About Updates [updates] 25 for 3.2gamma

stephane ducasse (home) ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Fri May 3 08:25:50 UTC 2002


Hi

I want to know if I'm the only to have problems to get updates since few 
days.
Every times recently dan sent an announce I could not get them.

The update code was telling me that all the changes were loaded.

Stef


On Friday, May 3, 2002, at 01:58  AM, Dan Ingalls wrote:

> Folks -
>
> I've just posted a number of updates to the servers, summarized below.  
> Note that 4855 will crunch for a while.
>
> 	- Dan
> --------------------------
> 4827CloseBoxInMenu2-nk -- Ned Konz -- 11 April 2002
> Changes:
> 11 April:
> * Changed title font back to standard menu font per Dan
> 6 April:
> * suppressed unnecessary icons when menus didn't have stay-up items.
> * got rid of dependency on ComicBold font
> 4 April:
> * fixed compatibility with 3.3
> 3 April:
> * fixed problem with MVCMenuMorph>>informUserAt:during:
> 2 April:
> * Made height of title bar the same height as the window
> title bars
> 31 Mar:
> * Changed font to regular window title font.
> * Made balloon help only appear if novice mode.
> This changes the stay-up look of titled MenuMorphs
> to more closely match the style of the SystemWindows.
> Morphic only.
>
> 4828misc-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 17 April 2002
> 1.  Provides a method that allows you to browse all methods stamped with 
> any given initials, based on a CSOD by Göran Hultgen.
> 2.  Sharpens the wording of the confirmer put up regarding the putative 
> loss of a preamble and/or postscript when a change set is expunged.  The 
> message now explicitly tells you which are present (preamble, postscript,
>  or both.)
> 3.  Provides a mechanism for the ChangeSetsInRelease change-set-category 
> to compute its baseline contents on the brink of release time"
>
> 4829simplerFlasher-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 18 April 2002
> A simpler and cleaner flasher"
>
> 4830resist-swjg -- Scott Wallace, Joshua Gargus -- 20 April 2002
> Fixes up a bug in the interaction between the resists-removal property 
> and the animate-to-trash code.
> Makes menu-wording improvements in the two 'resist' items, which are also 
> propagated into the corresponding Viewer wordings."
>
> 4831gridOriginFix-nk -- Ned Konz -- 16 April 2002
> The grid spec origin was not working reliably on pasteup morphs; if you 
> moved the pasteup morph the grid would shift.
> This change set fixes this problem."
>
> 4832loaderPromptFix-nk -- Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> -- 13 April 2002
> If there is a problem downloading, the download process pops up a menu. 
> Unfortunately, this is popped up from a non-UI thread, and crashes Squeak.
> This fixes that problem by making the menu run in the UI thread.
>
> 4833procBrowTallyUI-nk -- Ned Konz -- 17 April 2002
> (is the name small enough for Macs?)
> I noticed that the 'profile messages' choice in the ProcessBrowser no 
> longer worked for the UI. This should fix that problem."
>
> 4834processDebugFix2-nk -- Ned Konz -- 19 April 2002
> Yet another fix for the ProcessBrowser/CPUWatcher.
> This fixes a problem with debugging from the CPUWatcher notification.
> It should be fine for 3.3 and 3.2.
>
> 4835ptmMenuFix-nk -- Ned Konz -- 15 April 2002
> In Browsers and other code panes, the action of the menus differs between 
> the text panes and the list panes.
> In the list panes, an ESC key will toggle the menu, and you can use 
> keystrokes to do menu selection.
> However, in the code panes, each ESC will bring up a new menu, and you 
> can't use keystroke selection in the menus.
> This change set makes the code pane menus work like the list pane menus."
>
> 4836transformBoundsFix-nk -- Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> -- 12 April 
> 2002
> TransformMorphs reported their submorphBounds in local coordinates, 
> rather than global coordinates. This can affect layout and bounds 
> calculations for other morphs.
> This change set fixes that problem."
>
> 4837viewBoxFix-nk -- Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> -- 15 April 2002
> If you try to make a PasteUpMorph the model in a SystemWindow, 
> PasteUpMorph>>viewBox: assumes incorrectly that the PUM is a World.
> That is, this should work:
> | p w |
> p _ PasteUpMorph new extent: 100 at 100.
> w _ (SystemWindow labelled: 'whoops!') model: p.
> w addMorph: p frame: (0 at 0 extent: 1 at 1).
> w openInWorld.
> This change set adds some conditionals in PasteUpMorph>>viewBox: to check 
> if the PUM is indeed a World.
>
> 4838weakSetCollectFix-nk -- Ned Konz -- 11 March 2002
> The output of collect: when applied to a WeakSet
> includes flag objects that shouldn't appear in the output.
> That is, the following code:
> w _ WeakSet withAll: { 1 . 2 . 3 }.
> w collect: [ :ea | ea ]
> answers a Set(1 2 an Object 3)
> This change set fixes this behavior.
> It answers a WeakSet, which I think is appropriate, but am not sure.
>
> 4839zipFixes-nk -- Ned Konz -- 27 March 2002
> Miscellaneous fixes and enhancements for Zip support
> and the ArchiveViewer:
> * Added support for prepended data (before the first member).
>   This could be used (for instance) to make self-extracting archives.
> * Removed ArchiveViewer from Useful category in Objects tool
>   (it is already in Tools)
> * Removed explicit font name from button creation
>   in ArchiveViewer (should work better in systems without Comic 9)
> * Fixed bug in rewindData that would prevent writing out a zip that
>   was recently read in.
> * Fixed bug where directories couldn't be renamed
