John McIntosh Posted this a couple days ago to Squeak-dev. Ken

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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:18:06 -0800 From: John M McIntosh johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com Subject: mac carbon VM 3.8.14b3 pending To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org Message-ID: 55A53A0E-9BFE-4B24-AAEB-CC95D663FD81@smalltalkconsulting.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed

I've posted a 3.8.14b3 Mac carbon VM to my ftp site and idisk for testing. Some notes are below, the big changes are for ppc, and macIntel browser support (safari/firefix), headless support, remapping of mouse buttons, and adding Exupery support for MacIntel.

http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com/squeak.html

Please let me know if there are issues.

PS Yes I know sound recording is broken somehow, I hope to explore why at some point this weekend, although the unix code was swapped in at 3.8.6b5 and no one noticed anything, assuming anyone does sound recording anymore, and perhaps it's just a macintel issue, yet another endian issue one can hope.

3.8.14b3 sqMacWIndowUnversial.c Ensure window is created when non- headless and not running under the browser typo in check prevent squeak from showing the window when running standalone for 3.8.14b2. sqMacMain.c Check processsor status at startup, if non-headless and LSBackgroundOnly is true, then switch process to foreground. info.plist rest LSBackgroundOnly to false, from true, to avoid Dock display issue. People wanting true headless app need then to alter info.plist

revert bitBlt>copyLoop changes, introduced drawing problems, look 

at fixing later, or never as time permits

3.8.14b2 Fixes for browser support 3.8.14b1 New browser support on os-x mac/macintel for safari and firefox. This logic now follows the example set by the unix plugin, where we run the VM headless and talk to the browser plugin stub via a two- way pipe to enable fetching data via a URL, drawing the screen, and setting the cursor.

Thanks to Viewpoint Research for funding this effort.
This VM had limited distribution.

sqMacOpenGL.c			- remove BROWSERPLUGIN
sqMacUnixFileInterface.c	- needed include for sqUnixCharConv.h
sqMacHostWindow.c		- remove BROWSERPLUGIN
sqMacMain.c				- remove BROWSERPLUGIN, add browser pipe logic,
						rearrange startup to handle startup with out window for 

browser support. sqMacMemory.c - remove BROWSERPLUGIN sqMacTime.c - remove BROWSERPLUGIN sqMacUIAppleEvents.c - remove BROWSERPLUGIN sqMacUIEventsUniversal.c - remove BROWSERPLUGIN, expose some internals so new browser support code can call or access. sqMacUnixCommandLineInterface.c - add headfull cmd for browser testing sqMacUnixExernalPrims.c - remove BROWSERPLUGIN sqMacWIndowUnversial.c - remove BROWSERPLUGIN, changes for browser support, assume window is hidden which is different from being headless. sqNamedPrims.h - remove BROWSERPLUGIN sqPlatformSpecific.h - remove BROWSERPLUGIN, add URL_FETCH npSqueak - Directory, add plugin for browser into source tree sqMacNSPLuginUILogic2.c - new file to replace sqmacNSPluginUILogic.c sqMacNSPLuginUILogic2.h - new file to replace sqmacNSPluginUILogic2.c

3.8.13.b4 Headless support sqMacMain.c headless, set background to false if not headless. alter uuid returned to signify which VM this is

info.plist
swap buttons to ensure cmd/opt of trackpad is right
Add LSBackgroundOnly to yes i

sqMacEventsUniversal.c
headless support

sqMacUnixCommandLineInterface.c headless parm -headless added sqMacWindowUniversal.c headless support platforms/Cross/plugins/ExuperyPLugin created

3.8.13.b4, b5, b6, b7 Had limited distribution to test new button modification logic 3.8.13.b3 bitBlt>copyLoop changes, normally it prefetchs the next byte for barrel shifting 64 bits when copying from one form to another, and a dirty secret and old bug is that it reads one word past the end of the Form when it processes the last word in the Form. However when you use surfaces where the surface is allocated elsewhere not in object space and in fact say the allocated form is 2MB and the vm memory system makes the frame past the 2MB range non-readable, why then you die on a read protection failure. So alter the loop to consider if it's preload and the last line we don't do the pre-fetch because that could cause a read failure. 3.8.13.b2 Exupery support, via plugin and changes in the VM for Mac Intel, use merged VMMaker-Exupery change set

3.8.13.b1 Exupery support, via plugin and changes in the VM for Mac Intel. http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/5672

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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:53:04 -0500 From: Frank Caggiano frankcag@crystal-objects.com Subject: Re: [Squeakland] [BUG] Can't use Squeakland plugin very well from Firefox... To: Ned Konz ned@bike-nomad.com Cc: squeakland@squeakland.org Message-ID: C5041CB6-A8C0-48C6-8E3A-939F2C918B84@crystal-objects.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed

On Nov 17, 2006, at 11:02, Ned Konz wrote:

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Hi all,

I just tried to use the Squeakland plugin on my Mac Mini. I'm running the most recent version of Tiger (10.4.8), and I have a Squeakland image that I just downloaded.

I'm using Firefox 2.0 as a browser.

When I try to run the test project from the Squeakland website (or the Weasel Essay):

• I get a SyntaxError notification, with the text:

'Nothing more expected-><'

I'm getting the same error on a PowerPc G5 with 10.4.8 in both Firefox 2 and Safari.

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Frank Caggiano frankcag at crystal-objects dot com http://www.crystal-objects.com

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