Mini FAQ for LSW Squeak-Windows Bindings

Version: 3.1 from 05/22/2002 updates Version 3.0 from 02/20/2002

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What does that mean Windows-Bindings - Squeak already supports Windows ?

•  Squeak doesn't support native GUI programming.

But there is the FFI - so one can just add the required Bindings for User.dll, GDI.dll Is that what LSW - Squeak-Windows-Bindings is doing ?

•  yes. But the major part was changing the VM.

When LSW Squeak-Bindings will be available ?

•  there was litte interest - contact us via mail.

Will it be public available ?

• we planned so - the Squeak license tells us to publish additions to the base system in the same way as Squeak itself.

We are still waiting for the promised Sponsoring from a R&D department which initiated the LSW Squeak Windows-Bindings development. At the moment it looks like this can take quite a while - and after all we may loose our interest to invest time in it.

For commercial development it is advisable to use commercial Smalltalk's. Visit www.smalltalk-programming.com.

Why we never heard about LSW and LSWVST before ?

• LSW is quite an oldie Software Development Firm. We started 1980 and stay very small since these days. We started to develop OO-Software with Smalltalk/V and Actor. And we worked for years in R&D. Since 1995 where we feel that Smalltalk's popularity start to drop, we had a dream to have an proprietary Smalltalk which we start to realize since 1996 from a private Project which was done in the 80ies. Then we discovered Squeak and we were fascinated. So we decided to move some parts of our stuff to Squeak. This turned out to be quite a big enterprise.

We extended our VM to be able to make Platform Bindings for .NET. Now we are using LSW-Vision-Smalltalk (LSWVST) to create .NET tools .