My package will not save

Hi,

I made a small package with D5. Two of the classes are just regular
classes under Object. The other one is a  Shell presenter subclass.
When the Shell presenter subclass is in my package I cannot save it. I
get a message in a window that there is a problem and to see the
pre-req's for help in debugging.

I also made a view for the presenter.

Also when I try to save the Dolphin MVP package I get a similar
message.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Costas

> Any ideas?

Your's packages has cyclic prerequisites.

Open a "Package Browser" the select your package. Then select
"Prerequisites" tab.
With right button select "Show Status Icons" to know where is (are) the
cyclic prerequisite(s).

Regards
Bruno

Yes that helped to find the problem. I still don't understand why this
would cause a problem though.

I had a method in RichTextEdit which refrenced SmalltalkWorkspace as
in the example below.

RichTextEdit>>someMethod
| myVar |
"................ other code ...................."
        myVar:=SmalltalkWorkspace name.
".........other code here............."


This causes havoc with the whole package system. Why would this be?
And what is the workaround if I needed to do this?

Regards,

Costas


On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 21:09:40 -0300, "Bruno" <[hidden email]>
wrote:

> Yes that helped to find the problem. I still don't understand why this
> would cause a problem though.

If you have #someMethod (in yourPackage) and #someMethod is referenced by a
Dolphin method this cause a cyclic prerequisite. Package can NOT have cyclic
prerequisites and be saved. Because if you to install them later,
Which do you load first ?

Regards
Bruno

Yep, now I see whats going on. Thanks

Costas

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:10:15 -0300, "Bruno" <[hidden email]>
wrote: