3.6 -> 3.8 woes

Bert Freudenberg bert at impara.de
Thu Nov 24 00:01:23 UTC 2005


Am 23.11.2005 um 23:14 schrieb Jim Rosenberg:

> I'm trying to convert from 3.6 to 3.8, and am having a bit of a  
> tough time. I have lots of projects with many many embedded morphs  
> that use Connectors. This is the "original" Connectors (Connectors  
> 1), and the SqueakMap package for Connectors that loads under 3.8  
> is Connectors 2. Unfortunately, in Connectors 2 some of the class  
> names changed, so my projects won't load. It should be feasible for  
> me to write a conversion script, but this is a piece of work, and I  
> haven't had the time to be able to do this. So, I've tried loading  
> Connectors 1 into 3.8. This seems to work, but some things break.  
> The Object Catalog now won't come up. More mysterious: In the  
> bottom pane of a System Browser, the scroll-bar refuses to work!  
> The slider fills the whole scroll-bar, and the arrow buttons don't  
> work. It's possible I hosed this up in some other way than loading  
> Connectors 1; this certainly isn't a problem on a virgin image. Is  
> there some simple maneuver I can use to get the scroll bar to work?
>
> I loaded a whole slew of my own hand-made strike-fonts that I need  
> to load my projects -- I don't know if that has anything to do with  
> it. Very strange -- and frustrating ...

IIRC the Connectors SAR contains many patches to the system and not  
only strictly Connectors-related stuff. That might be a part of the  
problem. Perhaps unzipping the SAR and installing only the necessary  
pieces by hand would work?

- Bert -




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