Multiple OS Windows for Squeak?

Peter William Lount peter at ActiveInfo.CA
Wed Apr 21 19:12:24 UTC 2004


Hi,

Bill wrote:
> I'm impressed - of course I'm the first to admit that I could easily be
missing something that would spoil the plan.  I'm still more concerned about
improving the feel of Morphic widgets than I am about having access to
native ones, but I'm pleased to see efforts in either direction.

Certainly improving Morphic widgets and having the various platform widgets
would be really really nice.

I'm actually not proposing anything to do with Native Widgets except for
opening additional os windows.

Having os windows enables existing and new Morphic applications to open
within multiple os windows fitting into the os's better. The use case (that
I'm interested in) is being able to open two or more "smalltalk projects"
each in it's own os window. I like multliple os windows that can overlap and
on very high resolution you can have them next to each other. The problem
with having one very large squeak os windows is that it covers most other os
application windows. Being able to move a squeak window into a different os
window would help solve this. It also enables people with two or more
displays to have utilize their screen valuable hardware screen space
effectively.

Cheers,

Peter
peter at smalltalk.org





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