[Newbies] Best list box morph

Gary Dunn osp at aloha.com
Fri Mar 26 21:31:00 UTC 2010


On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:31:39 -0500 David Mitchell <david.mitchell at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Have you looked at Maui?

Yes, Maui is beautiful. I have ridden the Hana Road by bicycle four times. Paia is famous for wind surfing.
> 
> http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3836

Oh, that Maui. I am not looking for yet another quirky UI builder. My goal is to teach high school students how to construct simple, focused apps using morphs. In tcl/tk I find list boxes useful building blocks and am supprised not to find any on the Objects tab.

Installing from SqueakMap fails because Maui breaks FileList.

Installing from Montecello fails because what I see looks nothing like what the wiki page describes, and the load generates a long list of warnings.

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On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:47:53 -0700 (PDT) Jerome Peace <peace_the_dreamer at yahoo.com> wrote:

>From your description it sounds like you are trying to mimic what a pdf
> reader does (or
> what a web page does) with a index table of contents in the left frame and
> the file contents
> or page in the right frame. Is that correct?

Yes, but this is a specific example of a more generalized problem.
 
> Assuming you could program it could you mock up the visuals for a page
> without worring
> about how it would work dynamically?

Did that. Not on winning path.
> 
> The other interesting thing to do is look at a simple browser and see how
> it works.
> Usually there is a window which has a model. Inside the window there are
> components such
> as pluggalbe lists and pluggable texts holders etc. Something, probably the
> model suggest
> how to layout the frames in the window. The various components communicate
> with each other
> by announcing changes and listening for update
> messages.

Sounds like old fashioned Smalltalk. I want students to become productive using Viewers and tiles and scripts. Tearing apart System Browser will come later.
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