Hello folks.

I'd like to ask, if there any 'standartized' instruments for headless
images (or alike).

I need a simple things:
 - redirect all  ToolSet/UIManager messages to Transcript
 - redirect Transcript logging to file or stdout

in short, these tools should serve a simple, yet important purpose:
 - if image runs in headless mode, it should suppress anything which
expecting user interaction (like showing warnings with 'continue'
button) and either log such messages to file
or simply quit image with error message.

Without such tool it is quite difficult to monitor, what happens with
your headless image.. unless you have RFB installed.. but that is
different and unrelated story.


I did a prototype once for Hydra (you can check it at
SqS/HydraVM/HydraVM.mcz package)
there are two subclasses:
- MorphicUIManager subclass: #HydraUIManager
- StandardToolSet subclass: #HydraDebugToolSet

and
- WriteStream subclass: #HydraTranscript

which can be installed as a Transcript.

And in order to prepare image to run in headless mode, i issued:
	ToolSet unregister: StandardToolSet.
	ToolSet register: HydraDebugToolSet.
	UIManager default: HydraUIManager new.

Also, HydraTranscript
startUp does something like:

	TranscriptStream
		newTranscript: (self basicNew initialize
				on: (String new: 1000))


With that i could run the image in headless mode, knowing that in case
of error or warning etc, all will be redirected to transcript,
moreover i even stopped the UI process, so it never run on headless images.

I wonder if there are other work, which can offer similar,
and is there any way to detect that image are running in headless mode?


-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.