[Newbies] Newbie stuck on page 43 of SBE getting syntax error trying to run SBEGame (Quinto)

[dav0]

Oops!  I must not have done this the way you had in mind because when I did
the "save contents to a file" command from my Workspace window, I
apparently only ended up with a file (default filename= "Workspace.text")
with the following text in it:

SBEGame new openInWorld

Since I did not save anything, I ended up losing my entire tutorial.  I
guess I should have verified that I had something of use in that file
before I quit Squeak without saving.  The good news is: the error is
certainly gone now!


On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Chris Cunnington <
smalltalktelevision at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12-08-22 3:33 PM, dav0 wrote:
>
>> Well, I am following the Book's tutorial, and I have a local workspace
>> where I have written the entire application from scratch as outlined in the
>> book, so yes, there is an expected error at this point, but I am expecting
>> to see a "MessageNotUnderstood" error as the next step has me doing
>> something to practice using the debugger - I don't think I'm supposed to be
>> getting the syntax error I am getting.
>>
>> Another clue on this syntax error is that I can also see the blue game
>> background displaying in what seems to be the correct location, and then
>> the checkerboard is displaying too, but it was offset by around 50 pixels
>> on both the x and y coordinates.  Chances are, whatever the syntax error is
>> involves the placement of the checkerboard.
>>
>> At any rate, I guess I need to undo whatever I just did (loading the
>> remote repository from the URL) so I can get back to diagnosing this issue
>> and/or skipping this step and moving on to the next one.  Any idea how I
>> can do this?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Dave
>>
>>
> OK, you've got everything in a Workspace. And there's a syntax error.
>
> The first thing I would do is click the blue down arrow on the Workspace
> and select "save contents to file...", which will put a file in your image
> directory of the contents of the Workspace.
> The next thing would be to quit without saving. Notice I said "without".
> That will get rid off the code you just loaded from the Internet.
> Then open your file of saved code, cut and paste it into a Workspace, and
> resume looking for the syntax error.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Chris
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