---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andreas Raab <andreas.raab@gmx.de> Date: Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:38 AM Subject: [Vm-dev] New Window VM (Closures, FT2Plugin, Large Cursors) To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org>, Squeak Virtual Machine Development Discussion <vm-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org> Folks - Since I was in VM building mode today I figured I might as well make a new Squeak VM. There is some interesting new stuff in it: * Closure support. This VM is based on VMMaker-dtl.116 meaning it includes support for the closure bytecodes. I have verified it by both running a Qwaq image on this VM and and a converted closure image on our Stack VM (this is useful since the Stack VM will die a horrible death something goes wrong in the process). It worked fine both ways which means that I no longer need to switch VMs (yay! ;-) * Experimental large cursor support. Try the following for fun (but don't do it in an image you care about):        cursor := Cursor extent: 128@128 depth: 32.        cursor offset: -64@-64.        cursor getCanvas                fillOval: cursor boundingBox color: (Color white alpha: 0.1);                frameOval: cursor boundingBox width: 4 color: Color red;                line: 62@64 to: 66@64 width: 1 color: Color blue;                line: 64@62 to: 64@66 width: 1 color: Color blue.        Cursor classPool at: #NormalCursor put: cursor. This changes your normal cursor to be a 128x128 pixels large, translucent cursor. * FT2Plugin. The build includes an external FT2Plugin that has no dependencies on extra DLLs. The downloads are in the usual places: http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.11.1-bin.zip http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.11.1-src.zip A closure image (for those interested): http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/Squeak-3.10.2-Closures.zip Note that I consider this an "alpha" version since there is a goodly bit of new and untested stuff in it. I'm in particular interested in finding people to test large cursor support and the FT2Plugin. Feedback is highly welcome. Cheers,  - Andreas -- Damien Cassou http://damiencassou.seasidehosting.st