I am also not sure what you mean by contemporary Squeak, but I am running this on Linux Fedora, with the latest squeak-vm which I installed using yum as follows:
$ squeak -version
3.10-5 #1 Mon Jun 21 22:10:08 UTC 2010 gcc 4.4.4
Squeak3.10beta of 22 July 2007 [latest update: #7159]
default plugin location: /usr/lib64/squeak/3.10-5/*.so
As for the love of debugging, let's just say that I'm sharing the love. :-) Actually, I'd love to see this software work - it seems like a really neat language toolset.
Thanks again,
Dave
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Chris Cunnington
<smalltalktelevision@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12-08-22 5:46 PM, dav0 wrote:
OK, so I rebuilt the tutorial from scratch and I am able to reproduce the syntax error again now when I click on a yellow square. I'm not real sure what the syntax error is because the tutorial hasn't covered much of the Smalltalk syntax yet.
I am also seeing the same sort of display symptoms as before, where the checkerboard is offset around 50 pixels both in the x and the y directions - indicating that the syntax error has something to do with the checkerboard's positioning.
I am attaching the sources which I manually saved along the way (SBE-Quinto.sources). Note: I did make one change to the original PDF code which seems to have an extra dash '-' in the Class category (package) name, where two of the provided methods specify "SBE--Quinto" instead of "SBE-Quinto" as the tutorial says to use.
The one thing which I am doing that I suspect may be part of the problem is the fact that I have newer Squeak sources than those which are referenced by the book. The book's SBE image seems to complain every time I start up displaying a little pop-up which says "SqueakV39.sources does not exist" at which point, I always "Choose another name" from the menu and select my more recent "SqueakV41.sources" which I downloaded previously. Could this be causing this issue?
Thanks
Dave
Kudos to you for persisting and rebuilding the exercise. That's good.
You do want to match your sources file with the right image. As you can see from this page, there are sources for various Squeak releases:
http://squeak.org/Download/
It sounds to me that if you are starting and it asks for SqueakV39.sources, then you are downloading an image from somewhere of which I am unfamiliar. It might be easiest to download Squeak from the homepage, get an all-in-one and leave the business of sources files to the maker of that package.
http://www.squeak.org.
The sources may be the problem. They may not be. Either way, perhaps you should upgrade to contemporary Squeak? Then, you have the working sources available at
http://www.squeaksource.com/SqueakByExample
You can use that version of the game to compare with the one you've rebuilt by hand.
I'm not sure it's my role here to actually find the syntax error for you. Bug hunting is really the fun of programming and I wouldn't want to take that way from you. :)