Is there a way to render into an offscreen buffer where the actual host 
hardware's address is specified? I realize that at the level of 
implementing the hooks for the VM, this must be possible, but is it 
[easily] possible to redirect the memory space that Squeak renders to at 
runtime, rather than during creation of the VM?

I'm trying to understand how one might use the shared memory space of 
Second LIfe's media plugin to be the drawing region of a regular Squeak 
Smalltalk workspace/drawing window. Being able to have fully active 
Smalltalk-on-a-prim in SL would rock, especially if you could have a 
choice of whether to work directly with the in-world rendering or with 
the normal Squeak window's rendering.


The plugin can live in a separate process and communicate higher level 
events via sockets and share memory for rendering so its not necessary 
to have a fully standalone plugin. From the SL side, you could 
conceivably have a regular Squeak development environment with the added 
ability to use a specified hardware buffer instead/in addition to the 
regular Squeak window. Sorta like what seaside sorta does, but without 
the overhead of rendering via html.


Lawson