Thanks esteban I copied and pasted your email in the how to draft in Spec2 book.
S > On 1 May 2021, at 20:47, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@netc.eu> wrote: > > Hello, > > Remember: every time you execute "pharo-ui" you are invoking the UI (as the > last part of the name says). If you want to NOT have the UI, you need to > execute "pharo" : > > ./pharo Pharo.Image eval RunGtk execute > > BUT: this will not work because the image will evaluate "RunGtk execute" and > then will exit (because it will evaluate it as a script). To avoid that you > need to execute: > > ./pharo Pharo.Image eval --no-quit "RunGtk execute" > > That will work as you want. > > BUT, this is not how executing Spec applications is envisaged : > > I guess you defined an application (a children of SpApplication?) where you > set your backend to make it a Gtk application ? > and you have override #start to do something like (MyPresenter > newApplication: self) openWithSpec ? > > In that case, you just need to define in your application class (say is named > MyApplication) : > > MyApplication class >> applicationName > ^ 'gtkapp' > > then, is enough to say: > > ./pharo Pharo.image run gtkapp > > which would be the "canonical" way to do it :) > > Esteban > > > On May 1 2021, at 1:12 pm, kmo <vox...@gmail.com> wrote: > After not lookng at it for I while, I tried the Gtk Spec bindings again on my > Xubuntu desktop and - this time - they worked. I was able to open a new > window using Spec-Gtk, the latest headless VM and the latest Pharo 9. > (Many thanks to all concerned). > > But I've immediately hit the same issue as I've raised before with SLD > support (OSWindow) - it seems impossible to open a Gtk window without the > whole Pharo IDE being shown as well. > > If I run the following command line - > > ./pharo-ui Pharo.Image eval RunGtk execute > > I get the Pharo IDE and a GTK window opened > > If I run > > ./pharo Pharo.Image eval RunGtk execute > > I just get the string RunGtk returned. No window opens. > > I presume this will work some time in the future. Otherwise what's the use > of Spec-Gtk (or OSWindow for that matter)? You might as well just use Spec > on Morphic. > > > > -- > Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Aurore Dalle FAX 03 59 57 78 50 TEL 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France
