[Vm-dev] feature request: set Mac window title/icon via command-line argument

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Fri Feb 24 15:52:02 UTC 2012


I have seen apps change the dock icon dynamically. So if there was a primitive that took a bitmap, similar to setting the cursor bitmap ...

- Bert -

On 24.02.2012, at 16:50, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> you can change window title and size from image.
> Bert's additions are integrated on current pharo and HostWindowPlugin works on Cocoa builds... 
> 
> However, that wont change dock title, juts window title... afaik (I can, and I hope be wrong) that just can be done by having a "document application" and it is  not so easy to adapt current vm to that... 
> Anyway, I'm annoyed by that too, and I did some experiments (failed for now) to try adapt this... and I will still try :) 
> 
> best,
> Esteban
> 
> El 24/02/2012, a las 12:36p.m., Bert Freudenberg escribió:
> 
>> 
>> On 24.02.2012, at 16:25, Craig Latta wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi--
>>> 
>>>   I frequently run multiple Squeaks on my Mac, and it would be handy
>>> to be able to tell them apart in the Dock. How about setting the
>>> application window title and icon from command-line arguments?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> You can change the window title from image (see attachment, we use that in Etoys) but I know of no other Mac app that changes the app name dynamically ...
>> 
>> - Bert -
>> 
>> <host window access.st.gz>
> 





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