Hi, Thanks for the quick reply. I will try your suggestions here and in the other email over the weekend and let you know. I'm not that worried about blox if I can get the other browser working.
What do you normally use to edit your code? I'm finding the smalltalk-mode in Emacs to be a bit weird when it comes to handling indentation. Thomas Holger Freyther writes: >> On 21 Jan 2016, at 18:54, tho...@2worthingtons.net wrote: > > Hi! > >> I'm trying to use the current master branch (I've tried the 3.2.92 tag >> and the 3.2.5 tag as well). > > 3.2.92 and master are very close to each other. In fact the main reason > to wait for 3.3 is gst-browser (deadlocks and crashes) > > > >> GNU Smalltalk version 3.2.92-504a8b8 >> error: did not understand #blox >> MessageNotUnderstood(Exception)>>signal (ExcHandling.st:254) >> UndefinedObject(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #blox (SysExcept.st:1408) > > I have never used the blox UI and in fact it has been deprecated in 2009. > Looking at the code the question is what is parentView and why is it nil > at this point. > > View>>#parentView has the following comment: > "Return view's parentView. If view is a rootView, nil is returned" > > PList doesn't seem to have a parentView when >>#initialize is called. This > sounds like a fallout from my changes to >>#new changes I made in commit: > 4a224a329b5e63ab6ed432f437eb822e995ae64d. You could try a version before > that commit? > > > >> and sometimes (usually, in fact) it doesn't. However, when it does >> successfully boot up, the "new workspace" menu item and button do >> nothing, not even an error on stderr (this bug seems to be 5 years old, >> looking at the tracker and the mailing list). So the browser is >> basically useless for entering code. > > That is with 3.2.92? That is odd. What are the compiler flags you are > using to build the VM? If you are familiar with GDB it would be nice if > you could print the smalltalk stack at the time it is crashing. > > > >> At the moment installing the package onto my Ubuntu laptop produces much >> the same experience as I have described above with the exception that in >> that case gst-blox doesn't even exist as far as I can see and the >> browser never manages to start up. > > gst-browser still requires the libgtk2-dev headers to be installed or > symlinks in the plugin directort. > > I have used gst-browser mostly to browse and sometimes to debug. The known > issue for me is event-loop interaction and lock-ups (re-entering the event > loop while the event loop is dispatching gtk). > > We are on irc.freenode.net and if you would be interested to have a look I > am happy to guide you. > > kind regards > holger -- Sent with my mu4e _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list help-smalltalk@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
