On Apr 12, 2013, at 1:08 PM, p...@highoctane.be wrote: > One crappy hack would be to have two host windows started by the VM and the > Pharo Display bitmap split in two and each half being painted in its own > window at the VM level. > > Which could even be extented to 'n' windows. > > The current display code uses a nxn matrix to repaint, refreshing in two > windows is doable without too much fuss. > > For a Proof of Concept, that's workable. > Phil
The painting itself isn't the real bear though, but event handling/distribution with multiple concurrent "worlds" and/or displays (or, in another term, WindowManagers). I mean, Areithfa Ffenestri (http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3862) has provided a workable multiple-windows API / VM implementation (on MacOS at least) for years, but the image-side code changes needed to make it work with source-aware events are still MIA. And that's not just due to lack of interest. Cheers, Henry
