Towards multi-head/multi-window VM
stephane ducasse
stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Sun Aug 26 20:18:48 UTC 2007
>>>>
>>>> I'm curious, is there any efforts towards making squeak VM be
>>>> independant from single main window and be able to start with
>>>> no/single/multiple desktops?
>>>
>>> Yes, the Ariethfa Ffenestri project. http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/
>>> 3862 also go to http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/608 and use the google
>>> search for 'ffenestri'.
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.smalltalkconsulting.com/experimental/Ffenestri has some of
>>> the code, the VM code is in the HostWndowPlugin.
>>>
>>
>> Aha, i see.. and to use it there's a Tweak, and Tweak is part of
>> Croquet.
>> Which raises another question: why main squeak VM still using archaic
>> architecture and don't move forward?
>
> You got that mixed up.
I was also confused then. I was not aware that the VM Ffenestri code
went to the
default VM.
So this may explain why nobody pushed the multiwindowing support so far.
> The VM *does* support multiple windows, as Tim was saying. For
> quite some time now, in fact. It's just that nobody needed them
> desperately enough to actually put work into using them. Not even
> Tweak (although indeed it is way simpler to adapt Tweak to multi-
> window than Morphic).
Stef
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> - Bert -
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