Squeak Project instances and "namespace"
Stephan B. Wessels
swessels at one.net
Wed May 21 11:20:30 UTC 2003
How hard would it be to have an instance of Project declare that it
OPTIONALLY requires it's own instance of the Virtual Machine?
The question may be worded wrong. Perhaps this had been addressed in
another form back when many Squeakers were actively discussing modules.
That was during a personally difficult time for me, and to keep up
with what was being discussed, so I offer that excuse if this has
already been covered.
Here is background for my question. I'm working on creation of yet
another Squeak Demo. And I decided that one objective would be to
quickly survey books on Squeak as well as make mention of the previous
volumes of SqueakNews. I originally thought to fire up old SqueakNews
images and make screen captures of the front pages to be used as
Project slides. The SqueakNews volumes were interesting because they
were "applications" written in Squeak about Squeak. The interesting
thing is you can take the old SqueakNews images, since they were built
on Squeak 3.x, and launch them using today's Squeak 3.5 VM. That works
perfectly. And the image that gets launched does some interesting
"application"-styled things to your Squeak environment. The halos are
turned off. You cannot Command-. (break) into the debugger. It
appears to be a completely controlled application.
Then I realized what I really wanted was for my Squeak demo to have a
Project morph that "launched" SqueakNews. Not a static slide. And
then when the quit/or exit door was selected, the Project would just
exit and take me back as a normal project does today.
This led me to conclude that having the ability of an instance of
Project have it's own namespace as an option, could be a great thing.
I still want most of my Project instances to share the morphs, classes
and other objects that exist in my image. But I can see the benefit of
possibly suspending my current environment while inside another project
as an option.
Is this a description of a difficult fantasy to accomplish? I'm not
sufficiently skilled in the low level stuff, at least in Squeak
(Smalltalk/V I can discuss), to know what's involved here.
Thanks for allowing me to ramble a bit,
- Steve
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