Patch: Playing readonly sound files

Hi,

In the latest Etoys image, media files are being opened using oldFileNamed:
which opens in "write" mode. On Linux, users may not necessarily have write
permissions on media files (e.g. /usr/share/sounds/). This causes a MNU
dialog to popup. The attached patch uses readOnlyFileNamed: method for
opening files. With this change, Karl's drag/drop support for sound files
worked fine on Linux.

Can someone with an XO machine confirm if this patch works?

Regards .. Subbu

On Sep 27, 2007, at 13:18 , subbukk wrote:

Good catch.

> Can someone with an XO machine confirm if this patch works?

If it works fine under Linux it should work fine on the XO. Besides,  
you could run the complete XO operating system in emulation under Mac/
Linux/Windows. Stef just got that to work after a bit of discussion  
on the etoys list.

> Regards .. Subbu
> <FileOpenFixes.2.cs.gz>

I forwarded this to the etoys list.

We use the bug tracker at dev.laptop.org for the OLPC Etoys version,  
and the [hidden email] mailing list. So if you find more bugs /  
have fixes, please use one of those to make sure we don't overlook it.

Great to see some more people contributing! Though I am still  
surprised that no-one in the broader Squeak community is interested  
in making the Smalltalk tools work reasonably for OLPC. The core  
developers unfortunately have their plates full with making Etoys work.

- Bert -