Hi David,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Mitchell" <david.mitchell at gmail.com>
To: <ma.chris.m at gmail.com>; "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [ANN] FreeType Plus release -- Can't get to work on Win2k


> I'm on win2k pro and as soon as I install the DLLs from the Universe
> Browser, the Squeak screen goes black and the processor pegs 100%. If
> I press Ctrl+., the processor relents, but I don't get a refresh.
>
> Troubleshooting steps:
>
> Started with fresh Win32 download and Damien's squeak-web-118.image.
> Open Package Universe Browser.
> When the Preamble progress bar appears for Installing FreeType Plugins
> 0.13, Squeak stops responding. If I bring another window across it, it
> doesn't redraw the screen.
>
> At this point, I kill the Squeak process (after waiting several
> minutes). Looking in the Squeak directory, I see I have a package
> cache from the Universe Browser and these files copied in:
>
> BitBltPlugin.dll
> freetype6.dll
> ft2plugin.dll
> msvcr71.dll
> credits.txt
>
> Restarting any Squeak image at this point will show only a blank
> screen (tried several of mine and Squeak3.9-final-7067.image). So I
> think something isn't working at the VM level with the plugins.

Make sure that you are using the 3.9.2 Windows VM.
(to check this, click on the Mouse icon at the top left to bing up the system
menu. Then choose VM Preferences>>Display Version Information)

Cheers,
Andy

>
> I also recreated by trying again and only installing the Plugins. Same result.
>
> I also tried clearing out my fonts (fell back to Arial, Times New
> Roman, Courier, Symbol, and Wingdings, a la Windows 3.1; albeit with
> OpenType). Also tried rebooting (I am on Windows).
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
> , starting any squeak image (even if I copy back an image without
>
> On 5/1/07, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sheesh..  Total, utter, maximum Gorgeousity.  Thank you Andy, thank
> > you.  This really lurches the look of my image forward a big step.
> >
> > I spent the whole day looking at my fonts.  I never thought it would
> > happen, but I found something I like (a lot) better than Verdana for
> > the code font.  It's called "Tw Cen MT (OpenType)" which I guess is
> > "Twentieth Century".
> >
> > The Century fonts for other stuff are really gorgeous too.
> >
> > I got a new computer a couple of months of go with a high-res screen,
> > so I'm enjoying "big" (>= 14-point) fonts with "no hinting".  It's
> > high contrast and no jaggies at all.
> >
> > Thanks again!
> >   Chris
> >
> >
> > On 4/28/07, Andrew Tween <amtween at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > This is an official announcement that the FreeType Plus packages are now
> > > released.
> > >
> > > You can download from SqueakMap, or via the Package Universe within a
developer
> > > Squeak (squeak-dev) image.
> > >
> > > I will be documenting various aspects of this on the wiki; at present you
can
> > > view some screenshots, and read some preliminary descriptions, at
> > > http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5984
> > >
> > > It will work, to varying degrees, on Windows (98, 2000, XP, & Vista);
Linux
> > > (OpenSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.); and Mac OS X.
> > >
> > > It requires an FT2Plugin, which is shipped with the Mac VM, and is
available for
> > > Windows/Linux via the FreeType Plus (plugins installer) package.
> > >
> > > To enable sub-pixel anti-aliasing, the optional, and separate, FreeType
Plus
> > > (sub-pixel anti-aliasing) package must be installed.
> > > This requires a modified BitBltPlugin. This is currently available for
> > > Windows/Linux only, and is installed via the FreeType Plus (plugins
installer)
> > > package. If anybody wishes to attempt compile it for Macs, then please let
me
> > > know.
> > >
> > > Rather than try to describe everything, and anticipate every question in
> > > advance, I would rather wait to see how people get on with
installing/using it,
> > > and then update and improve the documentation accordingly. So, if you have
> > > problems, then please let me know; and if you have success then that would
be
> > > nice to hear about too :)
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Andy
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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