[squeak-dev] How can the main window title in Squeak and Pharo be set?

Ron Teitelbaum ron at usmedrec.com
Fri Jan 11 02:07:34 UTC 2013


Hi Frank, 

This might be really dumb but I set the window title in the ini file.  

In Squeak.ini

WindowTitle=Terf.

Are you only trying to change the title while running?


All the best,

Ron Teitelbaum
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Frank Church
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 8:27 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list; A friendly place where any
> question about pharo is welcome
> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] How can the main window title in Squeak and
Pharo
> be set?
> 
> On 10 January 2013 18:56, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> > On 10.01.2013, at 10:39, Nicolas Cellier
<nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Bert,
> >> you can add the answer on SO too :)
> >>
> >> Nicolas
> >
> > Ok. Would be helpful if people linked to the Stack Overflow question if
they
> ask by email, too.
> >
> > - Bert -
> >
> >
> 
> I have tried them both in Squeak 4.3 but they don't work.
> 
> DisplayScreen hostWindowTitle: 'My Title'.  -> hostWindowTitle Unknown
> selector error.
> 
> HostWindowProxy basicNew primitiveWindowTitle: 1 string: 'My Title'
> squeakToUtf8 -> results in Unknown variable HostWindowProxy
> 
> In Pharo:
> 
> DisplayScreen hostWindowTitle: 'My Title'. -> no error message but no
effect.
> 
> HostWindowProxy basicNew primitiveWindowTitle: 1 string: 'My Title'
> squeakToUtf8 -> MNU: ByteString >> squeakToUtf8
> 
> When I remove the squeakToUtf8 at the end - ie:
> 
> HostWindowProxy basicNew primitiveWindowTitle: 1 string: 'My Title' ->
> Error: Unable to set title of Host Window
> 
> In fact that is the actual code in
> 
> primitiveWindowTitle: id string: titleString "Set the label of the title
bar of the
> window"
> 	<primitive: 'primitiveHostWindowTitle' module: 'HostWindowPlugin'>
> 	^self error: 'Unable to set title of Host Window'
> 
> HostWindowProxy basicNew primitiveWindowTitle: 1 string: 'My Title'
> 
> --
> Frank Church
> 
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