croquet reports from an os-x user

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Fri Nov 15 16:20:52 UTC 2002


Jerry Bell jdbell at fareselaw.com sent me this feedback on the os-x  
version, I don't have time right now to answer them because I'm working  
on getting an os-9 version VM for croquet to work, and I'm sure a few  
croquetters on the list can solve these problems.

I'll should also ask how will one handle updates for the croquet image  
to fix things within that image?

Jerry Bell:

So far I'm running the Tea Test Morph and things seem to be running  
well.

I have noticed that the frame rate display doesn't seem to be working,  
and the Stratification billboard (between the Pyramid and Zones  
billboards) in Andreas Raab's underwater world displays as trash under  
OS X (I'm comparing to a windows XP box- first time I've actually tried  
out the peer-to-peer stuff, it seems to work great!).

I can't directly compare frame rates but the Powerbook feels pretty  
snappy- perhaps a little slower than the 2Ghz PIV XP box, but not much-  
hopefully that will still be the case in the larger world.

Using modifier keys and the trackpad to move around feels a little odd-  
do you have any suggestions on getting an external 3-button mouse to  
work?

Pulling normal Squeak projects out into the world results in trash  
similar to the billboard in Andreas Raabs' water world.

I pulled out two projects on the OS X box and both were unreadable.   
They did not show up on the XP box either.  I pulled a project out on  
the XP box and the project did show up on both machines, however its  
display was also trashed on the OS X machine (ok on XP machine).  I was  
able to delete the XP-generated project from the OS X box, however when  
I deleted the two projects that I had generated on the OS X box (still  
from the OS X box since they didn't show up in the XP world) I received  
two walkbacks in the XP world- both were in TWindow>>doKillWindow and  
I'm sure it is because those projects never showed up in the XP world.   
I dismissed the walkbacks and everything continued working fine.

I tried running TeapotMorph openFullScreen - yikes, incredibally slow  
and laggy!  Kill Squeak, try again, this time opening it out of the new  
morph menu- ah, much nicer, it loads and runs pretty well when it's not  
full-screen.  I tried again at a lower res- turns out that full-screen  
at 720x480 runs well on my Powerbook.  Good enough for now!

BTW the TeapotMorph won't run on the XP machine in either full screen  
or windowed- approx. half or more Windows boxes I've tried have been  
unable to run one or both test worlds, even if they have decent  
graphics cards.

Nothing new to report except that the embedded projects are trashy in  
this world too- however, the embedded movie of the barn raising does  
look right and it will play etc.


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