[squeak-dev] - unable to open 'objects' morph from world menu - vmParameterAt:put: failure

H. Hirzel hannes.hirzel at gmail.com
Mon Apr 24 16:46:01 UTC 2017


Thank you for the answer, Levente. I think that will do.

Or I'll have a look at the archives in Edgar De Cleene's virtual

     "refugio de viejos programadores"

:-)

Coming back to the initial question of this thread.  I had no problem
choosing 'objects' the world menu in the latest update  (see
attachment)

--Hannes

On 4/24/17, Levente Uzonyi <leves at caesar.elte.hu> wrote:
> StarSqueak? Probably removed during the 3.9 "cleanup". You might find it
> on squeaksource.com if you're lucky. Else, you'll have to extract it from
> 3.8.
>
> Levente
>
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2017, H. Hirzel wrote:
>
>> Thanks, found it
>>
>>    SmalltalkImage vmParameterAt:put:
>>
>> !
>>
>> Another question: I do not have the classes like
>>
>> StarSqueakForestFire (empty reference here
>> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5538)
>>
>> in my most recent image
>>
>> Squeak6.0alpha  #17206
>>
>> I wonder where I can get them?
>>
>> Or put the question differently: Where are the StarSqueak examples?
>>
>> --Hannes
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/24/17, Chris Cunningham <cunningham.cb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The method itself (#vmParameterAt:put:) is very nicely documented.  The
>>> use
>>> is:
>>> 5 allocations between GCs (read-write; nil in Cog VMs)
>>> -cbc
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 8:59 AM, H. Hirzel <hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> What is / was
>>>>
>>>>      vmParamterAt: 5 put: xxxx
>>>>
>>>> used for?
>>>>
>>>> On 4/24/17, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>>> > We should probably just remove these lines.
>>>> >
>>>> > - Bert -
>>>> >
>>>> > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Chris Cunningham <
>>>> cunningham.cb at gmail.com>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> Hello,
>>>> >> I am using a new 64bit vm on Windows (Stack Spur Apr 12 2017) with a
>>>> >> mostly up to date trunk image (last update: #17172), and when trying
>>>> >> to
>>>> >> open the Objects morph (to pull in objects for Morphic), I get an
>>>> >> error
>>>> >> in
>>>> >> KedemaMorph:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> calcTurtlesCount
>>>> >>
>>>> >> turtleCount := 0.
>>>> >> turtlesDict do: [:a | turtleCount := turtleCount + a size].
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Smalltalk vmParameterAt: 5 put: ((turtleCount * 3) min: 16000 max:
>>>> 4000).
>>>> >> Smalltalk vmParameterAt: 6 put: ((turtleCount * 6) min: 32000 max:
>>>> 8000).
>>>> >>
>>>> >> The vmParamterAt: 5 put: xxxx (4000 in my case), gets a primitive
>>>> >> failure.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Thanks,
>>>> >> cbc
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>
>
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