Given my mental issues, I'm not sure when I'll get this done (yes I 
realize its trivial). However, Croquet/Cobalt on a prim will be really 
cool for a lot of reasons, IMHO and should be trivially doable. This is 
from an alpha VNC plugin for Second LIfe: 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aimeethyst/3860441800/

If someone with even a modicum of intellectual stamina would like to do 
this, I can pretty much guarantee it will make Croquet/Squeak better 
known. I'm hoping that I can do it, but my mental health state isn't at 
its best and I sincerely see this as  a project that will benefit both 
communities (Second Life and Squeak/Croquet/Cobalt) immensely, so anyone 
who wants to do it in their spare time will almost certainly get it done 
before I do.

Lawson :-/





Andreas Raab wrote:
> Lawson English wrote:
>> It would be very kool to have Squeak/Croquet able to render into SL 
>> the same way. Smalltalk on a prim...
>
> This is actually utterly trivial. What you are looking for is in the 
> SurfacePlugin. It allows to map external bitmaps into Squeak and to 
> draw directly into it. The B3D engine uses this to do mixed-mode 
> rendering in Direct3D; i.e., exposing the D3D rendering target to 
> drawing operations in Squeak.
>
> Example code for the surface plugin can be found here:
>
> http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak/trunk/platforms/Cross/plugins/ExampleSurfacePlugin/ 
>
>
> The example uses a malloc()ed region of memory; you can use shared mem 
> or whatever. Once you've created a form in this way all you need is to 
> just BitBlt right onto it, or even better, just set it as Squeak's 
> Display variable and all drawing will go onto it.
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>
>