[squeak-dev] running headless on Mac OS X
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I need to run Squeak in headless mode on Mac OS X. As far as I know, this is the way to do it.
1) Open a Terminal window. 2) Create a symbolic link by entering ln -s "$SQUEAK_VM_DIR/Squeak{version}.app/Contents/MacOS/Squeak VM Opt" squeak 3) Create a text file with a ".st" file extension and add a sequence of Smalltalk statements in it. 4) Enter the following: squeak -headless $SQUEAK_IMAGE {filename}.stWhen I do this, I don't get any errors, but it just hangs. Here's what I have in the .st file I'm running ... pretty simple. fs := FileStream newFileNamed: 'cmdline.txt'. fs nextPutAll: 'line 1'; cr. fs nextPutAll: 'line 2'. fs.close Any idea why it doesn't exit? Maybe I need to do something more at the end of the .st file. Maybe it's related to this. If I run "squeak $SQUEAK_IMAGE", it tries to start the Squeak UI, but I get an Information dialog that says "Squeak cannot locate the sources file named /Users.Mark/SqueakV39.sources". I copied the .sources file to my home directory and ran it again. This time the UI came up, but it doesn't respond to mouse clicks. Mark Volkmann |
Re: [squeak-dev] running headless on Mac OS X
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Well actually I think you can alter the info.plist and set
LSBackgroundOnly to YES the alter the SqueakImageName to point to the image you want to run the invoke open Squeak.app and it should open as background application, no icon in dock and run the image file that is found via the SqueakImageName However it appears you are doing scripting? via supplying a *.st file at startup time. Try to get it to work with a UI first, then try the headless option or LSBackgroundOnly On Oct 5, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Mark Volkmann wrote: > I need to run Squeak in headless mode on Mac OS X. As far as I know, > this is the way to do it. > > 1) Open a Terminal window. > > 2) Create a symbolic link by entering > ln -s "$SQUEAK_VM_DIR/Squeak{version}.app/Contents/MacOS/Squeak > VM Opt" squeak > > 3) Create a text file with a ".st" file extension and add a sequence > of Smalltalk statements in it. > > 4) Enter the following: > squeak -headless $SQUEAK_IMAGE {filename}.st > > When I do this, I don't get any errors, but it just hangs. Here's > what I have in the .st file I'm running ... pretty simple. > > fs := FileStream newFileNamed: 'cmdline.txt'. > fs nextPutAll: 'line 1'; cr. > fs nextPutAll: 'line 2'. > fs.close > > Any idea why it doesn't exit? Maybe I need to do something more at > the end of the .st file. > > Maybe it's related to this. If I run "squeak $SQUEAK_IMAGE", it > tries to start the Squeak UI, but I get an Information dialog that > says "Squeak cannot locate the sources file named /Users.Mark/ > SqueakV39.sources". I copied the .sources file to my home directory > and ran it again. This time the UI came up, but it doesn't respond > to mouse clicks. > > --- > Mark Volkmann > > > > > |
Re: [squeak-dev] running headless on Mac OS X
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On Oct 5, 2008, at 8:13 PM, John M McIntosh wrote:
> Well actually I think you can alter the info.plist and set > LSBackgroundOnly to YES > the alter the SqueakImageName to point to the image you want to run > the invoke open Squeak.app and it should open as background > application, no icon in dock > and run the image file that is found via the SqueakImageName > > However it appears you are doing scripting? via supplying a *.st > file at startup time. > Try to get it to work with a UI first, then try the headless option > or LSBackgroundOnly Thanks for the advice! The code below that writes two lines to a text file named "cmdline.txt" does work when run in the UI, but when I try to run that code from a .st file using -headless, it hangs. Do you think I'd be better off to put the code in an image and customize the image so it runs headless? I don't really have a preference. I just need a pointer to some documentation on how to do it either way. For example, I don't yet know how to configure an image to tell it that I want certain code to run when the image starts up. > On Oct 5, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Mark Volkmann wrote: > >> I need to run Squeak in headless mode on Mac OS X. As far as I >> know, this is the way to do it. >> >> 1) Open a Terminal window. >> >> 2) Create a