Thanks. I have the Cocoa version of the Squeak VM. Is that the one you 
were referring to? Also would the GTK+ support be within the main Squeak 
window or would it allow for the creation of essentially regular desktop 
software?

Avi Bryant wrote:

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> On Feb 9, 2004, at 10:34 AM, Mike Flippin wrote:
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>> Hi, I'm a Computer Science major having to prepare a presentation on 
>> Smalltalk for a programming language class and need a Smalltalk VM 
>> for that. I haven't been able to find any documentation on Squeak 
>> that shows how to use it to make desktop software that uses native 
>> GUI toolkits like QT, GTK+, Carbon and MFC.
>>
>> Is this possible? I found a listing for GTK+ bindings on the GTK 
>> website. GNU Smalltalk 2.1 doesn't compile on either Fedora Linux or 
>> MacOS X so I'm SOL there. So that left me with Squeak. Is there any 
>> place I can find how to use native toolkits?
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> It's not currently possible, and isn't very high on the priority list 
> for most of us.  There are a few projects just starting up to try to 
> provide GTK+ and Cocoa support, but nothing you could use.
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> The best native-widget Smalltalk I know of is Dolphin, which is 
> Windows-only and quite reasonably priced.
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