[squeak-dev] Squeak DisplayHostWindow - should it be functional these days?

Tobias Pape Das.Linux at gmx.de
Sat Jul 30 05:51:15 UTC 2022



> On 30. Jul 2022, at 06:10, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 07:32:17PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
>> I was just blithely explaining on stackoverflow that we can open host
>> windows and... not on linux/arm I can't! I'll admit I haven't tried in,
>> well, I suspect the computer I last tried it on was powered by a tyrannosaur
>> in a treadmill.
>> 
>> Does it work on Mac? Windows? Have we lost this incredibly useful facility?
>> 
> 
> As far as I know, this was never implemented on the Unix VM. Ian implemented
> the display in loadable VM modules, which typically will be the vm-display-X11
> VM module for a Unix or Linux platform with X11 based user interface (OS X
> is probably a Unix VM using vm-display-Quartz nowadays, right? I'm not sure).

Not in the slightest. It uses a completely different approach.
It reuses the unix socket code and such, but that's it.
-t

> 
> For a Linux VM you will find the hostWindow display functions in
> platforms/unix/vm-display-X11/sqUnixX11.c with function names such as
> display_hostWindowCreate() as the implementation of hostWindowCreate().
> 
> If you look at those functions in sqUnixX11.c you will see that they
> are stub implementations that do not actually do anything. So the
> the stub code was added by Vanessa a long time ago, but no actual
> implementation has been done in the intervening years.
> 
> So no, we have not lost this facility. It has never been implemented
> for the X11 display on Unix/Linux.
> 
> This might be a good project for somebody to pick up. Volunteers?
> 
> Dave
> 




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