2008/9/14 John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com>:
> The deal with tweak was that when we looked at it four years ago when Tim
> and I were building Areithfa Ffenestri.
> We found that it used instance variables to hold onto the Display and the
> Sensor.
> Lurking somewhere is a change set that ensured a new Window was setup with
> Areithfa Ffenestri and hooked into the
> newly created Tweak World, then the EventSensor polling loop would dispatch
> the incoming event to the proper Tweak World based on the window index that
> is on each event (if the VM supports it).
>
> Thus Tweak would poll it's instance based event queue, and dispatch incoming
> events, and when drawing was required it would resolve drawing to the
> instance variable
> that pointed to the proper window index, thus allowing drawing in individual
> windows based on the the Tweak World.
>
> However I think Michael has build more on this model for iSqueak
>

Thanks for details.
I think that same could be applied to morphic without much pain.
The point why i asking, i want to try to completely replace core VM
functionality with HostWindow plugin. To make all stuff concerning
windowing / display will be governed by HostWindowPlugin.

Btw, I can't find the platform sources for unix port. Is they exist or not?

> On Sep 14, 2008, at 1:43 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>
>> 2008/9/14 Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
>>>
>>> Am 13.09.2008 um 23:54 schrieb Igor Stasenko:
>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> i can't find any sources which using a HostWindowPlugin (Areithfa
>>>> Ffenestri) from language side.
>>>> Can anyone provide some pointers?
>>>
>>>
>>> AFAIK it has only been used with Tweak yet (which does not rely on global
>>> state like Morphic). Code should be at
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.smalltalkconsulting.com/experimental/
>>>
>>
>> Thanks. I'd like to know if there was any attempts to replace a
>> default squeak window/display by this stuff.
>> In the code i see there are a subclass of DisplayScreen. But there no
>> methods found, which can install/deinstall a hostwindowproxy as
>> display.
>> i'm thinking that it is very good to move in that direction.
>>
>>> - Bert -
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>>
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