<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div>I disagree in general with extend vm complexity to add things that can perfectly work in smalltalk or using a FFI package...<div>is OSProcess is not good enough, then lets make it work, but I don't see the necessity for vm support. </div><div><br></div><div>problem is that now you have to install OSProcess and/or FFI to have the functionality but in the future, at least for pharo, that will not be the case in an out-of-the-box image :)</div><div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>Esteban</div><div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 19, 2012, at 10:18 AM, Guillermo Polito wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Torsten Bergmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:astares@gmx.de" target="_blank">astares@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
In the days of web based applications and Smalltalk web<br>
frameworks etc. it is often very usefull to open a browser/URL<br>
from within Smalltalk.<br>
Currently one has to load FFI and ExternalWebBrowser<br>
package.<br>
<br>
Why not add support into the VM for that. This would<br>
allow us:<br>
<br>
- provide a link to the homepage of Squeak and Pharo<br>
in the about box so people can easy access it<br>
right from the image<br>
<br>
- to give Seaside/Pier/Iliad/Aida served images<br>
a button that opens the browser to the served<br>
sites<br>
<br>
- server an html based "Help system" from the image<br>
and by choosing "Help" from the menu open it<br>
<br>
- ...<br>
<br>
On Windows it is just a ShellExecute API call - dont<br>
know about the other platforms. Is it possible that<br>
VM developers agree on a common protocol and provide<br>
it in the next VM release cycle?<br>
<br>
Any comments?<br></blockquote><div><br>The thing is... why adding it in the vm and not in the image directly via FFI? I mean, you already have support in the vm for that -> FFI plugin (and Native boost in NBCog). And it's abstract enough to do the job...<br>
<br>I think that in the path to 2.0 there is the idea to have
NativeBoost/FFI in the core distribution. It's just that there are
plenty of things to do before :P.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Thx<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">T.<br>
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