[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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