>   in ArchiveViewer.
> * Added window menu items to inspect the archive and to
>   write it with a prepended file.
>
> 4842themes-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 21 April 2002
> Adds a simple mechanism that allows groups of preference-settings and 
> other system configuration parameters to be installed all at once, via a 
> 'choose theme...' button now added to the Squeak flap; the command is 
> also accessible from the appearance menu and on the help page of the 
> Preferences panel.
> A few themes are supplied, including:
> * outOfTheBox - all of the out-of-the-box 3.2 settings of preferences.  
> Features the 'alternative' window and scroll-bar looks; scrollbars are 
> NOT flop-out, and are positioned on the right.
> * smalltalk80 - as similar to the look and feel of smalltalk-80 as we can 
> get; caution: Many features are disabled!
> * brightSqueak - the classic Squeak look with our original candy-colored 
> windows, flop-out scrollbars,
> Themes can be added by simply implementing theme-defining methods in 
> category #themes of Preferences.  Two examples (magdeburg and paloAlto) 
> of personalized themes are provided as examples."
>
> 4843prefsThreeTwo-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 21 April 2002
> Preferences adjustments for 3.2"
>
> 4844slotInfoFix-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 22 April 2002
> A workaround for another annoying issue arising when trying to use 
> projects in a meanstream Squeak image that were created with the 
> now-very-ancient plug-in image"
>
> 4845Cls-Comments-MM -- Maarten Maartensz (and Ted Kaehler)  -- 24 April 
> 2002
> Much better class comments for Magnitudes and others."
>
> 4846iBeamInNullText-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 25 April 2002
> Draws an I-beam when an empty Text object has keyboard focus.
> Try to get the Objects tool, when switched into Find mode, to show the 
> i-beam immediately.
> Also, adds an optimization so that when there is an empty selecton in the 
> search pane of the Objects tool, it doesn't take so long to conclude that 
> there are no matches."
>
> 4847zipRewindFix-nk -- Ned Konz -- 28 April 2002
> This fixes a bug in the Zip support and the Archive Viewer where it would 
> extract short files from a compressed archive."
>
> 4849eToyTranslations --  -- 28 April 2002
>
> 4851menuFixes-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 1 May 2002
> Fixes for three menu bugs, the first two of which were reported by Ken 
> Causey.
> (1)  A mouse-click on open desktop within 14 pixels of the bottom of the 
> screen would pop up the world menu but then immediately dismiss it; this 
> bug had arrived in update 4598OccamsMenuKeys-hg-di, in December 2001.
> (2)  A mouse-click that brought up a menu, when initiated near the right 
> edge of the screen, would often result in the unexpected and unwanted 
> choosing and execution of a menu item, rather than simply leaving the 
> menu up adjacent to the cursor; the cause was that the positioning was 
> figured out before self-updating items in the menu had been given a 
> chance to get updated.  This was a paricularly nasty bug because if you 
> clicked on the desktop near the right edge of the screen, you might get a 
> completely unintended snapshot taken, etc.  This bug, incidentalliy, 
> dates back to the event reworking of autumn 2000.
> (3)  The menu title for the halo menu of a flap tap was still appearing 
> in the window-title font."
>
> 4852collabTweaks-raa -- Bob Arning -- 1 May 2002
> requests from the kids via Michael Rueger:
> - when things arrive in the communication panel (ears thingy), the
> choice between grab and delte is rather confusing and not really needed.
> Just grabbing and thereby removing it from the panel would be the more
> intuitive choice (confirmed by the kids).
> - chat
> the replies text morph has a redraw problem. The incoming text is only
> fully shown after the cursor is moved into that view
> from Kim:
> - a new on/off icon for the EToyListenerMorph
> ===
> 	EToyListenerMorph addToGlobalIncomingQueue: {
> 		((Form extent: 32 at 32 depth: 16) fillColor: Color red).
> 		RectangleMorph new.
> 		'bob'.
> 		'1.2.3.4'
> 	}.
> ===
>
> 4855ClassBuilderFix3-2 -- Nathanael Schärli & Andreas Raab -- 23 April 
> 2002
> Fixes various problems in both ClassBuilder and the handling of obsolete 
> subclasses"
>
> 4856slidePref-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 2 May 2002
> Adds a preference, slideDismissalsToTrash, which governs whether the 
> slide-to-trash animation should be used when a halo-dismissal results in 
> something being put in the trash.  Formerly this behavior had been 
> coupled with the #preserveTrash preference, but that raised a series of 
> complaints from an unhappy user who wanted trash preserved but didn't 
> want the animation."
> Preferences addPreference: #slideDismissalsToTrash categories: #(morphic)
>  default: true balloonHelp: 'If true, when a dismissal via the X-handle 
> in a halo will result in the object being put into the Trash, the object 
> will be animated to slide to a trash-can on the desktop.'.
>
> 4857browseThemes-sw -- Scott Wallace -- 2 May 2002
> Adds an item to the themes menu allowing the existing set of 
> theme-defining methods to be browsed.
> Makes a couple of adjustments to out-of-box 3.2 preferences.
> Adds a #westwood theme, which attempts to approximate the settings found 
> in a current-vintage plug-in image as used by kids in LA schools this 
> school year"
>
>




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