Class: PluginSupport

• Inheritance
• Description
• Class protocol
  • startup
  • support
• Private classes

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--PluginSupport

Package:

stx:libbasic

Category:

System-Support

Version:

rev: 1.17 date: 2022/03/08 22:46:11

user: cg

file: PluginSupport.st directory: libbasic

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libbasic

Description:

Provides support functions to run ST/X in an external (web-browser) window as a plugin.
(actually, it could be started from any other application just the same...)

copyright
COPYRIGHT (c) 2005 by Claus Gittinger
             All Rights Reserved

This software is furnished under a license and may be used
only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the
inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not
be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any
other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is
hereby transferred.

Class protocol:

 embedView: aView inWindowWithID: windowID

embed a view in the external (web-browser-) window

 showPluginWarning: message inWindowWithID: windowID

 startClass: anApplicationClass inWindowWithID: windowID parameters: parameters

open up a new instance of an application- or view-class in the external browserWindow

 startInBrowserWithWindowID: windowID parameters: parameters

take application-info from the browser-parameters,
and open up a new instance of it in the external browserWindow

Usage example(s):

|v| v := StandardSystemView new. v openAndWaitUntilVisible. self startInBrowserWithWindowID:v id parameters:(Dictionary new).

 getBrowserWindowHeight

 getBrowserWindowWidth

 setPluginWindowHandle: windowId

Private classes:

    StartParameterQuery