[Vm-dev] Re: [OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm] 792705: Finish arg parsing work for embedded images on Win...

On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 10:10 AM Tim Rowledge tim@rowledge.org wrote:

Hmm. That seems backwards to me; surely the logic would be more useful if a specified image file over-rode the embedded image? Then simply starting the VM would run the embedded image but d-click on an image would run that image.

The use case is for securely distributing applications. So one *doesn't* want to allow a vm with an embedded image to run an arbitrary image. It *must* run the image embedded within it.

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Log Message:

Finish arg parsing work for embedded images on Windows. Don't attempt

to open

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argv[1] as an image if there is an embedded image.

tim

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