Check with the 3.10 team.
Subject: Re: Ffenestri (multiple host window support), and Mac Host
Menus
Date: January 15, 2007 2:48:02 PM PST (CA)
> The 3.10 team asked me to build a change set for Ffenestri
> (multiple host window support), and Mac Host Menus for 3.10.
> The last change set was build for Tweak in 2004.
>
> I've updated my ftp site and my idisk in the Ffenestri folder found
> in the experimental directory with a number of new
> change sets that let you load the Ffenestri logic into a 3.10
> image, likely also into a 3.9 image. Testing shows that this re-
> released code works with Mac PowerPC and MacIntel. I did uncover a
> byte order problem on macintel btw.
>
> For the additional Macintosh Host menu support, used by Sophie, and
> by Scratch I've also pushed out a set of change sets
> to allow one to load that logic into a 3.10 image, likely also into
> a 3.9 image too. Testing shows that this re-released code works
> with Mac PowerPC and MacIntel.
>
> I did NOT revisit the Tweak support, there seems to be a LACK of
> interest. Anyone who wants to explore that should email me and I'll
> point out the methods of interest they can rework for Tweak. Of
> course for Tweak you can open a tweak project in a host window and
> expect everything to work since the display and event queue are
> instance variables, not globals like in Morphic.
ftp://ftp.smalltalkconsulting.com/experimental/Ffenestri
On Jun 24, 2007, at 8:37 AM, tim Rowledge wrote:
>
> On 24-Jun-07, at 7:19 AM, Herbert König wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I wanted to have a look at Areithfa Ffenestri and couldn't find a
>> link
>> for download, only a lot of references on the mailing list.
>
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3862 is the current intro page. The
> VM code is in the VM repository under 'HostWindowPlugin'. Aside
> from some simple testing code there isn't any image code to speak
> of; someone needs to write it. John wrote some code to treat a
> Project as a host window but I really don't like that approach very
> much. In my opinion we really want the ability to have each window
> as a window. If some suitable high-level morph (existing or new)
> can be made a suitable proxy for the host window then Ffenestri
> should have enough API to allow us to make fully host decorated
> main windows, undecorated host windows to use as pop-up menus and
> dialogues and pretty much anything else.
>
> Now that we have access to Cairo drawing libraries and all the font
> stuff it really ought to be possible to implement a Squeak UI that
> hardly ever needs to fall back to simple bitblt. The potential for
> performance enhancement is enormous.
>
> tim
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>
>
>
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