[Newbies] Problems getting started with OpenGL in Squeak

[Ken G. Brown]

At 5:00 AM -0700 8/5/08, beginners-request at lists.squeakfoundation.org apparently wrote:
>Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:48:26 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Nick Ager <nick.ager at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Newbies] Problems getting started with OpenGL in Squeak
>To: beginners at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>Message-ID: <18820572.post at talk.nabble.com>
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> >> Not sure this will help in your case, but just for information, there are
>some plugin naming convention i>> ssues, the generated name does not always
>match the plugin name.
>
>>> internal plugin B3DEnginePlugin generated as Squeak3D
>
>the list produced by executing: "SmalltalkImage current listBuiltinModules"
>includes B3DAcceleratorPlugin. Could that be a synonym for "Squeak3D"? Where
>is the mapping between the names?
>
>Looking again at the Croquet image, when showing a 3D window,
>"SmalltalkImage current listLoadedModules" includes B3DAcceleratorPlugin and
>opengl32.dll
>
>Although I'm not sure this gets me closer to solving my problem...
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If you load VMMaker and look in the 'VMMaker' category (package?), you will see InterpreterPlugin class. The plugins are subclasses of this or  SmartSyntaxInterpreterPlugin.

The #InterpreterPlugin class has the moduleName instance variable. Some of the plugins have class methods that return their name eg. B3DAcceleratorPlugin has moduleName
	^'B3DAcceleratorPlugin'

Not exactly sure where the moduleName gets set in other plugins.

Maybe someone else can tell how this works in more detail.

Ken G. Brown