[Cuis-dev] FYI. VectorGraphics freezes World. CuisBook procedure.

[Juan Vuletich]

Nice to know. WRT PluggableButtonMorph, I did several changes that move 
to BitBltCanvas all the BitBlt related code, having a cleaner interface 
to the Canvas, that can also be implemented by VectorGraphicsCanvas. If 
you need help updating your code, just tell.

Cheers,

On 7/20/2021 5:50 PM, Gerald Klix via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hi Juan,
>
> this solved most of my problems with Haver and the latest updates.
> My subclass of PlugableButtonMorph does not work any
> more, but this issue should be easy to find and fix.
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Gerald
>
>
> On 7/20/21 10:08 PM, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> On 7/18/2021 6:37 AM, Nicola Mingotti via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> I was reading the Cuis Book in the last flight and trying some stuff.
>>>
>>> I found this ugly situation where following chapter 7 procedure 
>>> "going vector"
>>> and doing :
>>> ----
>>> Feature require: 'VectorGraphics'
>>> ----
>>>
>>> Freezes the World. I tried in Mac and Linux. Recently downloaded 
>>> from Git.
>>> Same behavior.
>>>
>>> I can't fix it myself, but I let you know there is a problem.
>>>
>>> I humbly recommend you not to put 'experimental' procedures in the 
>>> beginner book.
>>> Or to mark them in red and say well to prepare a separate image 
>>> before running
>>> those lines ... or the beginner will get into troubles ;)
>>>
>>> I see in another image i have 'VectorGraphics' already loaded,
>>> probably it loaded as a dependency when I installed 'StyledText'.
>>> So, i deduce the prolbem is on loading 'VectorGraphics' alone.
>>>
>>> bye
>>> Nicola
>>
>> Hi Nicola,
>>
>> Most likely the problem you found was because when you pull the repo, 
>> you get the latest VectorGraphics.pck.st and a bunch of numbered 
>> updates. Some of those updates might be needed for the package to run 
>> properly, but they are not installed by default. So things could 
>> break if updates are not manually loaded before installing Vector 
>> Graphics. This is of course not good!
>>
>> Today I pushed several updates that:
>>
>> - Include new images. All updates up to now are pre loaded.
>> - Actually add the update number as a prerequisite to 
>> VectorGraphics.pck.st. If you try to load it without the required 
>> updates to the base image, it won't load and will give a hopefully 
>> useful error message. This will help in the future.
>>
>> We don't want people to find broken stuff like that. We try to be 
>> careful to avoid it as much as possible, and to fix things quickly 
>> when we break them. Thanks for reporting this. It really helps!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>


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