John Hinsley jhinsley@telinco.co.uk wrote...

Yes, I get this and did the extra VMM. If Andreas is right (and that pretty much explains things) then I guess *nix versions really need an alternative message saying that movies can be created, but not run in Unix Squeaks. (But this is a bit wierd as, as I've said, I can clearly see the "movie" as it's being made). It may be that I can play around with the creation method to get a display method (although it won't be a movie).

In this I'm just doing some preparatory playing about looking for a way to display a jubilant dancing figure who has just escaped the noose -- as in the java Hang Duke applet.

If you or anyone else is interested, it should be quite simple to fake async access on *nix with a synchronous implementation. At the worst it should only slow things down by a factor of two. This could be used until the async primitives get implemented there.

Also, for this particular application, you might want to consider a nice compact little bit of Flash.

- Dan