Hi,
I just encountered another walkback as I tried to 'Copy' (Alt. c) the title of 'SWT Code Configurations' window (Squeak VM 3.1 Alpha1):
'Error: a primitive has failed'
'SystemDictionary>>clipboardText:'
"<primitive: 141> ^ self primitiveFailed"
The 'New title for this window' window cannot be dismissed with neither 'Accept' nor 'Cancel' !
It looks like only 'SWT Code Configurations' and 'Squeak World Tour Bootstrap' windows suffers this problem.
Cheers,
PhiHo
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andres Valloud" sqrmax@prodigy.net To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 8:02 PM Subject: Re: The VM is in the Swiki
Hi.
Hopefully when he has time to play with SWT 0.6, he will post another fix for the new exception handling.
It would be good to have a compatibility module in the repository.
What I still do not understand is why it is necessary to change the primitive numbers, or why it is necessary to check from Smalltalk what kind of exception support is in the VM. We're just making images and VMs incompatible with each other. I think it would be much easier to make VMs polymorphic from a primitive behavior point of view, but I'll welcome any illuminating comments any of you may have.
Andres.