On 8/28/07, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>
> It would add considerably to the complexity of the X11 VM - Xlib does
> not provide a dialog box call, whereas Win and Mac libraries do.
>
> You could try to write it using Xlib calls, which would involve
> laying out text, drawing a button, having another event loop etc. No
> fun, besides you would get complains that it does not follow the
> user's desktop theme or native language. Or you could make the VM
> depend on GTK or KDE which we have avoided so far.
>
> - Bert -

Couldn't you just use a dialog that already exists in Squeak?  Like
the one that pops up with you try to change a method that's been
modified since you started editing?