On 27 May 2014, at 10:13, Bernat Romagosa <tibabenfortlapala...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mariano, > > Thanks, I used this method, but my problem is I do need an icon in the dock :) > > I'm using Pharo as a server, and I'd need the user to be able to stop it > without any command-line knowledge. > > Esteban, I'll try with Alien. I'm curious though, doesn't NativeBoost replace > Alien now? yes, but the ObjC bridge for NB is not working (yet, and until I found time to do it :( ) better to use the Alien FFI until then, so you can do something like: #NSApplication asObjectiveC sharedApplication dockTile … (and etc.) :) Esteban > > Thanks! > > Bernat. > > > 2014-05-27 14:35 GMT+02:00 Mariano Martinez Peck <marianop...@gmail.com>: > Hi Bernat, > > About a year ago I did implement that on the Pharo VM (the Pharo's branch of > Cog). It was integrated as far as I remember. > I copied pasted here the ANN I sent to the mailing list: > > > Hello there, > > For a long time, Pharaoers and Squakers have been asking for headless support > in the Cocoa VMs just as we have with Carbon VMs. Carbon is becoming a legacy > framework so people needed this. > > I wanted to thanks Square [i] International for sponsoring me to implement > such a support. Not only have they sponsored the development but they have > also agreed to release it under MIT license for the community. This headless > support will be included in the official Pharo VM and will be, therefore, > accessible to everybody. > > The project is not yet finished but I do have a demo/prototype that I wanted > to share with you so that you can test it and give me feedback. This VM > should only work starting at OSX 10.6. > > How to use it? Basically it works this way: to have headless, just edit the > Info.plist and set the flag LSBackgroundOnly to 1 (add the key if it is not > present): > > <key>LSBackgroundOnly</key> > <true/> > > When doing this, you don't even need the -headless anymore since, setting > LSBackgroundOnly to 1, will cause the same effect (being the flag almost > mandatory). If you don't want headless, put it to false or don't even put the > key. If you don't set LSBackgroundOnly to 1 but send -headless, the VM will > still be headless but you will see a little flash. If this flash bothers you, > then set the flag. I am trying to get a way to avoid the "flash" while also > avoiding to set LSBackgroundOnly to 1, but I still couldn't find it. Anyway, > I think we can live with the current situation. > > How to test it? You should run the image with something like RFB or Seaside > or whatever you can and then confirm if it is working even if you > areheadless. As a matter of testing, I saved an image with seaside running in > the port 5555. You can get both, this Seaside image and the VM withheadless > from: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/r7qk49bxywk2xce/6N7-fdyx6V > So if you run the VM headless with that image and go to localhost:5555, you > should see that Seaside is running. > > I would appreciate if you can test it. And please let me know in which > version of OSX you tried. Of course, the more of you who can test it, the > better. Notice that this VM was compiled with LLVM GCC 4.2 and it may have > some problems in older OSX versions (but I think it shouldn't). I still > couldn't compile a VM with GNU GCC 4.2 as I get a crash :( > > Expected results? In headless mode, anything should be displayed (no window, > no menu, no item in the dock and nothing appear when switching apps). When > running headfull, everything should be normal. > > Where is the code? The code I have modified to the VM is committed to my own > fork of the VM: https://gitorious.org/~marianopeck/cogvm/marianopecks-blessed > Once the code is ready, I will do a pull request so that it can be > integrated. > > > > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Bernat Romagosa > <tibabenfortlapala...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi list, > > is it possible to have Pharo run headless while still showing up in the dock? > > In the same direction, is it possible to add contextual menu items to the > dock menu? Or for what matters, to the top system menu? > > Thanks! > > -- > Bernat Romagosa. > > > > -- > Mariano > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com > > > > -- > Bernat Romagosa.
