On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 09:15:58PM -0800, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> On 10.01.2013, at 20:41, "Ron Teitelbaum" <ron at usmedrec.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > We change the window title on Windows and Mac so I looked it up.
> > 
> > We use:
> > 
> > Smalltalk windowLabel: 'Terf'
> > 
> > Doesn't seem to be in Squeak 4.3  but the included HostWindowPlugin appears
> > to support it.
> 
> This is yet another primitive, independent of HostWindowPlugin.
> 
> > I added Andreas' code to Squeak 4.3 and it worked on Windows.  It probably
> > works on Mac, doubt it works on Linux.
> 
> Works on Eliot's Mac VM, yes. Does it work in the Windows interpreter VM?
> 
> - Bert -

The alternative #primitiveSetWindowLabel is in the Cog branch only, and
therefore is not be present in any of the interpreter VMs.

I can't recall if this was ever discussed on the vm-dev list, but I know
that adding the primitive would require platform source changes for unix,
Windows, Mac, and RiscOS. Somebody would need to actively make that happen.
IMHO this is function is something better implemented in a plugin than
in the main interpreter anyway, so I would prefer to just use the primitive
that is already available in HostWindowPlugin.

Dave

> 
> > 
> > SmalltalkImage >> windowLabel: aString
> > 	"Set the window label for the main Squeak window"
> > 	^self primitiveWindowLabel: (aString ifNil:[''] ifNotNil:[aString
> > squeakToUtf8])
> > 
> > SmalltalkImage >> primitiveWindowLabel: aString
> > 	"Set the window label for the main Squeak window"
> > 	<primitive: 'primitiveSetWindowLabel'>
> > 	^nil
> > 
> > Hope that helps.
> > 
> > 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 Bert Freudenberg
> >> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 10:16 PM
> >> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> >> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] How can the main window title in Squeak and
> > Pharo
> >> be set?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On 10.01.2013, at 18:18, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> On 10-01-2013, at 6:07 PM, "Ron Teitelbaum" <ron at usmedrec.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> Hi Frank,
> >>>> 
> >>>> This might be really dumb but I set the window title in the ini file.
> >>> 
> >>> That's a way of doing it permanently; there's a similar option in the
> > RISC OS
> >> !run file.
> >> 
> >> There is no such option on the Mac or in the Unix VM.
> >> 
> >>> The HostWindow stuff depends on there being an actual HostWindowPlugin
> >> installed that functions. I know it's there for RISC OS. I know it's
> > likely there for
> >> Mac. I think it's there for Windows; I'm fairly sure it isn't for unix.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> For Unix (X11 specifically) there is just enough HostWindowPlugin stuff
> >> implemented to be able to change the title and size of the main window.
> > The
> >> multi-window stuff is there as stubs.
> >> 
> >> - Bert -
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> - Bert -
> 
>