thanks a lot. Stef On Jan 11, 2010, at 9:03 AM, John M McIntosh wrote:
> I've push the latest cocoa based 32/64bit macintel/powerpc VM 5.3b1 > > Various users pointed out that option-arrow key did not work, plus there was > a crash due to a draw locking issue. > > I spent a few hours looking into the complexity of keyboard management in > Cocoa and left-overs from NeXTStep. > I likely still have more hours of testing for extended keyboards but it > should now work for the enter/return, esc, delete, page up/down, and arrows > keys with > the various combinations of shift, function, control, option, and apple. > > The crash was related to a race condition in the os-x drawing logic. I > refactored it to a more simplistic code base shared between the iPhone and > OSX. > As a bonus the non-complex code is actually faster than the Carbon Drawing > logic found in the 3.x/4.x series of VMs, and much faster than the previous > complex/broken logic. > > Look for the folder experimental/64bits in the regular places found via > http://smalltalkconsulting.com/squeak.html > or > ftp://ftp.smalltalkconsulting.com/experimental/64bit/32bitImage*64bitVM/ > or > http://homepage.mac.com/johnmci/FileSharing.html click to experimental, > 64bits , 32bitImage*64bitVM > > file name: > Squeak 64-32 5.3b1.app.zip > > This *beta* VM runs in 32 or 64 bit mode on macIntel, and 32bit mode on > powerpc to support Squeak 32bit images. > Includes the freetype plugin, and requires os-x 10.5 or higher. > > -- > =========================================================================== > John M. McIntosh <[email protected]> Twitter: squeaker68882 > Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com > =========================================================================== > > > > > _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
