[squeak-dev] International text input on X11

Yoshiki Ohshima Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org
Thu May 26 03:10:25 UTC 2016


Thanks for clarification.  I wasn't quite sure that the image in the
All in One was a Spur image, and also the error message (vers. 0) made
me think that the VM was properly built.

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:48 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:31:02AM -0700, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
>> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 8:20 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Yoshiki, I should mention that since my last email, I have also updated
>> > the SVN oscog branch so that the -compositionInput option will work on Cog
>> > and Spur. This means that we can apply the sqUnixX11.c patch for Cog and
>> > Spur also, and it should now work the same as for the interpreter VM. But
>> > I appreciate very much if you can first confirm that the patch works as
>> > you expect on interpreter VM. Then we can apply the update for Cog/Spur
>> > so that it can be used for Scratch on Raspberry Pi.
>>
>> In any case, I built an interpreter VM (of trunk, rev. 3730).  But I
>> get an error:
>>
>> This interpreter (vers. 0) cannot read image file (vers. 6521)
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>
> Image format 6521 is the 32-bit Spur image format used in Squeak 5.0.
> A Spur VM is required to run this image. Tim's latest Scratch work is
> updated to the 6521 Spur image format, so an interpreter VM can no longer
> be used to run these images.
>
> Squeak 4.6 and earlier will work with the interpreter VM, and I expect that
> an older Scratch image should work also, although I do not know exactly when
> Scratch moved to Spur 6521.
>
> Dave
>
>



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-- Yoshiki


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