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[Pharo-project] Ugly crashes in 09.09.3 - any ideas?
by Schwab,Wilhelm K Oct. 3, 2009

Oct. 3, 2009

I moved my code into 09.09.3 web, and it is crashing badly - the vm just dies, no indication (that I have found) as to why. Reminds me of working in C on 16 bit systems =:( By sneaking up on the crash, I see that it is quitting when asking ODBCConnection to connect. At one point, just inspecting a handle is enough to blow away the vm. Suggestions would be appreciated. I might set up a new image with just ODBC to try to reproduce it. Bill

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[Pharo-project] StrikeFont Accujen in Pharo
by Jochen Oct. 3, 2009

Oct. 3, 2009

Hallo, I'm porting a Squeak-Project to Pharo and I really need the "Accujen" StrikeFont with size 9. I know: those bitmap fonts look worse than the great FreeType fonts. But for my special case I need a very small/narrow but still readable font and there's nothing better than Accujen. So my question is, if it's possible to get the Accujen into Pharo. The StrikeFont class still exists but it seams like all fonts but DejaVu are missing now. Thanks for any help, if possible! Jochen

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[Pharo-project] Cap lock madness
by Schwab,Wilhelm K Oct. 3, 2009

Oct. 3, 2009

Hopefully somebody can point out something simple that will fix everything, but I'm to the point of declaring my move into 09.09.3 a failure. It was worth the effort because it forced me to clean up some packaging and revisit my load scripts. I figured out that when my image began to complain that the changes file was nearly too big, it was was doing so not because it was almost done loading my relatively modest amount of code, but it was because I had loaded it part way through many times, fixing bugs and accumulating LOTS of changes along the way - no problem. Since I cannot seem to copy and paste between 09.07.2 and 09.09.3 (they treat newlines differently), I thought to make yet another loader (my own) that will appear as a package with one class and a few methods to do my loading using whatever wins (installer, script loader, gofer, etc.) or a mix of them. Hopefully I can load that in either version, the code will look right, and the "script" will work. In working on the loader, my image appeared to go crazy. I was picking up things by halos when I had not intended to do so, the menus didn't look right; it was a mess. I wondered whether my new laptop had a busted/stuck control or alt key, and then noticed that the cap lock was on. Is there any reason the menus get weird when the cap lock is set? It seems like a nice way to drive off new users unless I'm missing the big picture somewhere. Bill

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Re: [Pharo-project] Deploying Seaside: A tutorial
by Miguel Enrique CobÃ¡ Martinez Oct. 2, 2009

Oct. 2, 2009

El miÃ©, 23-09-2009 a las 14:50 -0500, Miguel Enrique CobÃ¡ Martinez escribiÃ³: > I have to written a tutorial about deploying Seaside applications to > production servers. The tutorial uses a simple application to test a > setup with following components: > > Debian GNU/Linux > lighttpd > Magma server > Magma seasideHelper > Seaside 2.8 > PharoCore > > You can find the tutorial here: > > http://miguel.leugim.com.mx/index.php/2009/09/18/deploying-seaside-applicat… > http://miguel.leugim.com.mx/index.php/2009/09/22/deploying-seaside-install-… > http://miguel.leugim.com.mx/index.php/2009/09/22/deploying-seaside-prepare-… > http://miguel.leugim.com.mx/index.php/2009/09/22/deploying-seaside-populate… > http://miguel.leugim.com.mx/index.php/2009/09/22/deploying-seaside-configur… > > Hopefully this will add to the collective knowledge and will answer some > questions we all have had with respect to deploying Seaside. > There are a couple of post that I must write yet, the SeasideProxyTester > explanation and the load testing ones but you can have a fully > configured setup to try and adapt to your needs. > > Critics and comments are welcome. > > Cheers Have added some post on load testing using JMeter: http://miguel.leugim.com.mx/index.php/2009/10/01/deploying-seaside-load-tes… and using https for your application: http://miguel.leugim.com.mx/index.php/2009/10/02/deploying-seaside-adding-s… Cheers -- Miguel CobÃ¡ http://miguel.leugim.com.mx

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[Pharo-project] [update] #10466
by Marcus Denker Oct. 2, 2009

Oct. 2, 2009

10466 ----- Issue 1250: Unload Gofer -- Marcus Denker - http://marcusdenker.de PLEIAD Lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile

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[Pharo-project] What Collection is suitable for binary stream
by Andrey Larionov Oct. 2, 2009

Oct. 2, 2009

I'm a novice for Smalltalk. Can any body suggest proper collection for binary stream. I try ByteArray - it dosn't allow Characters, try ByteString - it not allow non literals. Which collection (or maybe pattern) should be used to write binary and character data?

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[Pharo-project] [update] #10465
by Marcus Denker Oct. 2, 2009

Oct. 2, 2009

10465 ----- Issue 1203: ThreadSafeTranscript(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #print: Issue 773: Comment and category in Utilities class>>addUpdateServer: Issue 1259: ProcessorScheduler>>selfEvaluating -- Marcus Denker - http://marcusdenker.de PLEIAD Lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile

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[Pharo-project] PositionableStream and uintXXX
by Andrey Larionov Oct. 2, 2009

Oct. 2, 2009

I'm try to launch FastCGI for Seaside. And there is a question. >From socket stream reads some byte sequence which wraped by ReadStream on which reading operations is continued. In some place called unit24 message, which sends bitShift: message. But from stream returned not an Integer but Character, which dosnt have an bitShift: method. What i'm missed? is there should be special calls to made stream binary?

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[Pharo-project] better error handling
by Mariano Martinez Peck Oct. 2, 2009

Oct. 2, 2009

Hi folks: First of all I have to say I am pretty sad that error handling hasn't a special place in the PBE. In my opinion having a good error handling is a MUST in every piece of code. We need to use exceptions. I didn't collaborate at all with PBE so I cannot say anything to no one :) I will try to write something for the next version if you want. But first... We need a better error handling. It is very common to have a hierarchy of exceptions or errors. You have subclasses of Error for example. And many times, you want to do or not to do or even do something different depending on the error you got. Now, the question is, how you do this in Squeak ??? This is the only (ugly) way I find to do it: [ a block of code where you do something that can singal different exceptions ] on: XXXErrror do: [ : ex | ex class = XXXError if True: [ 'I do what I need to do when I get the error XXX' ]. ex class = YYYError if True: [ 'I do what I need to do when I get the error YYY' ]. 'here I do in the rest of the cases' ] But, I would like to have something like this: [ a block of code where you do something that can singal different exceptions ] on: XXXError do: [ : ex | 'I do what I need to do when I get the error XXX' ] on: YYYError do: [ : ex | 'I do what I need to do when I get the error YYY' ] on: Error do: [ : ex | 'here I do in the rest of the cases' ] ensure: [ 'Here I do what I always need to do, no matter if there is an error or not' ] What do you think about this? does someone ever did something like this ? perhaps we can put this as part of 1.1 I listen opinions. Best, Mariano

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[Pharo-project] generic completion
by Tudor Girba Oct. 2, 2009

Oct. 2, 2009

Hi, I would need a generic completion mechanism that can be used for any text and that I can configure. I took a brief look at the EC model, but it looks like it is geared towards code. Does anyone have an example for using EC, or similar, to handle generic completion? Cheers, Doru -- www.tudorgirba.com "Problem solving should be concentrated on describing the problem in a way that is relevant for the solution."

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