[UI] [Slightly OT] Stability of Squeak

Gary Chambers gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com
Thu Nov 1 05:52:29 UTC 2007


Am AM replying... grrr.. eCompletion... my bane. Not sure why, but it has it
in for me... the only reason I don't use the dev image!.... it malign
influence apparently extends.... (sorry to the developer, good effort but
just doesn't play well, wold like nothing more than is working nicely).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Travis Kay
> Sent: 01 November 2007 5:37 AM
> To: Squeak's User Interface
> Subject: Re: [UI] [Slightly OT] Stability of Squeak
>
>
> Gary Chambers wrote:
> > Maybe down to the taskbar, whick works "synchronously" with
> window opening.
> > It is designed to delete itself when there is a problem in creating the
> > button for the task, to avoid such problems. There is, however, a
> > posiblility that the task button is created alright but with a potential
> > cascade effect in the associated window. I could, perhaps,
> force the taskbar
> > to close when a user-interrupt occurs... or, perhaps, have a
> recurse flag of
> > some sort.
> >
>
> Actually I found my issue, it was due to ECController (eCmopletion)
> references in ActionMaps of EventManager. Thanks for the tip though =)
>
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> >> [mailto:ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Travis Kay
> >> Sent: 01 November 2007 4:21 AM
> >> To: Squeak's User Interface
> >> Subject: Re: [UI] [Slightly OT] Stability of Squeak
> >>
> >>
> >> Gary,
> >>
> >> I've noticed a few debuggers that just wont die, but I'm still
> trying to
> >> track down the problem. Some of the semaphore / delay fixes have worked
> >> ok for me, others have seemed to hosed my image - admittedly I didn't
> >> review code or comments before just filing in the change sets.
> >>
> >> Travis
> >>
> >> Gary Chambers wrote:
> >>
> >>> I've not noticed a particular increase in image size, myself.
> >>>
> >> The semaphore
> >>
> >>> fixes posted in the dev-list have worked wonders for the
> >>>
> >> stability of our
> >>
> >>> client's software... AFAIK they'll be put into 3.10 but must be
> >>>
> >> installed
> >>
> >>> manualy for 3.9.
> >>>
> >>> There was a post somewhre in the ui list about unrecoverable
> >>>
> >> garbage. After
> >>
> >>> my last respone there has been no feeback, however.
> >>>
> >>> Regards, Gary,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> >>>> [mailto:ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of
> Bill Schwab
> >>>> Sent: 01 November 2007 2:31 AM
> >>>> To: ui at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> >>>> Subject: [UI] [Slightly OT] Stability of Squeak
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Gang,
> >>>>
> >>>> Has there been a resolution of the (sorry if I am suffering
> from memory
> >>>> corruption here) non-collectable garbage under Gary's enhancements?
> >>>> Another thing that disturbed me was the Croquet group(???)
> threatening
> >>>> to drop Squeak servers in favor of Java or similar.  There were some
> >>>> semaphore/delay/shared queue kinds of fixes.  Did they make it into
> >>>> Squeak?
> >>>>
> >>>> Please don't do my homework for me.  I am hoping someone here
> >>>>
> >> happens to
> >>
> >>>> remember the details.
> >>>>
> >>>> Bill
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D.
> >>>> University of Florida
> >>>> Department of Anesthesiology
> >>>> PO Box 100254
> >>>> Gainesville, FL 32610-0254
> >>>>
> >>>> Email: bschwab at anest.ufl.edu
> >>>> Tel: (352) 846-1285
> >>>> FAX: (352) 392-7029
> >>>>
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