About Updates [updates] 25 for 3.2gamma

Nathanae Scharli n.schaerli at gmx.net
Fri May 3 08:35:20 UTC 2002


Stef,

I had the same problem when I wanted to use the "Main Update Server".
However, the "European Update Server" worked fine for me.

Nathanael

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of stephane ducasse (home)
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 10:26 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: About Updates [updates] 25 for 3.2gamma
> 
> 
> 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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