[squeak-dev] Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] Curved Space Explorer for Squeak

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Sun Aug 4 16:12:35 UTC 2013


Frank, IIRC there's a null-character stuck in the source code of that
method.  I brought this to Nikolay's attention last March but it may
not have gotten fixed.  If you delete that character,at least you'll
at least be able to step through that method...

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 July 2013 00:32, Nikolay Suslov <nsuslovi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Let me introduce the Curved Space Explorer for Squeak project
>> (https://vimeo.com/71173349),  known as CCSE by Krestianstvo SDK.
>> It is a Smalltalk port version of Curved Spaces, originally developed by
>> Jeff Weeks (geometrygames.org) in C language.
>> This Squeak version is derived from Krestianstvo SDK project's version,
>> where Curved Space Explorer is collaborative in it's nature and available
>> mainly for distributed computation.
>> The aim of this project is to make Curved Space Explorer in Smalltalk being
>> available for the large Smalltalk audience and mainstream Squeak
>> distribution, so that anybody interested could work with it.
>> The source code is available here: http://sdk.krestianstvo.org/sdk/ccse.html
>> Preinstalled Squeak image is here:
>> http://krestianstvo.org/sdk/Squeak4.4-12327-ccse.zip
>> For manual install use following instructions:
>> (is tested and working with Squeak 4.4 and Squeak 4.5 alpha)
>>
>> "1. Load FFI"
>>
>> (Installer repository: 'http://source.squeak.org/FFI')
>>  install: 'FFI-Pools';
>>  install: 'FFI-Kernel';
>> install: 'FFI-Tests'.
>>
>> "2. Load 3DTransform "
>>
>> (Installer repository: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/CroquetGL')
>>     install: '3DTransform'.
>>
>> "3. Load OpentGL and CCSE"
>>
>> (Installer repository: 'http://sdk.krestianstvo.org/sdk/ccse')
>>     install: 'OpenGL-Pools';
>>     install: 'OpenGL-Core';
>>     install: 'OpenGL-NameManager';
>>     install: 'CCSpaceExplorer'.
>>
>> "4. Run sample application"
>>
>> CCSEMorphRender runApp
>
> Cool! Thanks!
>
> I just tried it on my work machine (Ubuntu 13) and ran into an odd
> problem. I'm getting told "MessageNotUnderstood: BlockContext>>". Note
> that it is indeed complaining that BlockContext doesn't understand #''
> !
>
> The error appears immediately after this runs:
>
> OGLUnixX11LE >> openGLLibraryName
>     ^Smalltalk osVersion = 'linux'
>         ifTrue: ['libGL.so.1']
>         ifFalse: ['GL']
>
> Now on my machine Smalltalk osVersion = 'linux-gnu', but I get the
> weird error even when I change the conditional to `Smalltalk osVersion
> beginsWith: 'linux'`. I find it utterly bizarre that something should
> try to send #'' to anything after this call. Clearly something's gone
> wrong, and it's almost certainly not the CCSE. Any ideas?
>
> frank
>


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