David, Marcel,

> On Jul 22, 2022, at 6:03 AM, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Eliot --
> 
> > I've tried
> >    ./Squeak.app/Contents/MacOS/Squeak trunk6-64.image -- --filein
> 
> Well, that "--filein" is the mechanism of "DoItFirst" and not the good-old start-up *.st script. DoItFirst is triggered way too early for a typical script. Just do it as always then? "./vm my.image startup.st" would be my best guess.

Does it make sense then to have DoItFirst intercept — as a first argument and arrange that what follows is done later?

What about the drop files event?  Perhaps DoItFirst should intercept — and do nothing, leaving if yo whatever generates the drop files event to initiate processing.  I will experiment.
> 
> Best,
> Marcel
>> Am 22.07.2022 03:24:07 schrieb Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>>     I'm trying ot update the VMMaker image build scripts. I've got as far as downloading the latest 6.x image and VM (much easier now; thanks to everyone who has made the github pages easier to navigate!!).
>> 
>> How do I launch a trunk6 image with a script so that the system is running headful and one can see it make progress?
>> 
>> I am launching with this on MacOS: and I get a headless blank screen that appears to be 640x480, quite different to the normal startup showing the configuration wizard I get f I launch without the arguments:
>> 
>> ./Squeak.app/Contents/MacOS/Squeak trunk6-64.image -- UpdateSqueakTrunkImage.st
>> 
>> where trunk6-64.image is a clone of e.g. Squeak6.0-22104-64bit.image
>> 
>> I've tried
>>     ./Squeak.app/Contents/MacOS/Squeak trunk6-64.image -- --filein UpdateSqueakTrunkImage.st    ./Squeak.app/Contents/MacOS/Squeak trunk6-64.image --filein UpdateSqueakTrunkImage.st
>> etc, but get the 640x480 grey screen image.  
>> _,,,^..^,,,_
>> best, Eliot
> 
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