[Newbies] learning Morphic

Marcin Tustin mm3 at zepler.net
Sun Oct 12 22:18:20 UTC 2008


Not to forget SeasideXUL!

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Michael van der Gulik <mikevdg at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Mark Volkmann <mark at ociweb.com> wrote:
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>> My GUI programming background is mainly Java Swing. I'm trying to get a
>> feel for programming with Morphic. Browsing through the list of classes, I'm
>> not seeing lots of basic things I'd expect. Maybe Morphic is dramatically
>> different. I'm trying to find basic things like text fields, checkboxes,
>> radio buttons, push buttons, lists, tables, trees, etc.
>>
>> I've searched for Morphic tutorials. Most seem to focus on custom graphics
>> rather than these basic GUI widgets.
>>
>> Where should I start?
>>
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> Yea, they're... er... not there. IMHO Squeak has only rudimentary support
> for GUIs, despite people raving about Morphic.
>
> I tried with Morphic and gave up. For simple stuff, it works okay. If you
> do more complex stuff, you end up wasting too much time making stuff work.
> And then when it does work, it looks like... Morphic.
>
> I now use ToolBuilder; it should be installed in your image. It was
> originally written as a cross-platform base for making all the Squeak tools
> work on Morphic, MVC, Tweak etc, and was originally designed only to have
> enough functionality to make the basic Squeak tools work. There's some
> example code but otherwise no documentation as far as I know. If you want me
> to, I could write some documentation for it.
>
> There's also wxSqueak and SqueakGTK, which use native widgets. I don't know
> much about them. You could also use Seaside to make web applications which
> look like anything else does in a web browser, but then you'll be in the
> unfortunate position of making a GUI using a markup language originally
> designed for sharing hyperlinked documents over a stateless network
> protocol.
>
> Gulik.
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