Hi, Tony!

One can sail far and wide upon the seas of Squeak, but a course which strays 
beyond the edge of the map takes one where monsters be.  As you've guessed 
and others have confirmed and explained, any coding which reaches outside of 
Squeak had best know what it's grabbing for.

Gary


On Saturday 27 December 2003 12:51, Tony Balazs wrote:
>  Hi Gary,
>
>  Thank you so much for your quick response.  This is the answer I hoped
> for!
>
>  Without asking you to go into details, if, say, I wanted to reference a
> Word or Excel file in my application (e.g. clicking on a button opens a
> file chosen from a dropdown menu) would there be ways of doing this
> cross-platform?  I guess in this case the application would need to know
> which platform it was running on....
>
>  Tony.
>
>  Gary Fisher wrote:
>
> Hi, Tony!
>
> It's trivial perhaps, but very significant: Squeak is profoundly
> cross-platform, the beauty of the Virtual Machine concept.  Your
> application will neither know nor care whether it's running on a Mac, a PC,
> or any of the many other Squeak platforms.
>
> Happy Squeaking!
>
> Gary
>
> On Saturday 27 December 2003 08:00, Tony Balazs wrote:
>
>
> Hi everyone and Happy Holidays.
>
> I am new to Squeak and almost new to Smalltalk.  A quick question:
>
> I am about to start a new project using Squeak for Windows.  I need to
> know the following (hopefully trivial): once it's ready for
> distribution, will producing a version of the software to run on Apple
> Macintoshes be quite easy?  Can I do that from Windows or would it need
> to be done on a Mac?
>
> Thanks,
> Tony.