New Squeak

John Hinsley jhinsley at telinco.co.uk
Sat Feb 2 01:18:42 UTC 2002


John Hinsley wrote:
> 
> Gary McGovern wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > Tonight I just updated Squeak from 3,1 alpha to the latest updates. I've only played
> > around for a few minutes and nearly everything I tried didn't work.
> >
> > MPEGMovieplayerMorph
> > primitive failed.
> >
> > MPEGPlayerMorph
> > primtive failed
> >
> > MPEGDisplayMorph
> > nothing
> >
> > Grab with lasso from screen
> > Message not understood.
> >
> > Grab with rubber band from screen
> > Message not understood
> >
> > Grab flood ares from screen
> > Message not understood.
> >
> > Are these still works in progress or should they be working ?
> 
> They should be working. My guess is that you need to grab the latest vm
> and plugins. If you go onto the modules updates, you'll encounter futher
> things_that_don't_work. Really, I'd suggest that you don't use the
> modules version for "serious" work yet. But 4664 is pretty stable, in
> *nix guise at least. Can't speak for Windows.
> 
> But the modules will represent a huge step forward when they're fully
> debugged ;-)

Just a thought re: the "primitive failed" messages. You have got the
plugins in the same directory as the new image?


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