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Dennis smith-4

VW7.7.1 Store Load not showing progress??

We have a small set of classes which bootstraps a new development image
from Store.

It basically does
aBundle loadSrc
for two bundles.

It takes about an hour.

In VW7.7 this showed a trace on top of the small window that is there
to start it all, so we knew
where things were.

In VW7.7.1 -- no trace. It loads. Once we have a full image built and
use Store after that we get
the progress trace?

The only two windows during bootstrap are the VisualLauncher and our
very small window,
is window size an issue??

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Runar Jordahl

Re: VW7.7.1 Store Load not showing progress??

Look at BlockClosure>>withStoreFeedbackOn: . This method allows
running a block, which will report Store load progress to the argument
of the method. The argument is a window.

Cincom changed this in 7.7.1 on purpose. We have the same behavior as
you do when loading our base image. It is not a problem for us.

We have tools which load new code. These tools have been enhanced to
use the new progress notification framework. Below is one example:

OurCodeLoaderApplication>>loadNewestCode
[self class topBundle loadNewest] withStoreFeedbackOn: self builder window.

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Alan Knight-2

Re: VW7.7.1 Store Load not showing progress??

In reply to this post by Dennis smith-4

Either your call is far enough down that you're below the method that
puts a progress indicator onto it, or else the progress indicator can't
figure out which window to attach to. I suspect the former, but
regardless, wrapping it in

[ ... ] withStoreFeedbackOn: VisualLauncher allInstances first builder
window.

will force it to give feedback on the launcher. There's probably a more
elegant way to get the launcher, but that works.

On 2011-03-07 9:28 PM, Dennis Smith wrote:

> We have a small set of classes which bootstraps a new development image
> from Store.
>
> It basically does
> aBundle loadSrc
> for two bundles.
>
> It takes about an hour.
>
> In VW7.7 this showed a trace on top of the small window that is there
> to start it all, so we knew
> where things were.
>
> In VW7.7.1 -- no trace. It loads. Once we have a full image built and
> use Store after that we get
> the progress trace?
>
> The only two windows during bootstrap are the VisualLauncher and our
> very small window,
> is window size an issue??
>

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Steven Kelly

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Just as a note on where we also ran into this: In 7.7.1, the Store Load progress will be missing like this if you start the load from a VW command-line parameter, rather than manually from the UI. Either keep it that way for a calmer build experience :), or wrap it like Alan said.

Steve

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