On 30 May 2014, at 08:00, Bernat Romagosa <tibabenfortlapala...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Installing Alien proved to be quite a challenge... but I managed! why? configuration should work out of the box. > > 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? you can browse the Cocoa documentation (I use http://appkido.com but you need xcode installed and docs intalled too). Esteban > > 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 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.
