[squeak-dev] Re: problems with Windows 7 beta and Squeak-Etoys

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at vpri.org
Fri Mar 20 17:30:56 UTC 2009


At Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:03:28 +0100,
Rita Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
> > So, Rita, here is what to do:
> >
> >   - Uninstall Etoys.
> >   - Install Etoys via EtoysInstaller.exe.
> >   - When the installer asks you to specify the directory to install,
> >     specify something other location and make it not under C:\Program Files.
> >   - Launch Etoys and see if it crashes.  This time, the crash.dmp will
> >     be there.
> >
> >   
> Thanks Yoshiki! I did that and then tried to crash the VM again, but did 
> not succeed yet...

  Oh ok, so it wasn't reliably crashing before.

> One thing I changed is that I copied the etoys.image file into the same 
> directory like the etoys.exe, because before I did that, when running 
> etoys.exe, I got the file browser to select an .image every time.

  Right.  The application icon in start menu has command line option
so that it can find the image, but if you double click the .exe, it
cannot.  I thought we could have ImageName spec in the .ini file but
it was not folded in.

> I will go on next week and try if I can reproduce the crash.

  Good luck!

-- Yoshiki



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