These are the last updates before I put out a gamma candidate image tomorrow. A couple of important fixes from Ned, and some pre-release related updates from me. One of these tweaks the window titlebar font to be non-bold if it is a TrueType font, since all of the TT fonts are considerably thicker/wider than the non TT fonts... way too wide when bold, as people have complained. (We could revert this in the future if we come across some good skinny TT fonts.)
To create the gamma candidate, I'll execute the new SmalltalkImage>>prepareReleaseImage method, which performs various cleanups. (Be sure to look at this method to see if I've left anything out or done anything harmful. There's a bit of redundancy in there but that should be okay.) Then I'll run a script to regenerate the window titlebars to clean those up. I'll also add a "New in 3.7" section to the Welcome window, summarizing the new features in 3.7. That will be it for 3.7-basic. Full is still a bit up in the air as to what the image will look like, but if all else fails we can just load in the Full packages which are working and call it Full.
In SmalltalkImage>>prepareReleaseImage, these were the only possibly questionable things which I left in from the longer scripts which Michael had created:
ScriptingSystem deletePrivateGraphics. "?" References keys do:[:k| References removeKey: k]. "?" Smalltalk forgetDoIts. "?" Smalltalk flushClassNameCache. "?"
There could still possibly be an update or two for gamma after the candidate is released, but hopefully there will be none. We could shoot for this weekend for 3.7 final if things look okay.
- Doug
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5979NewParagraphComposeFix-nk -- Ned Konz -- 23 June 2004 We have had the problem in the past with broken text morphs being distributed in the image. This change set adds a guard in NewParagraph to avoid the problems caused by the (uncommon) case of a paragraph with inconsistent state.
5980TTCFontSizeRepair-nk -- Ned Konz -- 18 July 2004 The changes to the TTCFonts done in CS 5923PSPointSizeFix-nk didn't clear out the derivative fonts cache. This left some fonts with a discrepancy between the size of the regular and bold derivatives. Where this is noticeable is where you had a default font (perhaps the window title font or the etoys font) set to a TTCFont (like ComicSansMS). This CS forces the TTCFonts with bad derivative sizes to rebuild themselves. This fixes a problem with the distribution image and also makes the old windows look better. It cures the problem that we've seen with bad flap and window title bar layout with some TTCFonts. Then it does what it can to update all the users of those fonts. As a side effect, it updates the buttons of old windows like the ones in the distribution image. It also fixes AbstractFont>>textStyle to always answer a TextStyle, even if we have to create a new one. This avoids problems with some users of #textStyle.
5981UndeclaredCleanup-dew -- Doug Way -- 22 July 2004 Delete 4 unused methods which reference nonexistent instance variables. (They would have been removed already except that the SM installer depended on Monticello (which is not part of the basic image yet in 3.7) to correctly delete old methods.)"
5982SysWinInitLabelArea-dew -- Doug Way -- 29 July 2004 Simple cut & paste refactoring which splits out an initializeLabelArea method called from SystemWindow>>initialze. This makes regenerating label areas (titlebars) on existing windows (e.g. for the gamma image preparation) doable. Also fixes centering of label in the titlebar, and only uses bold with non-TT fonts for the window title (since the bold TT fonts are quite a bit thicker/wider than bold strikefonts)."
5983PrepareReleaseImage-dew -- Doug Way -- 1 August 2004 Adds SmalltalkImage>>prepareReleaseImage which can be executed to perform various cleanups in preparation for a gamma candidate release image."
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Beware that update 5980 will fail if there is a window open that has been made "uncloseable". Otherwise things seem to be cool when updating a latest 3.7 "Jeanne d'Arc" image.
Alex
Hi,
This is uploaded at:
ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.7gamma/Squeak3.7g-5983.zip
cheers
bruce
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Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 03:25:43 -0400 From: dway@mailcan.com Subject: [UPDATES] 5 for Squeak3.7gamma To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org reply-to: The general-purpose Squeak developers list squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org content-length: 4086
These are the last updates before I put out a gamma candidate image tomorrow. A couple of important fixes from Ned, and some pre-release related updates from me. One of these tweaks the window titlebar font to be non-bold if it is a TrueType font, since all of the TT fonts are considerably thicker/wider than the non TT fonts... way too wide when bold, as people have complained. (We could revert this in the future if we come across some good skinny TT fonts.)
To create the gamma candidate, I'll execute the new SmalltalkImage>>prepareReleaseImage method, which performs various cleanups. (Be sure to look at this method to see if I've left anything out or done anything harmful. There's a bit of redundancy in there but that should be okay.) Then I'll run a script to regenerate the window titlebars to clean those up. I'll also add a "New in 3.7" section to the Welcome window, summarizing the new features in 3.7. That will be it for 3.7-basic. Full is still a bit up in the air as to what the image will look like, but if all else fails we can just load in the Full packages which are working and call it Full.
In SmalltalkImage>>prepareReleaseImage, these were the only possibly questionable things which I left in from the longer scripts which Michael had created:
ScriptingSystem deletePrivateGraphics. "?" References keys do:[:k| References removeKey: k]. "?" Smalltalk forgetDoIts. "?" Smalltalk flushClassNameCache. "?"
There could still possibly be an update or two for gamma after the candidate is released, but hopefully there will be none. We could shoot for this weekend for 3.7 final if things look okay.
- Doug
5979NewParagraphComposeFix-nk -- Ned Konz -- 23 June 2004 We have had the problem in the past with broken text morphs being distributed in the image. This change set adds a guard in NewParagraph to avoid the problems caused by the (uncommon) case of a paragraph with inconsistent state.
5980TTCFontSizeRepair-nk -- Ned Konz -- 18 July 2004 The changes to the TTCFonts done in CS 5923PSPointSizeFix-nk didn't clear out the derivative fonts cache. This left some fonts with a discrepancy between the size of the regular and bold derivatives. Where this is noticeable is where you had a default font (perhaps the window title font or the etoys font) set to a TTCFont (like ComicSansMS). This CS forces the TTCFonts with bad derivative sizes to rebuild themselves. This fixes a problem with the distribution image and also makes the old windows look better. It cures the problem that we've seen with bad flap and window title bar layout with some TTCFonts. Then it does what it can to update all the users of those fonts. As a side effect, it updates the buttons of old windows like the ones in the distribution image. It also fixes AbstractFont>>textStyle to always answer a TextStyle, even if we have to create a new one. This avoids problems with some users of #textStyle.
5981UndeclaredCleanup-dew -- Doug Way -- 22 July 2004 Delete 4 unused methods which reference nonexistent instance variables. (They would have been removed already except that the SM installer depended on Monticello (which is not part of the basic image yet in 3.7) to correctly delete old methods.)"
5982SysWinInitLabelArea-dew -- Doug Way -- 29 July 2004 Simple cut & paste refactoring which splits out an initializeLabelArea method called from SystemWindow>>initialze. This makes regenerating label areas (titlebars) on existing windows (e.g. for the gamma image preparation) doable. Also fixes centering of label in the titlebar, and only uses bold with non-TT fonts for the window title (since the bold TT fonts are quite a bit thicker/wider than bold strikefonts)."
5983PrepareReleaseImage-dew -- Doug Way -- 1 August 2004 Adds SmalltalkImage>>prepareReleaseImage which can be executed to perform various cleanups in preparation for a gamma candidate release image."
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