[Etoys] Window events

Takashi Yamamiya tak at metatoys.org
Thu Aug 30 13:24:38 EDT 2007


Hi Bert,

I think it is not bad that we include multiple screen
support now if we will need it sometime.
But this change set doesn't work in etoys image.
Maybe more support codes are needed. Try Alt (Command) + ..

Cheers,
- Takashi

>> The original support code is here:
>>
>> ftp://smalltalkconsulting.com/experimental/Ffenestri/Ffenestri-b-4-Events-Morphic.1.cs

>> Does anybody see a downside to including that changeset verbatim? I  
>> haven't compared it to the current code in the image in detail yet.  
>> It does a bit more than we need right now, sow we could strip it  
>> down, OTOH, I suspect this will land in the the squeak.org version  
>> sooner or later so having it should not be bad.
> 
>   When Etoys is in the background (not in the foreground) and receives
> the event, (any of) Etoys screen or dialog from Etoys wouldn't appear
> on screen but Etoys would silently save the current project, right?
> In this line of thought, the need for distinguishing two windows does
> sound overkill.
> 
>   The other stuff is that the implication of -lazy and this one.  Of
> course, even if we use -lazy option for the VM, the VM can just "wake
> up" the image when the VM receives some urgent event like this,..



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