Hi Brian,
Also, which projects make this kind of effort obsolete or easier? I know about and like the Services/Commands framework and UI, and Tweak's menubar system, but don't know what they seek to replace. What I don't know is whether there is a simple menu-bar or other such system for easily setting up some shared-styled UI features that get the salient features right in front of the user instead of burying them in context menus.
if you are using 3.9, you may want to have a look at TestRunner (included in 3.9). Lukas Renggli wrote it and it is very good I think. It uses the new tool framework, ToolBuilder. I think this is the right new way of implementing tool. It should be compatible with new frameworks.
Tell me when you trust your implementation, I will include it in Squeak-dev image.
Thanks for your work.
Bye