Thanks Torsten for reporting. I don't think this is a stopper for 1.0 at all.

We can release an older VM without that problem ?� Even more because the new version 4 doesn't bring anything new for Pharo. isn't it ?
The only problem where ImageSegment...Ok, I rather to have working this thing of closing the windows.

Can you tell us exactly the link of the previous vm that was working ? because we are doing the one-click now and we took the 4.

Then, for 1.1 open a ticket so that someone try to fix the problem with the version 4.

Cheers

Mariano

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de> wrote:
I think I've found something that should be fixed
before releasing 1.0 since it is meanwhile a major problem on Windows.

In "old" Squeak/Pharo you could close the native world window
using the "X" or hit ALT+F4 on Windows and the system
asked you if you really want to close the whole Smalltalk system
�using a native dialog which was provided by the VM.

With the new VM's (4.0.1 and 4.0.2 on Windows, see [1]) the native
"window close event" is now dispatched from the VM into
the image so it could be handled by Smalltalk code.
This is currently not done/handled in Pharo. Only in Squeak so far.

The recent Squeak trunk/release candidate already handles the
event within the image and now provides an in-image dialog
to ask the user to quit.

So: in Pharo now NOTHING happens when you try to close the window
using "X", you can only quit using the world menu - which is IMHO really
a show stopper since you cant close using "X" or ALT+F4 (the key combination to close any windows program).

Two possible options:

A) we should handle the event now in-image similar to Squeak
� by fixing and integration issue 2131 (see [2]), so not only
� for 1.1. but also for 1.0

B) release and distribute Pharo 1.0 with an old VM < 4.0


BTW:
You can get the old behavior on Windows by additionally using SHIFT, so
SHIFT + ALT + F4 allows to close.
But this is not very convinient, doesnt follow what the typical
Windows user expects and one has to know about it...

Bye
T.

[1] http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2010-March/004142.html
[2] http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=2131

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