[ANN] [UPDATES] Nine updates for 3.3a
Bruce ONeel
beoneel at bluewin.ch
Mon Aug 5 12:00:21 UTC 2002
Hi,
ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.3alpha/Squeak3.3a-4951.zip
is now uploaded.
cheers
bruce
Scott Wallace <scott.wallace at squeakland.org> wrote:
> The first six updates in this batch are destined soon to be
> retrofitted into 3.2 (along with a few of the recent 3.3a updates
> published last week); they consist of bug fixes and performance
> tweaks arising out of recent activity on the Squeak mailing list.
>
> The remaining three are not expected to be published to 3.2, though
> all three of them work fine when loaded into a 3.2 image as goodies.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> -- Scott
>
> ----------------
>
> 4937soundTileFix-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 31 July 2002
> Sound tiles created with the SoundRecorder will again be well-formed.
> They had gotten broken somewhere along the way.
>
> 4938debuggerFix-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 29 July 2002
> Fixes a bug introduced in update4487SyntaxErrorsOnFileIn-svp (October
> 2001) which compromised the mvc environment whenever a debugger was
> brought up. The workaround here, done without any pretension to deep
> knowledge of the underlying issues, is to restore the method in
> question (Debugger >> process:controller:context:isolationHead:) to
> its former behavior in the mvc case, while letting it work its
> putative magic in morphic.
>
> 4939cachePushpin-nk -- Ned Konz -- 1 August 2002
> This provides caching for the menu titlebar icons so they don't have
> to be built every time.
>
> 4940assureRecent-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 1 August 2002
> Fixes the serious performance bug that if the method most recently
> submitted to the system subsequently got removed, recent-submissions
> browsers would continuously recompute their message lists.
>
> 4941fasterPopUp-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 4 August 2002
> Reduces unnecessary invalidation upon display of pop-up menus in
> morphic by precomputing the contents of dynamic menu items directly
> rather than via preliminary insertion into the world.
>
> 4942extrasFix-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 4 August 2002
> Fixes a bug in the logic governing when the 'put into a window' item
> should be offered in the extras menu.
>
> 4949classCommentStamp-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 1 August 2002
> * Fixes the long-standing deficiency that had kept
> class-comment-time-stamps from getting properly imported and
> preserved upon file-in.
> * Makes the annotation pane of a code tool show the class-comment's
> time-stamp when the tool (browser or message-list) is displaying a
> class comment. At last.
> * Makes browsers and message-lists that are pointing at class
> comments keep up-to-date when the class comments have changed
> elsewhere, uniform with the way the 'smart-updating' mechanism has
> worked for actual methods for years.
> * Note that most class comments in the system have the old
> place-holder '<historical>' stamp, caused by the earlier flaws in
> this mechanism; and this update cannot recapture the original
> authoring stamps for these, but at least from this point forward,
> class-comment authoring stamps *should* be preserved, maintained,
> shown in annotation panes, and properly carried forward from image to
> image via fileout.
> * Still waiting for someone to undertake: a
> class-comment-versions-browser tool.
>
> 4950classNamesContaining-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 31 July 2002
> Adds 'class names containing it' to the more... (shifted) branch of
> the text-editor menus; when chosen, this new command puts up a
> class-list browser displaying all classes whose names contain the
> current text selection. Use shift-key to make the search
> case-sensitive.
>
> 4951dateSortAndRecent-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 1 August 2002
> Two largely unrelated enhancements:
> * Allows user to request that a message-list be sorted by date of
> submission, via a new command in the shifted selector-list menu.
> Especially useful in implementors browsers, senders browsers,
> change-set browsers, etc. The oldest methods will be found at the
> top of the message-list, the most-recently-submitted ones at the
> bottom.
> * Allows user to specify the number of past methods to be retained in
> the recent-submissions history; this is available in the shifted
> selector-list menu of a Recent Submissions browser.
>
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