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johnmci

Mac VM 5.3b1 ships

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.

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Phil B

Re: Mac VM 5.3b1 ships

John,

I noticed a minor cosmetic issue: a couple of times when I've launched
the new VM, the process name via Activity Monitor has shown up as
(null). When I quit and restart the VM, the process name displays as
expected.

Thanks,
Phil

On Jan 11, 2010, at 3:03 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.
>
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> John M. McIntosh <[hidden email]> Twitter:
> squeaker68882
> Corporate Smalltalk Consulting Ltd. http://
> www.smalltalkconsulting.com
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