On 04.09.2010, at 14:24, Rob Withers wrote:

> For some reason, I couldn't change the String.   Are they immutable now?

No, but still fixed-length. 

I meant not changing the string but replacing it with the right one. The debugger's inspector lists all temp vars. If you click on one, you see its value, which is the string . Just editing and accepting it there should change the variable.

>  I ended up doing a
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> self becomeForward: 'blah/blah%20blah.mcz'
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> all objects and message sending.  :-)

Yeah, if that's what it takes ;_

- Bert -

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> From: "Bert Freudenberg" <bert at freudenbergs.de>
> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 8:16 AM
> To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Installing VMMaker
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>> 
>> On 04.09.2010, at 10:44, Rob Withers wrote:
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>>> From: "Levente Uzonyi" <leves at elte.hu>
>>> Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 3:21 AM
>>> To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev]Re:[CryptographyTeam]Re:DigitalSignatureAlgorithm>>#initRandomNonInteractivelyisnotrandom> On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Rob Withers wrote:
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>>>>> How do you get over that issue?  I am stuck there now.
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>>>> No easy answer yet. I did it with the debugger. When you get the DNU, select "aResolvedReference version" and debug it. Use over/into/through till you get to HTTPSocket class >> #httpRequest:url:headers:content:response:, then step over the last assignment of rawUrl, and replace the double encoded string with a single encoded version with the inspector. Proceed. In the original debugger go back to MetacelloFetchingMCSpecLoader>>resolveDependencies:into: and restart it, then proceed.
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>>> How do I replace the double encoded string with a single encoded version?
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>> Using the inspector in the lower part of the debugger. Just change it. It's all just objects.
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>> That's the power of Smalltalk - for all its quirks, you can fix about anything on the fly if needed.
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>> - Bert -
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