Irregularly shaped main window

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Feb 1 17:34:10 UTC 2000


It's doable on Unix as well.  So the big three are covered.  We just
need a primitive to specify where the shape bitmap is.

Lex


Duane Maxwell <dmaxwell at entrypoint.com> wrote:
> On a Mac, at least, you'd need to create a custom window definition
> function, or WDEF, which uses regions to define its shape and widget areas,
> then rebuild the VM to use it instead of the standard one.  You should be
> able to find the source of a simple WDEF floating around the Mac FTP sites,
> and it's not too hard from there.  I seriously doubt there's any way to do
> it directly from the Squeak world.
> 
> >Hello everyone,
> >
> >Can anyone tell me how I would go about creating an irregularly shaped main
> >Squeak window using a mask or a region definition? Would this require a VM
> >change or can it be done in Smalltalk code? I am trying to duplicate the
> >look and feel of an Internet assistant which we are developing. I think I
> >can accomplish just about everything else we are doing in Smalltalk code.
> >
> >This is just part of my effort to get people interested in Squeak for doing
> >multi-platform development.
> >
> >Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >
> >Jerome
> 
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