[Question] VM-Gurus: Impossible to implant callback in Squeak-VM? Was: Re: [IDEA] Gtk2.0 and Squeak in the 'real boring world'

Markus Gaelli gaelli at emergent.de
Thu Jun 20 07:07:46 UTC 2002


> Ned Konz wrote:
> I don't know how easy that would be. You'd want to tie Gtk events
> (signals or whatever) to Squeak code (ideally); AFAIK there's no way
> to call back from a plugin into Squeak code.
>
> It's too bad, really; if you look at the Ruby bindings for Gtk, you'll
> see that the callback code is very small.
>
How hard would it be to change the current VM-Implementation(s?) to make
callback-services possible? Impossible? If Ruby can, why can't we?

It's a bit annoying, that squeak kind of always wants to be the chief in 
the ring.

Markus




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