Problems with OSProcess and vm-display-quartz

Lukas Renggli renggli at gmail.com
Thu Dec 8 09:56:17 UTC 2005


> Please use a recent version of OSProcess (4.0 or newer), as I added
> some fixes to the SUnit tests to make them behave better on a Mac.

Thanks for your answers, I am using OSProcess 3.5.

> I don't have a Mac, so I can't tell you what is required to
> implement control of the display on Quartz. You can see how
> it works on X11 by looking at the XDisplayControlPlugin.
>
> With the display running on X11, #forkSqueak works by having
> the child Squeak VM clean up all its references to the original
> X display connection, then open a new one as if it were a new
> image starting up. I'm sure a similar thing could be done with
> Quartz or other external display media.

Right now I am just running Squeak in X11, this works out of the box.
I will investigate further if I get too embarrassed having to start up
X11 all the time manually.

Thanks,
Lukas

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