[Vm-dev] VM porting help: ioShowDisplay always called with empty (all 0's) buffer

[John McIntosh]

This particular question could be answered by the documentation found on
https://isqueak.org/ioForceDisplayUpdate or
https://isqueak.org/displayioShowDisplay

However I discovered that isqueak.org was down due to a PHP change. So I
decided as one of the owners of that site to pull it back into my main
server infrastructure and update the software to more current versions,
along with supporting HTTPS.

I looked at turning user registration on, but in testing that feature
within no less than 5 minutes a spam bot registered and started creating
garbage pages!

Thus if anyone wants a user id/password please contact me directly.




On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Alex Franchuk <alex.franchuk at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Hey all,
>
> I'm in the process of porting Squeak to Plan9, but for some reason when
> ioShowDisplay is called, its buffer is all 0's, resulting in a black box to
> be drawn where the Squeak environment ought to be! The system is i386, and
> is not 100% POSIX, but has enough ANSI things to compile the VM with
> relatively little pain.
>
> Does anyone have advice about why this might happen, or some insight into
> where to look for the cause?
>
> I've tried to look at the Unix implementation where appropriate, but it
> seems I'm performing similar logic for most of the platform functions. Mind
> you, Unix and Plan9 are quite a bit different.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>



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