Re: a window for a tool

[Stefan Urbanek]

Adam Fedor wrote:
> 
> Chris B.Vetter wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 May 2002 20:45:39 +0200 (CEST)
> > Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >>What's a tool?  What's an application?
> >>
> > [...]
> >
> >>So either you use application.make,  or you'll have to add gnustep-gui
> >>to the libraries to be linked with your "tool".
> >>
> >
> > Obviously, you cannot use NSPanel(s) in a tool that's designed for
> > a pure text console, eg a daemon like, say, gdomap.
> >
> > However, it's an interesting issue, eg. for Interface, as Interface is 
> > compiled
> > as a tool -- but being able to use NSPanel(s) in Interface WOULD make sense,
> > eg for notifications if sth goes wrong (error handler), questions (wanna 
> > quit?)
> > or a mere copyright notice...
> >
> > So the question "(how) is it possible to use NSPanel in a Tool?" IS valid, 
> > IMHO.
> >
> >
> 
> Well you ought to be able to just get the sharedApplication object
> (which makes the 'connection' to the window server), then start up your
> own runloop which will receive and process events (see NSApplication for
> examples). This should not start up anything else unless it's absolutely
> needed - although I woundn't expect to be able to do any more than throw
> up an alert panel or something similer.
> 
> I haven't actually tried this, but if it doesn't work that way, one
> could reasonably consider it a bug (patches *happily* accepted).
> 

It seems to work. At least, StepTalk examples do. See files in
StepTalk/Examples/Appkit. They are executed by the non-gui tool stexec.

Stefan