Re: [Pharo-project] Throwing out the windowing support from core VM features

Igor Stasenko wrote:

ohh... a small correction. Not #hasDisplay, but #hasDisplays.

Which is conceptually VERY important!

And Ffenestri provides support for that. We actually have something running (sort of ;-) ) that opens multiple native windows based on ffenestri. I'm all for factoring out the input and display stuff into plugins, ffenestri is IMHO a good base for that. You can still use bitblt or balloon for display, so you don't necessarily have to rely on external libraries as GTK does. IIRC the newer VMs already delay opening the window and only do it on first access, so a first step in the right direction. But this, again, raises the question of VM building ;-) Michael