Hi Simon,
We're are working in a restricted Windows environment in the university classroom. What we made is to install the virtual machine and the image in any file where the user have read and write permissions and then drop the *.image file on the Squeak mouse Icon. May be is not the most efficient way, but it works fine and the people can then go with their image an virtual machine in a usb drive and keep working on other places.
I hope this helps,
Offray
Simon Guest escribió:
Hi,
I'm a maths teacher (and ex software engineer), and have been playing with the developer version of Squeak for a while now, and although the learning curve is fairly steep, I am using it successfully in school.
I see that the Squeakland release is recommended for teachers over the squeak.org version, I guess because etoys have been made to work nicely. However, I am experiencing severe frustration in getting it to run. What is the security model?
Here's the problem. On WinXP, I install it as administrator. As soon as I try to run as a normal user, it fails ("a primitive has failed", although the error message is in German). I think this is because I cannot write to the image file, quite rightly, since it is owned by the administrator, and as a normal user I could not be trusted not to muck it up.
So I copied the image file into my own directory, and ran the Squeakland vm on it, but it fails with the same error. Can anyone help?
I'm a little discouraged, as I'm wondering how I will persuade much less technically oriented colleagues in school that Squeak is useful for teaching if the installation is a black art. I am sure my mode of use must be the most common among school users of Squeak. Could it not be supported by the default install?
cheers, Simon
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