I'm on win2k pro and as soon as I install the DLLs from the Universe Browser, the Squeak screen goes black and the processor pegs 100%. If I press Ctrl+., the processor relents, but I don't get a refresh.
Troubleshooting steps:
Started with fresh Win32 download and Damien's squeak-web-118.image. Open Package Universe Browser. When the Preamble progress bar appears for Installing FreeType Plugins 0.13, Squeak stops responding. If I bring another window across it, it doesn't redraw the screen.
At this point, I kill the Squeak process (after waiting several minutes). Looking in the Squeak directory, I see I have a package cache from the Universe Browser and these files copied in:
BitBltPlugin.dll freetype6.dll ft2plugin.dll msvcr71.dll credits.txt
Restarting any Squeak image at this point will show only a blank screen (tried several of mine and Squeak3.9-final-7067.image). So I think something isn't working at the VM level with the plugins.
I also recreated by trying again and only installing the Plugins. Same result.
I also tried clearing out my fonts (fell back to Arial, Times New Roman, Courier, Symbol, and Wingdings, a la Windows 3.1; albeit with OpenType). Also tried rebooting (I am on Windows).
Any ideas?
, starting any squeak image (even if I copy back an image without
On 5/1/07, Chris Muller asqueaker@gmail.com wrote:
Sheesh.. Total, utter, maximum Gorgeousity. Thank you Andy, thank you. This really lurches the look of my image forward a big step.
I spent the whole day looking at my fonts. I never thought it would happen, but I found something I like (a lot) better than Verdana for the code font. It's called "Tw Cen MT (OpenType)" which I guess is "Twentieth Century".
The Century fonts for other stuff are really gorgeous too.
I got a new computer a couple of months of go with a high-res screen, so I'm enjoying "big" (>= 14-point) fonts with "no hinting". It's high contrast and no jaggies at all.
Thanks again! Chris
On 4/28/07, Andrew Tween amtween@hotmail.com wrote:
This is an official announcement that the FreeType Plus packages are now released.
You can download from SqueakMap, or via the Package Universe within a developer Squeak (squeak-dev) image.
I will be documenting various aspects of this on the wiki; at present you can view some screenshots, and read some preliminary descriptions, at http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5984
It will work, to varying degrees, on Windows (98, 2000, XP, & Vista); Linux (OpenSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.); and Mac OS X.
It requires an FT2Plugin, which is shipped with the Mac VM, and is available for Windows/Linux via the FreeType Plus (plugins installer) package.
To enable sub-pixel anti-aliasing, the optional, and separate, FreeType Plus (sub-pixel anti-aliasing) package must be installed. This requires a modified BitBltPlugin. This is currently available for Windows/Linux only, and is installed via the FreeType Plus (plugins installer) package. If anybody wishes to attempt compile it for Macs, then please let me know.
Rather than try to describe everything, and anticipate every question in advance, I would rather wait to see how people get on with installing/using it, and then update and improve the documentation accordingly. So, if you have problems, then please let me know; and if you have success then that would be nice to hear about too :)
Cheers, Andy
Hi David, ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Mitchell" david.mitchell@gmail.com To: ma.chris.m@gmail.com; "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [ANN] FreeType Plus release -- Can't get to work on Win2k
I'm on win2k pro and as soon as I install the DLLs from the Universe Browser, the Squeak screen goes black and the processor pegs 100%. If I press Ctrl+., the processor relents, but I don't get a refresh.
Troubleshooting steps:
Started with fresh Win32 download and Damien's squeak-web-118.image. Open Package Universe Browser. When the Preamble progress bar appears for Installing FreeType Plugins 0.13, Squeak stops responding. If I bring another window across it, it doesn't redraw the screen.
At this point, I kill the Squeak process (after waiting several minutes). Looking in the Squeak directory, I see I have a package cache from the Universe Browser and these files copied in:
BitBltPlugin.dll freetype6.dll ft2plugin.dll msvcr71.dll credits.txt
Restarting any Squeak image at this point will show only a blank screen (tried several of mine and Squeak3.9-final-7067.image). So I think something isn't working at the VM level with the plugins.
Make sure that you are using the 3.9.2 Windows VM. (to check this, click on the Mouse icon at the top left to bing up the system menu. Then choose VM Preferences>>Display Version Information)
Cheers, Andy
I also recreated by trying again and only installing the Plugins. Same result.
I also tried clearing out my fonts (fell back to Arial, Times New Roman, Courier, Symbol, and Wingdings, a la Windows 3.1; albeit with OpenType). Also tried rebooting (I am on Windows).
Any ideas?
, starting any squeak image (even if I copy back an image without
On 5/1/07, Chris Muller asqueaker@gmail.com wrote:
Sheesh.. Total, utter, maximum Gorgeousity. Thank you Andy, thank you. This really lurches the look of my image forward a big step.
