Questions or comments

Brian Rice water@tscnet.com
Tue Mar 27 19:37:02 2001


Hello Pietro,

>I did not succeed in loading
>the Arrow code as Squeak project.
>Followed this procedure:
>
>1- downloaded http://www.tunes.org/~water/arrow/Arrows.pr
>as from the post titled "Proper Arrow code release".
>In spite of its name, this is actually a zip file which I have
>uncompressed in a temp dir

That's your problem right there... don't unzip it. .pr files are 
loaded directly into a running Squeak image. I certainly didn't Zip 
it on my end externally to Smalltalk.

>2- downloaded
>ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.1_alpha/ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/pub
>/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.1_alpha/Squeak3.1-win.zip
>which *should* contain everything for 3.1 version.
>Also expanded in another dir.
>3- Launched Squeak, selected "load project from file"
>and then the file Arrows.007.pr from the temp dir.
>4- After a while, obtained the following menu:
>
>Reading an instance of DependentsArray. Which modern
>class should it translate to? (...)
>
>As I do not know which class should it translate to -
>and actually I do not know almost anything about
>Squeak, neither will I until the Swiki will go up again -
>my Arrow experience stopped there. Where is my
>error?
>
>Pietro
>
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