[Vm-dev] New Windows VM: 4.0.1

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Mon Mar 29 01:39:12 UTC 2010


Wow, thanks a lot for getting SqueakMap going..!

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Folks -
>
> I've built a new Windows VM for the upcoming release (mostly to fix the
> SqueakMap problem). Good thing I tried it first - it turns out that my
> earlier fix for SqueakMap had fixed one particular version of the problem,
> but there was another variant that it hadn't addressed (now it does). With
> this VM I can use SqueakMap successfully.
>
> However, since this was a major version switch I've also changed two more
> issues that came up in the past:
>
> 1) The VM will now default to pass the window close event to the image
> instead of handling it directly. You can see that in a current trunk image
> by clicking on the close button (you'll now get a Squeak notifier instead of
> the previous VM notifier). The old behavior is still available if you
> SHIFT-Click on the close button. This is very useful if your image hangs.
>
> 2) The VM name now reflects the version. In other words, this VM is called
> Squeak4.0.1.exe to make it easier to distinguish between versions.
> Unfortunately this also means you'll heave to create a new association if
> you want to use this VM (hopefully, the installer will take care of that
> later).
>
> As always the VM is available here:
>
> http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-4.0.1-bin.zip
> http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-4.0.1-src.zip
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>


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