OS Events [was: RE: Newbie Questions?]

Raab, Andreas Andreas.Raab at disney.com
Tue Apr 18 17:04:24 UTC 2000


David,

If all you really want is resize notification - how about the following?!

PasteUpMorph>>doOneCycle
	self interCyclePause: MinCycleLapse.
	DisplayScreen actualScreenSize = Display extent
		ifFalse:[self restoreDisplay].
	self doOneCycleNow.


  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pennell, David [mailto:dpennell at quallaby.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 9:01 AM
> To: 'squeak at cs.uiuc.edu'
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> Subject: RE: OS Events [was: RE: Newbie Questions?]
> 
> 
>  
> > On Tue 18 Apr, Pennell, David wrote:
> > 
> > > Whatever happened to your OS Events project?  Is this 
> > something that can
> > > piggyback on your pluggable VM?
> > It got pretty much ignored in the flow of other stuff. The 
> code needed
> > in the VM is pretty small and the image code is as complex as you
> > need/want depending on how thoroughly you want os events 
> > handled. I did
> > a trivial demo to catch the display resizing, but keypresses etc are
> > usually simple enough.
> > The big complication is the platform spread issue; how do we nicely
> > handle different platforms having totally different ideas 
> about events
> > outside the trivia of kbd/mouse presses?
> 
> I would be happy with support for display resize/kbd/mouse 
> events.  Heck,
> I would be happy with display resize support.  The only 
> events I've seen
> discussed on the list were display resize and keyboard presses.
> 
> -david
> 





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