-headless and blocking users from modifying things

Marcel Weiher marcel at metaobject.com
Mon Aug 26 17:00:54 UTC 2002


On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 04:33  Uhr, Rob Whitfield wrote:

> I have a server app that I run with the -headless command line option. 
> The problem is that on NT (at least) this results in teh squeak icon 
> being placed in the system tray.  If the user clicks the icon in the 
> system tray then squak expands, exposing the user to the whole squeak 
> UI.  Is there a way to lock users out from doing ANYTHING in the 
> squeak UI?  Password protection perhaps?
>
> If there is nothing straightforward that can be done I may need to 
> build headless VMs for my various platforms (NT, Mac OSX, Mac OS9).

CocoaSqueak can be built without the UI classes, resulting in a pure 
terminal-based app.

Marcel


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