Hi Benoit,

On 7 April 2018 at 10:24, Alistair Grant <akgrant0710 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Benoit,
>
> On 7 April 2018 at 02:38, Benoit St-Jean via Squeak-dev
> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org> wrote:
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> So far, I've had :
>>
>> a) lots of "primitive failed", most of the time primitiveFileAtEnd
>> (FilePlugin)
>
> I've been able to reproduce this one.  I'll take a look and get back to you.

Can you send me steps to reproduce the problem?


Thanks,
Alistair




>> b) An error/warning message in the console,
>> "VirtualProtect(x,y,PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE): No error" and then nothing
>> happens, not even a prompt!
>> c) A "Manufactured file handle detected" error
>> d) An emergency error handler
>> e) An error saying "stdout is not open"
>> f) the VM terminating abruptly
>> g) The "Squeak Cog Spur Virtual Machine" unresponsive and totally frozen
>> (not even able to interrupt it!)
>>
>> I tried the original and some refactored (VERY simple snippets) examples I
>> could find on the net using :
>>
>> a) OSProcess
>> b) FileStream
>> c) StdioListener
>>
>> I have tried all tips & tricks :
>> a) load the "application code" from a script
>> b) doIt the code in a workspace and save the image
>> c) doIt some code with code to save the image first so the rest of the doIt
>> resumes at startup
>> d) I tried so many things I don't remember it all!!
>>
>> So far, nothing worked, not even was I once close !  Except for the example
>> with StdioListener : it shows the prompt but does nothing with the input...
>>
>> I'm using Squeak 5.1 32bit on Windows 10.
>>
>> My goal is to produce a headless application is a *simple* way.  It can be a
>> script or some code I execute in a workspace.  Then save the image (or
>> whatever step is required).
>>
>> When running the application, I don't want to have to specify a script to
>> start it up from the console.  Also, I don't want to open another command
>> window!  I want the app/image to run from the command window without any
>> artifact/trick the same way any other Windows utility/app would work.  I
>> also want the application to be interactive (it waits for input, does
>> something with the input, then shows result and presents me with a prompt
>> again).
>>
>> Once I get this to work, you can be sure I'll document it in detail !!!!
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> On Friday, April 6, 2018, 5:42:27 p.m. EDT, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 06-04-2018, at 11:10 AM, Alistair Grant <akgrant0710 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Benoit,
>>>
>>> On 6 April 2018 at 12:16, Benoit St-Jean via Squeak-dev
>>> <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org> wrote:
>>>> Is there any way I can start squeak from a command window, *headless*,
>>>> and
>>>> WITHOUT providing a script and have an interactive application^  Say, for
>>>> instance, my application waits for input and answers back the square of
>>>> the
>>>> number I type in?
>>>>
>>>> I've tried a gazillion examples I found and it just doesn't work at
>>>> all...
>>>>
>>>> I'm on Windows 10 if that helps.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/blob/Cog/image/buildspurtrunkreaderimage.sh
>>
>> Just for the record here for the future - this process
>> a) simply loads the CogTools-Listener (sub)package from the VMMaker
>> repository - which is a very small bit of code we could very sensibly
>> include in the default image
>> b) uses a simple initial script to create an image that will start up at the
>> beginning of an incantation that loops around the StdioListener. All you do
>> is start up the image saved after loading the Listener tools with the
>> StartReader.st - subsequent runs do not need that.
>>
>> Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be working quite right on my Pi at the
>> moment; I get a "squeak>" prompt but it doesn't seem to ever read any input.
>> I know it works in principle because I've used it plenty of times in the
>> past , but clearly I'm forgetting some important detail.
>>
>>
>> tim
>> --
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>>
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