this year?
>>
>> It does not contain any of the usual bundled plugins:
>>
>> CroquetPlugin.bundle
>> FloatMathPlugin.bundle
>> FT2Plugin.bundle
>> LocalePlugin.bundle
>> mpeg3Plugin.bundle
>> PrintJobPlugin.bundle
>> QuicktimePlugin.bundle
>> ServicesPlugin.bundle
>> SpellingPlugin.bundle
>> SqueakFFIPrims.bundle
>> TestOSAPlugin.bundle
>> UnixOSProcessPlugin.bundle
>>
>> Since none of those have been cross checked for issues with a Hydra  
>> VM. However thoughts are that they should just work.
>>
>>
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