2009/7/24 Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de>:
> Torsten Bergmann wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for uploading! If your time permits it would be nice if
>> you can include a short section on how to catch cmd/. to provide
>> a login dialog (like the qwaq image has) or other tips you may
>> know from your product.
>
> That's easy: You install a custom user interrupt handler. In our case all it
> does is signaling a Tweak signal in the main UI and the UI takes that signal
> and offers the interrupt dialog. If you know the magic word (no it's not
> Sesame ;-) it allows you to do a couple of unusual things. The interrupt
> password itself is stored MD5-encoded in the image (so it's not easily
> sniffable).
>
Squeak is so powerful, that by adding a few lines of code, one can
make the login/password be validated using secure web services , and
only then permit you to go & do unusual things :)

> Another thing we do is install a global error handler (SystemErrorHandler
> default) that is used if no exception handler is active, and no per-process
> handler has been set. This allows handling errors in any processes anywhere.
>
> Both of these are available in Croquet btw; check out
> InputSensor>>installInterruptWatcher: and Process>>handleError: /
> UnhandledError>>defaultAction.
>


>> Another question: did you already integrate my suggestion for the version
>> ressource in the *.rc file of the VM build?
>
> *sheepishly* I keep forgetting that. Send me a makefile which uses it or
> something so that I am forced to set it properly ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>  - Andreas
>
>



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