I spent the whole day looking at my fonts. I never thought it would happen, but I found something I like (a lot) better than Verdana for the code font. It's called "Tw Cen MT (OpenType)" which I guess is "Twentieth Century".
The Century fonts for other stuff are really gorgeous too.
I got a new computer a couple of months of go with a high-res screen, so I'm enjoying "big" (>= 14-point) fonts with "no hinting". It's high contrast and no jaggies at all.
Thanks again! Chris
On 4/28/07, Andrew Tween amtween@hotmail.com wrote:
This is an official announcement that the FreeType Plus packages are now released.
You can download from SqueakMap, or via the Package Universe within a
developer
Squeak (squeak-dev) image.
I will be documenting various aspects of this on the wiki; at present you
can
view some screenshots, and read some preliminary descriptions, at http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5984
It will work, to varying degrees, on Windows (98, 2000, XP, & Vista);
Linux
(OpenSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.); and Mac OS X.
It requires an FT2Plugin, which is shipped with the Mac VM, and is
available for
Windows/Linux via the FreeType Plus (plugins installer) package.
To enable sub-pixel anti-aliasing, the optional, and separate, FreeType
Plus
(sub-pixel anti-aliasing) package must be installed. This requires a modified BitBltPlugin. This is currently available for Windows/Linux only, and is installed via the FreeType Plus (plugins
installer)
package. If anybody wishes to attempt compile it for Macs, then please let
me
know.
Rather than try to describe everything, and anticipate every question in advance, I would rather wait to see how people get on with
installing/using it,
and then update and improve the documentation accordingly. So, if you have problems, then please let me know; and if you have success then that would
be
nice to hear about too :)
Cheers, Andy
That did it.
FANTASTIC!!!
Thanks!
On 5/2/07, Andrew Tween amtween@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi David, ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Mitchell" david.mitchell@gmail.com To: ma.chris.m@gmail.com; "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [ANN] FreeType Plus release -- Can't get to work on Win2k
I'm on win2k pro and as soon as I install the DLLs from the Universe Browser, the Squeak screen goes black and the processor pegs 100%. If I press Ctrl+., the processor relents, but I don't get a refresh.
Troubleshooting steps:
Started with fresh Win32 download and Damien's squeak-web-118.image. Open Package Universe Browser. When the Preamble progress bar appears for Installing FreeType Plugins 0.13, Squeak stops responding. If I bring another window across it, it doesn't redraw the screen.
At this point, I kill the Squeak process (after waiting several minutes). Looking in the Squeak directory, I see I have a package cache from the Universe Browser and these files copied in:
BitBltPlugin.dll freetype6.dll ft2plugin.dll msvcr71.dll credits.txt
Restarting any Squeak image at this point will show only a blank screen (tried several of mine and Squeak3.9-final-7067.image). So I think something isn't working at the VM level with the plugins.
Make sure that you are using the 3.9.2 Windows VM. (to check this, click on the Mouse icon at the top left to bing up the system menu. Then choose VM Preferences>>Display Version Information)
Cheers, Andy
I also recreated by trying again and only installing the Plugins. Same result.
I also tried clearing out my fonts (fell back to Arial, Times New Roman, Courier, Symbol, and Wingdings, a la Windows 3.1; albeit with OpenType). Also tried rebooting (I am on Windows).
Any ideas?
, starting any squeak image (even if I copy back an image without
On 5/1/07, Chris Muller asqueaker@gmail.com wrote:
Sheesh.. Total, utter, maximum Gorgeousity. Thank you Andy, thank you. This really lurches the look of my image forward a big step.
I spent the whole day looking at my fonts. I never thought it would happen, but I found something I like (a lot) better than Verdana for the code font. It's called "Tw Cen MT (OpenType)" which I guess is "Twentieth Century".
The Century fonts for other stuff are really gorgeous too.
I got a new computer a couple of months of go with a high-res screen, so I'm enjoying "big" (>= 14-point) fonts with "no hinting". It's high contrast and no jaggies at all.
Thanks again! Chris
On 4/28/07, Andrew Tween amtween@hotmail.com wrote:
This is an official announcement that the FreeType Plus packages are now released.
You can download from SqueakMap, or via the Package Universe within a
developer
Squeak (squeak-dev) image.
I will be documenting various aspects of this on the wiki; at present you
can
view some screenshots, and read some preliminary descriptions, at http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5984
It will work, to varying degrees, on Windows (98, 2000, XP, & Vista);
Linux
(OpenSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.); and Mac OS X.
It requires an FT2Plugin, which is shipped with the Mac VM, and is
available for
Windows/Linux via the FreeType Plus (plugins installer) package.
To enable sub-pixel anti-aliasing, the optional, and separate, FreeType
Plus
(sub-pixel anti-aliasing) package must be installed. This requires a modified BitBltPlugin. This is currently available for Windows/Linux only, and is installed via the FreeType Plus (plugins
installer)
package. If anybody wishes to attempt compile it for Macs, then please let
me
know.
