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

[dav0]

Hmmm...  I tried saving & quitting, then downloading SqueakV39.sources.gz
from http://squeak.org/Download/, unzipping this and copying the
resulting SqueakV39.sources into my workspace and re-running my Squeak vm
and I can still reproduce the error.

I am also not sure what you mean by contemporary Squeak, but I am running
this on Linux Fedora, with the latest squeak-vm which I installed using yum
as follows:

$ yum install squeak-vm

$ squeak -version
3.10-5 #1 Mon Jun 21 22:10:08 UTC 2010 gcc 4.4.4
Squeak3.10beta of 22 July 2007 [latest update: #7159]
Linux x86-04.phx2.fedoraproject.org 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 #1 SMP Sun May 2
04:17:42 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
default plugin location: /usr/lib64/squeak/3.10-5/*.so

As for the love of debugging, let's just say that I'm sharing the love.
 :-)  Actually, I'd love to see this software work - it seems like a really
neat language toolset.

Thanks again,
Dave


On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Chris Cunnington <
smalltalktelevision at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12-08-22 5:46 PM, dav0 wrote:
>
>> OK, so I rebuilt the tutorial from scratch and I am able to reproduce the
>> syntax error again now when I click on a yellow square.  I'm not real sure
>> what the syntax error is because the tutorial hasn't covered much of the
>> Smalltalk syntax yet.
>>
>> I am also seeing the same sort of display symptoms as before, where the
>> checkerboard is offset around 50 pixels both in the x and the y directions
>> - indicating that the syntax error has something to do with the
>> checkerboard's positioning.
>>
>> I am attaching the sources which I manually saved along the way
>> (SBE-Quinto.sources).  Note: I did make one change to the original PDF code
>> which seems to have an extra dash '-' in the Class category (package) name,
>> where two of the provided methods specify "SBE--Quinto" instead of
>> "SBE-Quinto" as the tutorial says to use.
>>
>> The one thing which I am doing that I suspect may be part of the problem
>> is the fact that I have newer Squeak sources than those which are
>> referenced by the book.  The book's SBE image seems to complain every time
>> I start up displaying a little pop-up which says "SqueakV39.sources does
>> not exist" at which point, I always "Choose another name" from the menu and
>> select my more recent "SqueakV41.sources" which I downloaded previously.
>>  Could this be causing this issue?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Dave
>>
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> Kudos to you for persisting and rebuilding the exercise. That's good.
> You do want to match your sources file with the right image. As you can
> see from this page, there are sources for various Squeak releases:
>
> http://squeak.org/Download/
>
> It sounds to me that if you are starting and it asks for
> SqueakV39.sources, then you are downloading an image from somewhere of
> which I am unfamiliar. It might be easiest to download Squeak from the
> homepage, get an all-in-one and leave the business of sources files to the
> maker of that package.
>
> http://www.squeak.org.
>
> The sources may be the problem. They may not be. Either way, perhaps you
> should upgrade to contemporary Squeak? Then, you have the working sources
> available at
>
> http://www.squeaksource.com/**SqueakByExample<http://www.squeaksource.com/SqueakByExample>
>
> You can use that version of the game to compare with the one you've
> rebuilt by hand.
>
> I'm not sure it's my role here to actually find the syntax error for you.
> Bug hunting is really the fun of programming and I wouldn't want to take
> that way from you. :)
>
>
> HTH,
> Chris
>
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