passing cmds up from the VM, was pending mac vm 3.2.4

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Thu Feb 14 07:06:16 UTC 2002


>John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> is claimed by the 
>authorities to have written:
>
>>  To fix this the ability to send smalltalk commands upwards from the
>>  VM to be executed might be an interesting idea. This would require
>>  some agreement of how to setup the cmd in the VM and some smalltalk
>>  changes to trigger the action.
>One way I've done this in the past is to turn them into pseudo-events
>and pass them in via the event queue. Usually this is simple, effective
>and extensible. Worth checking out.
>

Yes, that is what I'm proposing, but it seems comments on doing this 
are few. Must be the olympics.

Mmm I also need some clever way to pass things back down to the VM if 
one requires responses (not sure if we need this too?).
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