[Fwd: Re: Problem encountered when reading help files]

After watching the Bug/Fix screencast in the Mantis docs, I have gone ahead and submitted a fix for this issue, appending same to #7299 along with a note on the fix.

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Jerry

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Subject:	Re: Problem encountered when reading help files
Date:	Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:20:13 -0500
From:	Jerry Henderson [hidden email]
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Thanks. It's in Mantis now as issue 0007299.

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Jerry

Jerome Peace wrote:

[Newbies] Problem encountered when reading help files

Hi Jerry,
You have found a bug. One way or another.
The best thing to do is to plant a report on mantis.
Then to increase attention, write the mailing list and 
refer to the mantis report.

Yours in curiosity and service, --Jerome Peace

Here are the faq's

FAQ: Is this a known issue ? Where is the place to report bugs (or check if 
some have already been raised) ?

The best place for this info would be to start a
Mantis report. (You can get a mantis acct freely and
easily). 

A good place to start is:

http://bugs.squeak.org/my_view_page.php

Mantis provides a patient persistent way to focus on an issue.
I use it to accumulate data on a problem until a solution can be found.
It provides a place to alert the community to a problem; 
-accumulate facts and clues from the analysis;
-publish preposed solutions and get feedback;
-get solutions harvested and included into the main stream.

This FAQ is available at the Squeak wiki site.
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/Mantis%20FAQ%20and%20Tips
aka:
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5912
Mantis FAQ and Tips

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Jerry Henderson jerry.henderson at verizon.net 
Thu Feb 19 06:30:37 UTC 2009 


SequenceableCollection>>last answers the last element of the receiver,
and is implemented as: 
       ^ self at: self size.

It is an index error, when size is 0.

I assume this is a design choice, rather than a bug; but I'm too new to
know. Anyway, in 3.10.2, when I tried the menu path
"World::Help::Preferences::Help!", it threw the exception, apparently
because of an empty aHelpString. So I guess either
Preferences>>giveHelpWithPreferences should be checking for empty
stings, or the source data (the help strings) are improperly formatted.
I didn't know what else to do with my new found knowledge, so here I am.

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Jerry

    

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> From: Jerry Henderson <[hidden email]>
> Subject: [Newbies] [Fwd: Re: Problem encountered when reading help files]
>  
> After watching the Bug/Fix screencast in the Mantis docs, I
> have gone
> ahead and submitted a fix for this issue, appending same to
> #7299 along
> with a note on the fix.<br>

> Jerry
> -------

Hi Jerry,

Good work.

I also encourage you to add a sUnit test that fails before the patch
and passes after. It helps assure the harvesters that the patch works. It also provides an alert if at some future time someone breaks the patch. For examples look at other tests.
====
In a work space type the word test.
Select it and do a cmd-shift-w .
That will bring up all methods with test in them.
The ones that start with test... are usually sUnit tests.
Look at them and mimic one that is close.

Yours in curiosity and service, --Jerome Peace




     
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