Re: Should this package be included into the NS port?

[George Plymale II <georgedp@orbitalimpact.com>]

Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> writes:

> Sorry, yes. I’ve only got limited time for Emacs at the moment, so I’m
> being a bit slow in responding.

No problem, I was just unsure if you saw Stefan's message.

> This does help, though.
>
> It seems that if you end up in the situation where you’ve only got the
> terminal left you can use
>
>     (make-frame-on-display (car (x-display-list)))
>
> to create a new GUI frame, but the problem now is that the Emacs event
> the dock menu fires (ns-new-frame) is only available in NS frames (or
> something, I’m unclear), so if the current frame is a terminal frame,
> and you click on ‘new frame’ in the dock menu, the terminal displays
>
>     <268435468> is undefined
>
> I assume what we need to do is define the ns-new-frame event somewhere
> other than nsterm.h, which is where it is now.
>
> This all sounds wrong to me, tbh. But I don’t know of any other way we
> can run lisp from within the NSApp run loop than by firing off events
> or setting a flag and catching it later.

Hmm, very interesting. Yes, all of what you're saying makes sense
although it does perhaps seem a bit "wrong" as you say. Nonetheless, a
"wrong" solution may be better than no solution. Just my 2¢

- George Plymale II