Installing Alien proved to be quite a challenge... but I managed! Now I got an instance of ObjectiveCAlien that (I think) represents some kind of dock object, but I don't really know what to do with it...
Here's what I have: #NSApplication inObjectiveC sharedApplication dockTile What kind of methods does this take? I see ObjectiveCAlien is a proxy, so I can't really browse what messages can I send it. Any hints? Thanks!!! Bernat. 2014-05-27 15:44 GMT+02:00 Bernat Romagosa <tibabenfortlapala...@gmail.com>: > OK! I'll try that! > > You sure deserve some credit in the Snap4Arduino MacOSX version... ;) > > Thanks a lot! > Bernat. > > > 2014-05-27 15:32 GMT+02:00 Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com>: > > >> 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 <http://www.square-i.net/> 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. >> >> >> > > > -- > Bernat Romagosa. > -- Bernat Romagosa.
