[Newbie] Is squeak thread-safe ?

Dwight Hughes dwighth at ipa.net
Thu Dec 16 17:45:14 UTC 1999


Andreas Raab set up Squeak as an experimental ActiveX component earlier
this year -- you can see the results at
ftp://ftp.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/pub/Smalltalk/free/squeak/win32/plugin/ 

-- Dwight

Guillaume Rams wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>         I want to know if the squeak interpretor is thread-safe. Because I would
> like to compile it as an ActiveX that implements the IActiveScript interface
> (WIN32 platform specific, sorry). Such ActiveX are interpretors for
> scripting langages in IE or windows scripting host. Microsoft provides DLLs
> for JScript and VBScript, but they don't fit well with heavy-scripted pages
> on the client-side and someone has made a PERL implementation also. Using
> squeak would enable scripting like this I guess :
> <SCRIPT language="squeak">
>         (NodeList with: (document tags: "DIV")) do: [:t | t innerHTML:
> "<H1>Foobar</H1>"]
> </SCRIPT>
> 
> This raises a few questions :
>  - is the interpretor thread-safe ?
>  - can the image be stripped easily of all display-related stuff ?
>  - how do I wrap an external COM object into a squeak object ?
> 
> Guillaume Rams





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