[Vm-dev] bug leaving Scratch presentation mode with squeak-vm 4.10.2-2614

[John McIntosh]

Matt I dimly recall a bug in the Scratch image code where the
ioForceDisplayUpdate is not invoked as part of the scratch drawing
cycle.
That leads to a white screen in some conditions if the
ioForceDisplayUpdate *is* needed to update the visual screen.

You should check the image source against the image found at
https://github.com/johnmci/Scratch.app.for.iOS

Also see http://isqueak.org/ioForceDisplayUpdate

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote:
>
> Hi! I'm _finally_ getting all the parts in place for Scratch on Fedora
> Linux. It's all working well, but there's one bug I've noticed: when I exit
> full-screen presentation mode, I get a blank white window which doesn't
> respond to anything. I'm launching Scratch like this:
>
>   squeak -encoding UTF-8 -vm-sound-pulse /usr/share/scratch/Scratch.image
>
> with no -xshm or anything else. This uses the scratch plugin from squeak
> itself, but I'm getting the same behavior when I build the one in the
> scratch source too.
>
> I tried the shift-r trick and turned full screen off; when I return from
> presentation mode, I still get the unresponsive screen (I thought maybe I
> could get a squeak menu in that case, but no luck).
>
> I asked on the Scratch list, and it was suggested that this was probably a
> VM problem and that this would be the best place to ask. Anyone have any
> insight or ideas on how to proceed to debug this?
>
>
>
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> --
> Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org          <http://mattdm.org/>



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