Tansel,

This is excellent news and I am particularly happy to hear that you are also
working on a Mac version. It looks possible that I might be getting back
into that world sometime in the next few weeks unless we find someone with
more recent Mac experience work on our Mac side. If anyone out there knows
anyone looking for a Mac position in Santa Cruz, let me know.

This will make one less point that the C guys can say "Look, you can't even
do xxxx in Smalltalk".

I may take you up later on the offer of a pre-alpha depending on scheduling.
Right now we have a release close by so all my cycles are allocated.

Thanks for the quick response.

Jerome

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tansel Ersavas [mailto:tansel at rase.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 11:58 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: Irregularly shaped main window
>
>
> Jerome,
>
> I was planning to post a VM patch that enables this to be done in
> Windows environment In a couple of weeks. We have the Windows version
> working and although this can be handled in a plug-in I think it has to
> be on the main VM. The current version enables you to set up polygonal
> regions but our initial code that we did our tests without a VM patch
> (using Andreas's -browserWindow: hwnd switch) also had elliptical
> regions and support for subtraction of areas as well. It will take us
> another 15 days to add those to the current set of changes and make an
> official posting but if you need to experiment with it earlier email me
> privately and I'll send you the pre-alpha version. If you can't recreate
> a VM, I can send you the compiled VM as well. We are also working on the
> Mac version but we don't have Linux or Unix UI experts here to implement
> these and other platforms. Any takers?
>
> Cheers
>
> Tansel
>
> "Jerome E. Garcia" wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
>