[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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