Re: Problems with Siren 7.5

> Hi all,
>
> now that Cincom has finally released 7.5, I immediately set on  
> installing Siren (Stephen's earlier suggestion to download the beta  
> version did not work for me, unfortunately).
> However, I am stuck at the very beginning. I did install all the VW  
> packages Siren requires, and then installed Siren itself from  
> Cincom repository. So far so good. (I left the job of compiling and  
> installing the C libs for another weekend...)
> Then I started with the workbook/tutorial and immediately got a  
> walkback on the very first Siren expression I tried to evaluate:
>
>  EventList randomExample: 20
>
> The culprit is
> Siren.SecondDuration>>+
>
> which tries to sum two values only one of which is a number.
> Specifically, the last line of the + method says:
>
> ifFalse: [self class new value: (value + aValue)]]
>
> and the variables are:
>
> value 0
> aValue (242 msec)   (aMSecDuration)
>
>
> I tried to replace
> ifFalse: [self class new value: (value + aValue)]]
>
> with:
>
> ifFalse: [self class new value: (value + aValue value)]]
>
> but I immediately got another walkback later on, so I thought I'd  
> stop and ask before embroiling myself any further with code I know  
> nothing about.
>
>
> Stefano
>
> P.S. I am on a G4 powerbook running 10.3.9 and using either the  
> MacOsX or MacOsX11 virtual machines.
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