Hi Andy,

That did the trick, thanks Andrew. The thread you mentioned is the
exact problem I was having.

Shouldn't that info be posted on http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5984
and on http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/696 and wherever else the font
thing is "documented"?

Incidentally, I thought my image (Damien's web dev image) was a 3.9,
but the version info from the VM Preferences menu says it's 3.7.1...?
Hmmm. Seems I still have much to learn about configuring my own image,
though I had thought that was what the here's-one-we-prepared-earlier
images were for. That shouldn't have to be as hard as it is, imho. It
would be great if there were a single authoritative source on such
things - not that this mailing list isn't a brilliant resource of
information, but the wiki seems a bit of a haphazardly collected bunch
of outdated as well as brand new information for insiders, while the
real info-gems are scattered about in various blogs. Sorry to go off
on a rant, guys, but I consider myself a good little googler, and I
find it frustrating when I have to spend more than a few minutes
researching something that should be trivial (like installing and
setting my own fonts in squeak), only to find the information outdated
and having my image freeze up on me, costing me another few hours of
trial and error, googling, etc... I don't mind fighting an uphill
battle when learning about a new technology, but I suppose I had
counted on the stuff that I know about (Smalltalk) being more of a
help to get into the stuff I want to learn about (Seaside), and
instead I spend entirely too much time wrestling with the stuff I know
next-to-nothing about (Squeak).

Hope that didn't come across as too negative, I do appreciate the help.

Cheers and merry Xmas,

Amos

On 12/20/07, Andrew Tween <amtween at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Amos,
>  If you are on Windows, then make sure that you are using the 3.9.2 Windows
> VM (or later).
> (to check this, click on the Mouse icon at the top left to bring up the
> system
> menu. Then choose VM Preferences>>Display Version Information)
>
>  (The bitbltplugin.dll will fail to work with older Win32 VMs. For more info
> see this thread...
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2007-May/116430.html
>  )
>
>  If you just want to get your image working again, then delete the
> BitBltPlugin.dll
>
>  Cheers,
>  Andy
>
>
>  ________________________________
>
>  > Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:02:35 +0900
> > From: aaamos at gmail.com
> > To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> > Subject: Frozen image
>
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > A couple of hours ago, I tried loading the FreeType Plus fonts via the
> > Package Browser into my web dev image. It took a while, so I did
> > something else and when I came back to take a look maybe 20 minutes
> > later, it was still sitting there with an unfinished progress bar. So
> > I figured it had hung itself and closed the image without saving (the
> > image was still responding).
> >
> > Now when I start the image again, I get a frozen window that won't
> > refresh (it displays whatever was behind it initially, or just black
> > when it's minimised and restored). If I hit the close button on the
> > window, Squeak happily asks me if I want to exit without saving, so
> > I'm assuming that part of it is still running.
> >
> > Is that a "common" problem? Is there any way I can break in and stop
> > whatever it's doing that freezes it up? I've tried Ctrl+B and Ctrl+Y
> > (common mappings in VisualWorks), but can't seem to do anything;
> > clicking any mouse button does nothing. There are quite a few things
> > I've worked on recently that I'd like to save the image if possible,
> > hopefully without having to manually go through the changes file. Any
> > hints how I can achieve that would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Amos
> >
>
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