Are there some standard methods of embedding foreign controls into the Squeak desktop?

I have seen this demo on Sean's blog:
http://seandenigris.com/blog/?p=723 which shows a QuickTime movie
playing on the squeak desktop. Is there some generalized way of
getting external controls to show up in Morphic controls or the Squeak
desktop itself?

I am interested in get text editing controls to appear inside the
World view. However I also think that being able to use alternative
syntax highlighters inside TextMorphForEditView may be a better
alternative. is the Syntax highlighting in TextMorphForEditView
hardwired for Smalltalk syntax?

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Frank Church

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On 12 January 2013 12:38, Frank Church <[hidden email]> wrote:
In Squeak, syntax highlighting's done by Shout. Models interested in
doing (Smalltalk) syntax highlighting implement #aboutToStyle: (see
CodeHolder subclases), returning true.

The precise highlighter is controlled by #shoutParserClass. By default
(in Behavior class) that's an SHParserST80. I don't see why one
couldn't use a different expression parser.

In short, the syntax highlighting is completely independent of the UI
widgets like TextMorphForEditView.

I meant to tear Lukas Renggli's LanguageBoxes/Helvetia work to pieces
so as to bring it back to life, but haven't yet found the time.
Helvetia aims to bring arbitrary parsers, compilers and highlighting
for same to the various tools, to allow other languages to be used
within an image. It's really interesting tech, and I really do need to
find the time to hack on it.

frank

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>  Is there some generalized way of
> getting external controls to show up in Morphic controls or the Squeak
> desktop itself?

If I understand your question correctly, I think that believe RFB  /
VNC can show you the contents of a remote window inside Squeak /
Pharo.

Good luck with adding parser(s) to Shout, however, as that seems to be
the way to go.

David