Multiple OS Windows for Squeak?

Peter William Lount peter at ActiveInfo.CA
Thu Apr 22 08:14:43 UTC 2004


Hi Dean,

Dean wrote:
>Could you list some example applications that use multiple simultaneous OS windows?  

Well, most applications open more than one window at various times. Yes often these are modal dialog boxes, but they should also be possible to open in an true os window from squeak which brings us to a system preference that could be added that would allow squeak windows to be opened in their own os window. Very cool.

In any of the serious desktop applications that I've every written or worked on as part of a team our applications have had multiple windows. It's just the normal way of it. It's just that Squeak is the anomoly in Smalltalk systems in that squeak only opens in one os window rather than opening each squeak window in it's own os window.

I really think the changes needed to make multiple os windows work are less challenging than most of us think. We really just need one or two people who know how to do it and it should only take a couple of days or less work since the code is already there but just needs reworking so that it's flexible.

Cheers,

Peter
 
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