separate native window of same Pharo image

it is perfectly possible with OS-Window to create a morphic world and create
your own morphic content for it, then display it in a completely different
operating system window.

This is how I created a simple application which displays geometric "roses"
in a separate window to the pharo window.

First create your morph. In my case RosesMorph. This can be a compound morph
with as many sub-morphs as you like. In this way you can build a complete
application interface.

Now create a sub class of OSWindowWorldMorph like this:

OSWindowWorldMorph subclass: #RosesWorldMorph
        instanceVariableNames: ''
        classVariableNames: ''
        package: 'KMP-Roses

Add the following methods to your OSWindowWorldMorph subclass using this
code as a model:

RosesWorldMorph>>osWindowCloseButtonPressed
        self delete

RosesWorldMorph>>initialize
        | rosesMorph rosesFrame |
        super initialize.
        self layoutPolicy: ProportionalLayout new.
        self extent: 600 @ 600.
        self osWindow title: 'Roses'.
        rosesMorph := RosesMorph new.
        rosesMorph
                color:
                        (Color
                                r: 0.13
                                g: 0.13
                                b: 0.13
                                alpha: 1.0).
        rosesFrame := LayoutFrame
                fractions: (0 @ 0 corner: 1 @ 1)
                offsets: (0 @ 0 corner: 0 @ 0).
        self addMorph: rosesMorph fullFrame: rosesFrame.
        rosesMorph sticky: true
 
As you can see once you have an OSWindowWorldMorph you can add whatever
morphs you like to it.

Now you can launch your RosesWorld app in a separate window like this:

RosesWorldMorph new open.

Hope this helps


 



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Here's a screenshot of two roses windows being run from a pharo image in
another window <http://forum.world.st/file/t368903/roses.png>



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I believe this is a known Windows issue. I have certainly seen it on my
Windows machine at work. Doesn't happen on Linux.

 



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Who knows whether OSWindow is maintained? Who knows if anybody cares that it
doesn't work on Windows?

OSWindow is like lots of things that suddenly appear in the Pharo standard
image. There's no documentation. There's no plan. That's the Pharo way. Give
it a year or two and it will be superseded by another framework doing the
same thing which will also have no documentation, killer bugs, and no plan.



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