Updates, some for 2.8, some for 2.9

Bruce ONeel beoneel at mindspring.com
Wed Jun 21 09:09:26 UTC 2000


Hi,
  <ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu//Smalltalk/Squeak/2.8/files/Squeak2.9a-2426.zip>
has these changes.

cheers

bruce


"Ted K." <Ted.Kaehler at disney.com> wrote:
> Folks,
> 	There were some serious usability problems with 2.9alpha.  Bob
> Arning has addressed most of them, and I added a few fixes.  If you aborted
> a fileIn that used the new progress indicator, type-in panes would stop
> working.  Eventually the emergency error handler would be invoked.
> 	The result is two new updates:
> 
> 
> 2425multiProjects4-RAA -- Bob Arning -- 16 June 2000
> - improvements to the ComplexProgressIndicator.  Is removed when interrupted.
> - fixed glitch when Display was resized
> - added two methods to Stream so that parse nodes could be printed without
> encountering dialect problems.  (MethodFinder find by example was broken.)
> - fixed problem in RecentMessageSet where the selection was constantly
> forced to the first item
> 
> - introducing some FileList variants using hierarchical lists. The main
> reason is to create some simplified file locators for loading projects, but
> you may want to use this in other circumstances as well.
> - miscellaneous improvements to hierarchical list
> - coordinate transformation fix for flaps in scaled projects
> - utility space comparison before and after methods
> - fix for opening an MVC view in a Morpic world
> - handle string returned where boolean expectd in #storeOnServerInnards
> - properly pick up flexed morphs
> - fixed flap tab remaining behind when popup on mouseover = false
> 
> 2426detectCrLf-tk -- Ted Kaehler -- 20 June 2000
> Stuffit Expander 5.0 and other decompression programs have the annoying
> habit of converting carriage returns into CrLfs.  Detect when there are
> CrLfs and there are no bare Lfs and warn the user to change the preferences
> and unpack again.  Checks the two common cases of the Changes file (in a
> new release of the system) and a SmartRefStream (a project)."
> 
> --Ted.
> 
> 
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