Re: [Help-smalltalk] (long) DLD help / SDL bindings for GNU Smalltalk

[Simon Britnell]

--- Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> You can use `SDLVideoInfo type' in the returning:
> parameter.  It comes to mind that the gdbm module
> demonstrates a lot of subtleties in the C interface.

Thanks.  I'll give gdbm a read and try writing parts
of the SDL interface.  Once I've done so successfully,
I think I'll write up an addition for the manual which
makes all this stuff crystal clear.

> > OS level thread.  Is it safe to have the callback
send
> > a message to a gnu-smalltalk object?
> 
> Theoretically yes ... However, it
> seems more sensible to make a C callback

This is what I had in mind.  The question I was trying
to ask is "Is the VM threadsafe with respect to the
operating system?".  I had a suspicion from looking at
gnu-smalltalk and squeak that smalltalk threads may
have been an event switched model implemented
independant of the OS.

> > SDL stands for Simple Directmedia Layer.  It's a
> Analogous, for example, to GGI+mikmod?

Similar to GGI except that it's designed to be
multi-OS (*nix/X11 Mac Win BeOS).  Haven't seen
mikmod, but I'd guess it's also similar there in that
it plays sound samples.

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