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David Faught

what is the status of multi window

Tim Rowledge wrote:
>> Some of the code might be specific to Tweak, but the plugin
>> certainly is not. You should at least be able to call the
>> primitives to open windows, display a form etc.

>Absolutely. The original development testing was done with workspace
>doits to open windows, display in them, fetch events from them. John
>did some demo stuff to try to hook up individual project windows to
>host windows. I think it should be a case of hooking individual
>windows to host windows instead. Somebody with good knowledge of
>morphic would need to look at that. See http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/
>squeak/3862

>From this discussion, it sounds like this support will let
Squeak/Tweak display its content in host windows, so for example
Croquet might be able to display multiple views of a scene in
host-controlled windows, if someone got creative with OpenGL.

Somehow I had the impression that this support would allow the reverse
- a host process, like Firefox or Excel, to display its window inside
the Squeak/Tweak Display with some measure of interactivity with
Squeak/Tweak events. Now I'm bummed out because I was hoping that
this would close the "lack of a good Internet browser" gap. Now I'm
curious how Sophie handles HTML (or other Internet-based) links.

Bert Freudenberg

Web browser (was Re: what is the status of multi window)

Am 16.10.2006 um 14:42 schrieb David Faught:

> Tim Rowledge wrote:
>>> Some of the code might be specific to Tweak, but the plugin
>>> certainly is not. You should at least be able to call the
>>> primitives to open windows, display a form etc.
>
>> Absolutely. The original development testing was done with workspace
>> doits to open windows, display in them, fetch events from them. John
>> did some demo stuff to try to hook up individual project windows to
>> host windows. I think it should be a case of hooking individual
>> windows to host windows instead. Somebody with good knowledge of
>> morphic would need to look at that. See http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/
>> squeak/3862
>
>> From this discussion, it sounds like this support will let
> Squeak/Tweak display its content in host windows, so for example
> Croquet might be able to display multiple views of a scene in
> host-controlled windows, if someone got creative with OpenGL.
>
> Somehow I had the impression that this support would allow the reverse
> - a host process, like Firefox or Excel, to display its window inside
> the Squeak/Tweak Display with some measure of interactivity with
> Squeak/Tweak events. Now I'm bummed out because I was hoping that
> this would close the "lack of a good Internet browser" gap. Now I'm
> curious how Sophie handles HTML (or other Internet-based) links.

I thought you were working on the MediaView browser?

- Bert -

johnmci

Re: what is the status of multi window

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> this would close the "lack of a good Internet browser" gap. Now I'm
> curious how Sophie handles HTML (or other Internet-based) links

Ah, well we cheat, a link is a reference object which in this case
resolves to a URI, the URI handler then says
oh look a http:// mmm who can handle this link URI, the class that
leaps to the foreground is
responsible for asking the operating system to open the URI. This of
course on the mac triggers your
browser of choice to open on the URL via an FFI call, same for
windows too.

Now of course if the link is a media object the sophie resource
manager asks the URI handler who can
read this URI. That of course triggers the URL logic to invoke the
Squeak htttp logic to read the URI. Mind of course
now that there is a CURL plugin we'll consider if that should be
invoked to get the information.

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johnmci

Re: what is the status of multi window

In reply to this post by David Faught

On 16-Oct-06, at 5:42 AM, David Faught wrote:

>
> curious how Sophie handles HTML (or other Internet-based) links.

As a side note Sophie does not interpret HTML if imported, mind if
you have say a million Euros we certainly can talk. However on the
mac if you grab a chunk of textual/image/link data in Safari or
FireFox that information does become RTF data on the clipboard.
Then the Sophie RTF importer tries it's best to create a Sophie text
tree that contains the text/font/size/spacing/leading/etc, with image
and link data intact.

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