[Q] Setting the size of the OS host window

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Thu Feb 7 19:32:51 UTC 2002


Hannes Hirzel <hirzel at spw.unizh.ch> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> Hi
> 
> Is it possible to implement a message #extent: for the Display
> in a cross-platform way so that I can do something like
> 
> Display extent: 800 @ 600.
> 
> And get Squeak to resize it's host operating system window accordingly.
This is how I change window size on Acorn;
	Display setExtent: a at b depth: foo
and I trap the ioSetDisplay() routine to remake the Host OS window. I'm
sure it could be done for most other platforms, if it hasn't already.

tim
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