to be deployed Epaati version is out!

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at vpri.org
Thu Apr 24 06:11:45 EDT 2008


>   I'm playing with Epaati-10 a bit.  Entering
> Grade2/Math/Unit4/IIM4_2_money identification.011.pr and coming back
> (the instance of Project did get collected, but the accompanying
> PasteUpMorph serving as its world along with all objects and players
> are lingering.  Now, I'm (again) looking at the issue so hopefully I
> get to something...

  Just a progress report, but the issue is basically around
#rootsIncludingPlayers not finding all classes, and the problem is
caused by a project that has scripts that reference to an object that
was trashed.  Namely,

  - You created object A and object B.
  - You wrote a script C at object B that refers to object A
    (This creates the uniclass for B).
  - You wrote a script D at object A that refers to object B.
    (This creates the uniclass for A).
  - You dismissed/trashed object B.
  - The project was saved.

What happens is that to keep the script D running and project working,
the system exports the object B into the saved project as well.  But
because it is trashed, it is not "in the world", but referenced from
the scripts.

  Epaati loads such a project, and upon exiting the project, it tries
to remove the project.  From #okToChangeSilently,
#rootsIncludingPlayers is called to find the uniclasses used in the
project.  But the logic only looks at the objects in the world, and
overlook the object B and the B's uniclass.

  Because B has a script that refers to A, pretty much everything in
the project is kept because the world is reachable through A's owner
chain.

  I still think Etoys/Smalltalk is almost suitable for what you are
doing, but loading and unloading a lot of project in a session wasn't
a typical use case.  In a sense Epaati is stretching it.  But it is
fixable fortunately.

  One thing we definitely should do is to make #rootsIncludingPlayers
better.  I can think of a few different ways.  One thing you should do
is revisit your projects and make sure that every object refered to
from the project to "live" in the project.
IIM4_2_money identification.011.pr, for example, has quite a few of such objects.

  To check these guys, open a workspace in a fresh epaati.image, and
evaluate:

    old := PasteUpMorph allInstances.

Then load IIM4_2_money identification.011.pr and come back.  In the
same workspace evaluate:

    new := PasteUpMorph allInstances.
    new := (new copyFrom: old size + 1 to: new size).
    new := new select: [:e | e knownName = 'page'].

and look at the submorphs of these pages bound to new.

-- Yoshiki



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