Hi folks

I posted this to the beginners' list
OSX 10.6.7 Intel
Squeak 4.2 update #10977


running the example from the Pen class
Display restoreAfter:
[Pen new squareNib: 2; color: Color red; turn: 45;
        print: 'The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green
boat.' withFont: TextStyle defaultFont]

draws a patterned red line at the correct angle, but with no recognisable text.

same problem with the "Terse guide to squeak" Pen example.

I'm not sure where to look to see if this is a known problem... and if
there's a fix :?

and received the following reply from Jerome Peace (thanks!)

I tried your code in a 4.3 squeak and got your described results. Went
back to a 3.9 squeak and got the results expected with the printing
actually working. So I suspect there is a problem. I suspect it is not
known. I wonder if the problem is that color is now setting both
foreground and background.

I am not actively doing bug tracking in squeak right now. So hopefully
someone else will look to see what changed. Anyway you have found a
real bug. A good place to note it would be on the squeak-dev list and
the mantis bug tracker.
http://bugs.squeak.org/view_all_bug_page.php

So, I'm posting, as instructed!

cheers

Chris