Rather than try to describe everything, and anticipate every question in advance, I would rather wait to see how people get on with
installing/using it,
and then update and improve the documentation accordingly. So, if you have problems, then please let me know; and if you have success then that would
be
nice to hear about too :)
Cheers, Andy
Andrew Tween wrote:
Make sure that you are using the 3.9.2 Windows VM. (to check this, click on the Mouse icon at the top left to bing up the system menu. Then choose VM Preferences>>Display Version Information)
Why does running a different version completely lock up? This really shouldn't happen. It's bad for our (collective) image if people download cool stuff like this and end up with dead system. Can you elaborate on what the problem is?
Cheers, - Andreas
Hi Andreas, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Raab" andreas.raab@gmx.de To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 5:40 PM Subject: Re: [ANN] FreeType Plus release -- Can't get to work on Win2k
Andrew Tween wrote:
Make sure that you are using the 3.9.2 Windows VM. (to check this, click on the Mouse icon at the top left to bing up the
system
menu. Then choose VM Preferences>>Display Version Information)
Why does running a different version completely lock up? This really shouldn't happen. It's bad for our (collective) image if people download cool stuff like this and end up with dead system. Can you elaborate on what the problem is?
This is a guess...
I think that the external BitBltPlugin won't load into an old VM due to the version number checks that prevent loading of a plugin with a (major?) version greater than the VM's (major?) version. But having failed to load it, the VM doesn't then use its internal BitBltPlugin, and keeps trying to load the incompatible, external one instead. Hence a blank screen.
I think I should alter the installer to check the current VM version before copying the BitBltPlugin into the executable dir. The best check I can come up with (for Windows) is ...
SmalltalkImage current vmVersion ~= 'Squeak3.7 of ''4 September 2004'' [latest update: #5989]'
Is there a better check that would also work for custom built VMs? Cheers, Andy
Andrew Tween wrote:
I think that the external BitBltPlugin won't load into an old VM due to the version number checks that prevent loading of a plugin with a (major?) version greater than the VM's (major?) version. But having failed to load it, the VM doesn't then use its internal BitBltPlugin, and keeps trying to load the incompatible, external one instead. Hence a blank screen.
Hm ... yes that's entirely possible. It would happen if you implicitly use the latest proxy version (which has been bumped a couple of times). You could try to compile with an older version instead (just #define VM_PROXY_MINOR to be the least version with which it compiles).
I think I should alter the installer to check the current VM version before copying the BitBltPlugin into the executable dir. The best check I can come up with (for Windows) is ...
SmalltalkImage current vmVersion ~= 'Squeak3.7 of ''4 September 2004''[latest update: #5989]'
Is there a better check that would also work for custom built VMs?
No, unfortunately there isn't. We should add that information, too.
Cheers, - Andreas
Hi Andreas, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andreas Raab" andreas.raab@gmx.de To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 6:26 PM Subject: Re: [ANN] FreeType Plus release -- Can't get to work on Win2k
Andrew Tween wrote:
I think that the external BitBltPlugin won't load into an old VM due to the version number checks that prevent loading of a plugin with a (major?)
version
greater than the VM's (major?) version. But having failed to load it, the VM doesn't then use its internal
BitBltPlugin,
and keeps trying to load the incompatible, external one instead. Hence a
blank
screen.
Hm ... yes that's entirely possible. It would happen if you implicitly use the latest proxy version (which has been bumped a couple of times). You could try to compile with an older version instead (just #define VM_PROXY_MINOR to be the least version with which it compiles).
I think I should alter the installer to check the current VM version before copying the BitBltPlugin into the executable dir. The best check I can come up with (for Windows) is ...
SmalltalkImage current vmVersion ~= 'Squeak3.7 of ''4 September 2004''[latest update: #5989]'
Is there a better check that would also work for custom built VMs?
No, unfortunately there isn't. We should add that information, too.
I think I can get around this by simply 1. copying in the plugin, 2. unload and reload the BitBltPlugin module 3. check that the plugin has loaded ok (I already have a test for the presence of the new combination rule 41) 4. if it hasn't loaded, then delete the BitBltPlugin.dll file, and display a message to the user. I don't overwrite any existing external BitBltPlugin.dll file, so this should work.
Cheers, Andy
Cheers,
- Andreas
Andrew Tween wrote:
I think I can get around this by simply 1. copying in the plugin, 2. unload and reload the BitBltPlugin module 3. check that the plugin has loaded ok (I already have a test for the presence of the new combination rule 41) 4. if it hasn't loaded, then delete the BitBltPlugin.dll file, and display a message to the user. I don't overwrite any existing external BitBltPlugin.dll file, so this should work.
Yes, this should work nicely.
Cheers, - Andreas
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