On 8 December 2017 at 00:43, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote: >> >> >> On 7 Dec 2017, at 16:04, Steven Costiou <steven.cost...@kloum.io> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> noob question: i installed bloc and tried to run examples. >> >> It worked well on Fedora 27 but not on latest Debian 64 bits because the >> path of libcairo.so.2 was wrong. >> >> So i fixed it in the code, but when trying the bloc examples again the lib >> path is still wrong (in the debugger). >> >> >> >> Is there a way to reload the cairo lib or to reset it, so that the path >> would be right and it would find the lib ? > > I've also been frustrated by this, particularly as a supa-fresh-FFI-noob > before I understood what was happening. > I've found it a minor annoyance but sufficient to to close and reopen an > image to reset things, > but being able to do it live in-Image is really nice. > > On 7 December 2017 at 23:41, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> you need to reset FFI: >> >> FFIMethodRegistry resetAll. > > > That is really nice to know, but by the time I need it I will probably have > forgotten it, > and closing/reopening the Image will be faster than searching forum.world.st > or asking again the mail list. > Could we possibly have World > Tools > Reset FFI ? > > cheers -ben
Added https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20835/Add-World-Tools-Reset-FFI I should have a go at doing it, but I'm not sure which class is preferred to hang the menu pragma on, and also I'm still lagging for contributing to Pharo 7 (not really any technical issue now, but lack of time to practice the workflow) cheers -ben
