Using the lovely new FFI in Squeak 2.8a it's possible to open an 
external window to the main squeak window, ie. as in..

   void ShowWindow()
   {
     MessageBox( NULL, "HI", "HI", MB_OK );
   }

   Unfortunately doing this seems to starve the squeak window of messages.. 
this can be corrected by:

DWORD WINAPI MainThreadProc( LPVOID lpParameter )
{
	MessageBox( NULL, "HI", "HI", MB_OK );
	return 0;
}

void ShowMessage()
{
	HANDLE threadHandle;
	unsigned long threadID;

	threadHandle=
		CreateThread( NULL, 0, MainThreadProc,
			0, 0, &threadID );
}

   But this is somewhat hacky, anyone know of any other way of getting 
around this problem?

- Factory (.sig under reconstruction)