On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 08:34:47PM +0800, btc@openinworld.com wrote:
>
> Hi Ronie,  This is really exciting (and I've cross-posted to vm-dev). I
> guess this will help multi-monitor displays to have a window on each
> monitor?
>
> Ronie Salgado wrote:
> >Hello There,
> >
> >I have been working in OSWindow, which is a cross platform API for
> >dealing with native operating system windows. This API requires using
> >a custom VM and the library SDL2.
> >
> >With this API, even the main Pharo window is handled almost completely
> >in image side using NativeBoost.
> >
> >The only support required from the VM is a small periodical check in
> >the heartbeat about the presence of events. This no more than 10 lines
> >of code.
>
> Is there much you needed to change/delete from the existing VM window
> initialization.  Since the VM is shared with other Smalltalk platforms,
> how compatible would this be to maintain in parallel with the existing
> VM windows initialization?
> cheers -ben
>

What are the 10 lines of code required to provide the VM support?

Dave