Running Cincom® ObjectStudio® Headless

On January 16, 2012, in ObjectStudio, by Mark Grinnell

The first time I got a question about running ObjectStudio headless (i.e., without any GUI running), I was a little taken aback. “We can’t do that”, I thought. “ObjectStudio was written as a Windows GUI application.” I figured it would take some careful redesign work to disentangle the Windows GUI assumptions, but I was wrong. [...]

Symbol/String Equality and the Cincom® ObjectStudio® LegacyCompiler

On November 15, 2011, in ObjectStudio, Windows-Centric, by Mark Grinnell

ObjectStudio now uses the core Collection hierarchy from VisualWorks.

Easing Frustration with Round Trip Engineering

On July 1, 2010, in ObjectStudio, Windows-Centric, by Mark Grinnell

In his own words, Mark Grinnell, the ObjectStudio Engineering Manager for Cincom Smalltalk describes why round-trip engineering is such a valuable asset in the product.