[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Kernel-eem.1351.mcz

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 18:41:59 UTC 2020


Hi Tim,

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 11:28 AM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

>
>
> > On 2020-10-14, at 6:03 AM, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hmm... fresh paint stinks, right? So WindowEventPaint and
> WindowEventStinks were related then. :-D
>
> Exactly.
>
> It really was a little easter egg to see if anyone would ever read the
> code; when John & I originally wrote it we suspected that despite all the
> claims of "we must have host windows!" nobody would ever use it.
>
> In the slightly more serious end of this conversation, I would like to
> think that we can completely dump the 'main window' concept from the core
> VM code and only open a window when the image wants one. I can't see why we
> would want to save window dimensions in the image header rather than just
> having the image work it out at window-opening time.
>

Wouldn't we all.  But it ain't that trivial given the desire to maintain
backward compatibility in the VM.  See this thread:
http://forum.world.st/Installing-high-dpi-support-and-backwards-compatibility-of-the-VM-tc5123176.html

_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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