This is sooooooooooo cool!!!!

  - A.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tansel Ersavas [mailto:tansel at rase.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 9:57 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
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> Subject: Re: Squeak Window
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Bijan Parsia wrote:
> 
> > At 8:17 PM -0500 12/16/99, Ali Chamas wrote:
> >
> > >Regarding the Squeak application window (the OS window
> > >which Squeak is running in):
> > >
> > >*) Is there anyway to lock the extent of the window,
> > >so that the user cannot drag or re-size any of the
> > >borders?
> >
> > I think this requires a vm tweak.
> 
> If you don't want to touch the VM, you can use Anreas Raab's trick
> -browserWindow: HWND stuff. All you need to do is to write a 
> basic Windows
> program that sets up a window with an irregular region, and 
> you can open Squeak
> image in it. I have attached an executable that opens an 
> elliptic region and if
> you execute the line
> 
> squeak -browserWindow: <Hwnd displayed in the elliptic 
> window> <image name>
>                                         ^ space
> 
> in command line it should run your image in it.
> 
> You must convert the hex number in the elliptical window to 
> decimal to supply
> as a parameter. If you write a few more lines you can execute 
> the VM from this
> wrapper. You can also combine this with the VM to have an 
> option of opening an
> irregular window but then you have the problem of different 
> behaviors in
> different platforms.
> 
> If you need the source, I can put it up to my web site sometime.