symbolic link by entering >> ln -s "$SQUEAK_VM_DIR/Squeak{version}.app/Contents/MacOS/Squeak >> VM Opt" squeak >> >> 3) Create a text file with a ".st" file extension and add a >> sequence of Smalltalk statements in it. >> >> 4) Enter the following: >> squeak -headless $SQUEAK_IMAGE {filename}.st >> >> When I do this, I don't get any errors, but it just hangs. Here's >> what I have in the .st file I'm running ... pretty simple. >> >> fs := FileStream newFileNamed: 'cmdline.txt'. >> fs nextPutAll: 'line 1'; cr. >> fs nextPutAll: 'line 2'. >> fs.close >> >> Any idea why it doesn't exit? Maybe I need to do something more at >> the end of the .st file. >> >> Maybe it's related to this. If I run "squeak $SQUEAK_IMAGE", it >> tries to start the Squeak UI, but I get an Information dialog that >> says "Squeak cannot locate the sources file named /Users.Mark/ >> SqueakV39.sources". I copied the .sources file to my home directory >> and ran it again. This time the UI came up, but it doesn't respond >> to mouse clicks. --- Mark Volkmann |
Re: [squeak-dev] running headless on Mac OS X
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Hello Mark,
MV> it either way. For example, I don't yet know how to configure an image MV> to tell it that I want certain code to run when the image starts up. I add these two lines to a .st script I create my autostart images with: Smalltalk addToStartUpList: YourApplicationClass SmalltalkImage current snapshot: true andQuit: true. YourApplicationClass needs a startUp and I guess a startUp: on the class side. As my startUp only reads self startUp: nil maybe one of them is obsolete. If a thing works, I tend to forget about the details :-) -- Cheers, Herbert |
Re: [squeak-dev] running headless on Mac OS X
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In reply to this post by John M McIntosh-2
Okay, I think I've got a handle on how StartUpList and ShutDownList in
SystemDictionary are used. 1) I created a class named MyApplication and gave it a class startUp method that creates a text file. 2) I added MyApplication to the SystemDictionary StartUpList and saved the image. When I start the image from the command line using "squeak $SQUEAK_IMAGE cmdline.st", it does create the text file. Success! However, the UI doesn't respond to the mouse when I start it this way so I have to kill Squeak from the OS. When I run it with "squeak -headless $SQUEAK_IMAGE cmdline.st", it just hangs and doesn't write the file. I'm running on Mac OS X using Squeak-Dev 3.10. Any idea why either of these problems is happening? On Oct 5, 2008, at 8:13 PM, John M McIntosh wrote: > Well actually I think you can alter the info.plist and set > LSBackgroundOnly to YES > the alter the SqueakImageName to point to the image you want to run > the invoke open Squeak.app and it should open as background > application, no icon in dock > and run the image file that is found via the SqueakImageName > > However it appears you are doing scripting? via supplying a *.st > file at startup time. > Try to get it to work with a UI first, then try the headless option > or LSBackgroundOnly > > On Oct 5, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Mark Volkmann wrote: > >> I need to run Squeak in headless mode on Mac OS X. As far as I >> know, this is the way to do it. >> >> 1) Open a Terminal window. >> >> 2) Create a symbolic link by entering >> ln -s "$SQUEAK_VM_DIR/Squeak{version}.app/Contents/MacOS/Squeak >> VM Opt" squeak >> >> 3) Create a text file with a ".st" file extension and add a >> sequence of Smalltalk statements in it. >> >> 4) Enter the following: >> squeak -headless $SQUEAK_IMAGE {filename}.st >> >> When I do this, I don't get any errors, but it just hangs. Here's >> what I have in the .st file I'm running ... pretty simple. >> >> fs := FileStream newFileNamed: 'cmdline.txt'. >> fs nextPutAll: 'line 1'; cr. >> fs nextPutAll: 'line 2'. >> fs.close >> >> Any idea why it doesn't exit? Maybe I need to do something more at >> the end of the .st file. >> >> Maybe it's related to this. If I run "squeak $SQUEAK_IMAGE", it >> tries to start the Squeak UI, but I get an Information dialog that >> says "Squeak cannot locate the sources file named /Users.Mark/ >> SqueakV39.sources". I copied the .sources file to my home directory >> and ran it again. This time the UI came up, but it doesn't respond >> to mouse clicks. --- Mark Volkmann |
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