Re: Quinto game in SBE

Likewise for OLPC.

- Bert -


On Sep 24, 2007, at 19:14 , Andreas Raab wrote:

> Hi David -
>
> If you can find a bit of time to assemble a set of patches which  
> will make those examples work, I'd be happy to fold them into the  
> system to make sure these examples work out of the box.
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
> David Corking wrote:
> > Bill Kerr wrote:
> > > Problems:
> > > 1) the final line of the SBECell initialize method:
> > > self turnOff
> > > triggers a MessageNotUnderstood error
> > > doesNotUnderstand: #turnOff
> > ...
> > > turns out that my problem was that I was using an old 3.8 image
> > >
> > > I learnt from the book how to file out and file in - as soon as I  
> > > tested my
> > > code in the 3.9 image it worked fine!
> > >
> > >  A friend sent me some other information from the bugs site  
> > > pointing out a
> > > bug in SimpleSwitchMorph in earlier versions:
> > >  http://bugs.squeak.org/print_bug_page.php?bug_id=3530
> > >
> > >  Summary:        0003530: SimpleSwitchMorph does not actually  
> > > implement
> > > switch functionality
> > In 2007,  many people's introduction to Squeak may be with an image
> > derived from 3.8 (*).  So I wonder if the book should not mention  
> > this
> > patch prominently at the start of the First Application chapter.
> > By the way, I probably learned a lot about Squeak by wrestling with
> > this for a while this weekend without access to internet or a 3.9
> > image :)
> > David
> > (*) such as Croquet SDK, OLPC Etoys ...