Hi,
I'm using the image from http://damien.cassou.free.fr/squeak-web/sq3.9- 7067web07.08.1.zip and struggling to install the FreeType Plus package using the "Package Universe Browser".
The installation freezes with the popup message "installing FreeType Plus- plugins version 0.13" and a progress bar "Preamble" that fails to make any progress!
Attempting to debug the problem, I started with a fresh image and installed FFI. The FFI tests pass. Then FreeType successfully installs four dlls: freetype6.dll, ft2plugin.dll, BitBltPlugin.dll and msvsr71.dll, at which stage the installation freezes. I failed to interrupt the running process and found the only way to stop it was to kill squeak. It seems to be that Squeak is caught in some endless loop, which is gradually using more memory - Windows starts giving me low virtual memory warnings after sometime.
When I restart squeak, the same thing happens - the system appears to hang, no screen redraws, but consuming more and more RAM as time passes.
Removing the FreeType DLLs from my squeak directory allows me to restart squeak and run as normal.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Nick
Hey Nick, I have had success installing this package from SqueakMap.
-Conrad
On 9/17/07, Nick Ager nick.ager@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm using the image from http://damien.cassou.free.fr/squeak-web/sq3.9- 7067web07.08.1.zip and struggling to install the FreeType Plus package using the "Package Universe Browser".
The installation freezes with the popup message "installing FreeType Plus- plugins version 0.13" and a progress bar "Preamble" that fails to make any progress!
Attempting to debug the problem, I started with a fresh image and installed FFI. The FFI tests pass. Then FreeType successfully installs four dlls: freetype6.dll, ft2plugin.dll, BitBltPlugin.dll and msvsr71.dll, at which stage the installation freezes. I failed to interrupt the running process and found the only way to stop it was to kill squeak. It seems to be that Squeak is caught in some endless loop, which is gradually using more memory - Windows starts giving me low virtual memory warnings after sometime.
When I restart squeak, the same thing happens - the system appears to hang, no screen redraws, but consuming more and more RAM as time passes.
Removing the FreeType DLLs from my squeak directory allows me to restart squeak and run as normal.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Nick
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Hi, "Nick Ager" nick.ager@gmail.com wrote in message news:loom.20070917T231838-233@post.gmane.org...
Hi,
I'm using the image from http://damien.cassou.free.fr/squeak-web/sq3.9- 7067web07.08.1.zip and struggling to install the FreeType Plus package using the "Package Universe Browser".
The installation freezes with the popup message "installing FreeType Plus- plugins version 0.13" and a progress bar "Preamble" that fails to make any progress!
Attempting to debug the problem, I started with a fresh image and installed FFI. The FFI tests pass. Then FreeType successfully installs four dlls: freetype6.dll, ft2plugin.dll, BitBltPlugin.dll and msvsr71.dll, at which stage the installation freezes. I failed to interrupt the running process and found the only way to stop it was to kill squeak. It seems to be that Squeak is caught in some endless loop, which is gradually using more memory - Windows starts giving me low virtual memory warnings after sometime.
Make sure you are using one of the later releases of the Windows Squeak VM. I suggest you try the latest; you can download it from here... http://www.squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.10.6-bin.zip
Then perform the install from the Package Universe Browser as you did before.
Cheers, Andy
Hi,
Make sure you are using one of the later releases of the Windows Squeak VM. I suggest you try the latest; you can download it from here... http://www.squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.10.6-bin.zip
Then perform the install from the Package Universe Browser as you did before.
This fixed the problem. Squeak has never looked better. I manually changed the fonts using System menu->appearance->system fonts... Should this have happened automatically when I installed the package or is there a script I could run that would do it for me?
Thanks again
Nick
It doesn't choose a font by default. Probably would be a good idea to open a font chooser. It bugs me to have to set so many different font defaults through the menus. I added a method to Preferences to set my preferences. I then save this via Monticello and reload after getting a new image:
http://www.nabble.com/Re:-setting-the-font-in-a-System-Browser-p12098779.htm...
On 9/18/07, Nick Ager nick.ager@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Make sure you are using one of the later releases of the Windows Squeak VM. I suggest you try the latest; you can download it from here... http://www.squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.10.6-bin.zip
Then perform the install from the Package Universe Browser as you did before.
This fixed the problem. Squeak has never looked better. I manually changed the fonts using System menu->appearance->system fonts... Should this have happened automatically when I installed the package or is there a script I could run that would do it for me?
Thanks again
Nick
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David Mitchell-10 wrote:
It doesn't choose a font by default. Probably would be a good idea to open a font chooser. It bugs me to have to set so many different font defaults through the menus. I added a method to Preferences to set my preferences. I then save this via Monticello and reload after getting a new image:
http://www.nabble.com/Re:-setting-the-font-in-a-System-Browser-p12098779.htm...
Thanks for the link - your code worked beautifully. Squeak has never looked so good.
Nick
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