John M McIntosh wrote:
> 
> on 8/4/00 9:02 AM, Karl Ramberg at karl.ramberg at chello.se wrote:
> 
> > First of all, thanks for all the great work! I'm looking forward to
> > the browser plugin:-)
> >
> > A minor bug:
> > When I just double click the VM it gives me a little confuced
> > menu row: the apple, File, Edit, the apple again, File, Edit and Help.
> > The first apple, File and Edit does not work.
> >
> > And wouldn't the mac way when you double click the VM be to ask the user
> > to locate a image it can open ?
> >
> > I'm using mac os 8.6
> >
> >
> > Karl
> >
> 
> Hi, if you double click and there isn't a squeak.image handy then the
> traditional response is to write a message to the Unix console
> 
> Could not open the Squeak image file 'Lamie:xxx:temp:squeak.image'
> 
> There are several ways to open a Squeak image file. You can:
>   1. Double-click on the desired image file.
>   2. Drop the image file icon onto the Squeak application or an alias to it.
>   3. Name your image 'squeak.image' and put it in the same folder as the
>      Squeak application, then double-click on the Squeak application.
> 
> Press the return key to exit.
> 
> You should have gotten a window up with the text above in it? Let me know if
> you didn't, that would be a bug and it wasn't clear if you in fact got the
> message. This also has the sideeffect of loading a set of menus for the fake
> unix console to use so you can cut/copy/paste. (Not nice, but required),
> since at this point you have aborted the running of the real application.

Well, if it's required, it's not a bug. 
> 
> You are correct in saying that we should really put up a dialog and ask the
> user to select an image, which is a more mac friendly thing to do. This
> probably applies to other ports were a dialog should go up to select an
> image, versus aborting the process.

Makes sense. More friendly to new users specially. The horror of a unix text window for 
a mac user...

Karl

Q: Can one bundle squeak as 'fat' app with mac os x ala the image, changes, vm etc. in one chunk ?
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