[Vm-dev] Re: X window handling
David T. Lewis
lewis at mail.msen.com
Thu May 31 11:33:32 UTC 2007
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 12:27:41PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Hi Ian, David,
>
> I think you're the experts for Squeak X window handling ... What
> would be needed to modify the Unix VM to not open a window until the
> beDisplay() primitive is called? That's how the Mac and Acorn VMs
> handle things, making headless operation controllable from the image.
It's not hard. I actually did this once before, change set attached.
I don't have time to look at it right now to see if it still works
(probably not since I did it in 1999), but it should not be hard to
bring it up to date.
> Secondly, what's your estimate of making the host window support
> work? It is implemented on Win and Mac VMs but not X11 yet. It
> basically is just some primitives to open, close, resize, and move
> windows, and display bits, plus the event reporting to the image
> needs to set a window index field.
It's probably not hard to implement something similar to
XDisplayControlPlugin for this. When do you need to have it done?
Dave
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