Jaroslaw,
On Windows one can use COM connect package - the demo included with
distribution lets you embed IE browser into the Smalltalk window. I 've
seen people use Excel inside VW as well.
There is a company in Europe which specializes in providing tools to
simplify COM usage -- Joops.com
The problem with the COM is that if the OCX control crashes it may take
down the VW process as well.
AS far as doing it on other platforms like Mac - I have no idea if
anything of the sort is available
My 2c.
--Mark
Jaroslaw Podgajny wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> A friend of mine was showing me some time a go a cool third party
> drawing tool he was driving off VW image via a set of files and a
> #cshOne:. He also complained about problems closing the window
> automatically and the likes...
> This made me think about how difficult would it be to embed an
> application inside of a VW image - imagine running a Corel Draw on a tab
> of your workbook somewhere in the image... Initially I was just thinking
> about simple stuff like starting a process and killing it when a widget
> was released or something. Maybe later one would like to have some
> events preprocessed via the image - "mouse in/out" or maybe some event
> emulation.
>
> Can someone comment on how difficult would it be to build an OS Wrapper
> thingy to service this?
>
>
>
> Regards, Jaroslaw.
>
>
>
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