Andreas, It's great!
And is there a change set to make the current Croquet 1.0.18.image (3.8 based) closure ready also?
Thanks, Nikolay
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Andreas Raab andreas.raab@gmx.de wrote:
Folks -
Since I was in VM building mode today I figured I might as well make a new Squeak VM. There is some interesting new stuff in it:
- Closure support. This VM is based on VMMaker-dtl.116 meaning it includes
support for the closure bytecodes. I have verified it by both running a Qwaq image on this VM and and a converted closure image on our Stack VM (this is useful since the Stack VM will die a horrible death something goes wrong in the process). It worked fine both ways which means that I no longer need to switch VMs (yay! ;-)
- Experimental large cursor support. Try the following for fun (but don't
do it in an image you care about):
cursor := Cursor extent: 128@128 depth: 32. cursor offset: -64@-64. cursor getCanvas fillOval: cursor boundingBox color: (Color white alpha:0.1); frameOval: cursor boundingBox width: 4 color: Color red; line: 62@64 to: 66@64 width: 1 color: Color blue; line: 64@62 to: 64@66 width: 1 color: Color blue. Cursor classPool at: #NormalCursor put: cursor.
This changes your normal cursor to be a 128x128 pixels large, translucent cursor.
- FT2Plugin. The build includes an external FT2Plugin that has no
dependencies on extra DLLs.
The downloads are in the usual places: http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.11.1-bin.zip http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.11.1-src.zip
A closure image (for those interested): http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/Squeak-3.10.2-Closures.zip
Note that I consider this an "alpha" version since there is a goodly bit of new and untested stuff in it. I'm in particular interested in finding people to test large cursor support and the FT2Plugin.
Feedback is highly welcome.
Cheers,
- Andreas