[Etoys] Window events

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Thu Aug 30 16:31:07 EDT 2007


Thanks ... I think I'll trim the change set down to include only what  
we need for now. We still can push the whole lot later if needed.

- Bert -

On Aug 30, 2007, at 10:24 , Takashi Yamamiya wrote:

> 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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