Hello,

I'm completly new to Sqeak and Smalltalk, though i have several years of
programming experience in java and php and am able to learn new programming
languages relative quickly.
I would like to know if in ANYWAY the following is realizable within Squeak:

I want to build an webbased, multiuser interactive 3D-Room / 3D-Metapher
which can integrate external applications like mail-clients, browsers,
games.

The most important would be the integration of external applications in the
3D-Room (you can think of a "picture-container" which contains the external
application, and is moveable and resizeable within the Room (along the
walls). The User should have the possibilities of translation and rotaion to
(with all that stuff like collision detection, too) 
The Integration of the Desktop is important, too. The user should be able to
Drag-and-Drop certain Items into the 3D-Room and than something should
happen (e.g. an e-mail progamm pops-up with the file as attachment).

I've started to build the 3D-Room in Macromedia Director Mx 2004 and lingo.
It was interactive, multiuser based - you could view a video within an
picture-container as well (it was a dynamic texture of an quicktime video).
The decisive drawback was, that - because it was a webbased shockwave movie
- there was no way to access the system of the user (shockwave movies run in
an "safe-mode" comparable to java's sandbox).

Though is there anyway to do this in squeak (for one single person), without
the cost of huge development time (not like sun's porject looking glass)?

I don't expect precise instructions, just would be haapy about some clues.

BTW: This is a softwareproject at the university of magdeburg / germany

Thanks in advance,
Jens Grubert

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