passing cmds up from the VM, was pending mac vm 3.2.4

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Thu Feb 14 06:42:11 UTC 2002


John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> To fix this the ability to send smalltalk commands upwards from the 
> VM to be executed might be an interesting idea. This would require 
> some agreement of how to setup the cmd in the VM and some smalltalk 
> changes to trigger the action.
One way I've done this in the past is to turn them into pseudo-events
and pass them in via the event queue. Usually this is simple, effective
and extensible. Worth checking out.

tim
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