Opening several images on Os X

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Thu Mar 4 03:27:20 UTC 2004


See
'man open'

not sure if you can say 'open Squeak.app'  and pass parms tho.


On Mar 3, 2004, at 10:17 AM, Blanchard, Todd wrote:

> Don't know about the carbon vm - I use the unix vm.  You can invoke it  
> from
> the command line.  There's info in the readme file but you basically  
> invoke
> the executable within the app wrapper directly which is usually  
> something
> like:
>
> /Applications/Squeak.app/Contents/MacOS/squeak [options...] [imagename
> [args...]]
>
> This will let you invoke as many instances as you like.
>
> http://www-sor.inria.fr/~piumarta/squeak/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Way [mailto:dway at mailcan.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 10:22 AM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: Opening several images on Os X
>
>
> Romain Robbes wrote:
>
>> I feel very chatty today ...
>>
>> Is there a way to open several images simultaneously on os X ?
>> When I attempt to do so, the second image file opens as a file
>> in the first image ...
>>
>> IIRC I use the Carbon VM, version 3.6.1 beta 5
>
>
> The only way I've been able to do it is by making a copy of the VM.
> Drag your first image on top of the first VM, and then drag your second
> image on top of the second VM.  I sometimes like to have 3 or 4 images
> running at once, so I have several copies of the VM lying around too.  
> :)
>
> It is a little bit wacky, and you don't need to do this on Windows for
> example.  If there's a simpler way, I'd be glad to hear about it.
>
> - Doug
>
>
>
>
>
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