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.
