You should use RFB-ikp.8 for Squeak 4.3 and newer. Note that there's a 
space at the beginning of the file name (it's " RFB-ikp.8.mcz"), which 
confuses everyone and everything (people, MC, SqueakSource, etc).


Levente

On Mon, 2 Sep 2013, gettimothy wrote:

> Good Morning.
> 
>     On right monitor is Squeak4.5 on Cog.app-13.28.2749;
>         RFB-ikp.6 from SqueakSource
>         I use this as the VNCServer.
> 
>     On left monitor is Pharo2.o ;
>         RFB(MarianoMartinezPeck.16)
>         I use this as the VNCViewer.
> 
> My plan was to debug the squeak side using the pharo side as a reference.
> It worked like a charm for the
> 
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>       RFBSocket>>waitForSendDoneFor: timeout
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> 
> method where  a  copy-n-paste (thank you Mr. Peck (: ) enables me to start the server on Squeak and connect the VNC Viewer on the pharo side, and
> my squeak shows up (yay!)
> However, when I move the mouse over the viewer, the server crashes.
> 
> I tracked the problem down to here:
> 
> 
>
>       RFBSession>>endUpdate
>           ...
>            SmalltalkImage current vmParameterAt: 5 put: allocationCount.
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>     ...
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> 
> Commenting out the     
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>       SmalltalkImage current vmParameterAt: 5 put: allocationCount
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> line, enables the view to show up just fine; Howerver, Mouse events are not captured (buffered? killing the viewer, makes all the mouse events
> happen at once).
> 
> 
> I am not a VM guy (yet), so I was hoping a simple version check on the VritualMachine would do the trick, but then, I realized its something
> deeper.   
> 
> Here is the pharo version check.
> 
>
>       VirtualMachine version 'NBCoInterpreter NativeBoost-CogPlugin-EstebanLorenzano.18 uuid: a53445f9-c0c0-4015-97a3-be7db8d9ed6b Mar 13
>       2013
>       NBCogit NativeBoost-CogPlugin-EstebanLorenzano.18 uuid: a53445f9-c0c0-4015-97a3-be7db8d9ed6b Mar 13 2013
>       git://gitorious.org/cogvm/blessed.git Commit: 412abef33cbed05cf1d75329e451d71c0c6aa5a7 Date: 2013-03-13 17:48:50 +0100 By: Esteban
>       Lorenzano <estebanlm at gmail.com> Jenkins build #14535
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>   
> 
> Here is the Squeak version check:
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>       SmalltalkImage current vmVersion 'Croquet Closure Cog VM [CoInterpreter VMMaker.oscog-eem.302]'
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> Some observations (I have not been coding Smalltalk in over a year, and I am a bit of a newbie)
> 
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>     1. Squeak and Pharo are forked and I only see this sort of thing continuing.
>     2. Pharo factors VirtualMachine out of SmalltalkImage.
>     3. My idea to 'just install NativeBoost and see if that works'  seems silly
>     4. If Pharo is the 'tool for the job' for the project I need VNC for, then I can deal with that, its just that I like Squeak.
> 
> 
> At this point, I decided to ask for advice on the best way to approach this problem.
> 
> Please note, I have to do the Stripe work for squeak before I can revisit this.
> 
> thx in advance.
> 
> t.
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