[Morphic] Re: [UI] UI plan, my thoughts

[Juan Vuletich]

Hi Folks,

I was part of the "Morphic Team" that was in charge of the Morphic 
packages in Squeak. I believe it was in the 3.7 or 3.8 days. My work 
there was splitting the big Morphic package into Morphic, Morphic Extras 
and Etoys. I also harvested some fixes from Jerome Peace.

My idea was to stop adding code and start removing code from Morphic. I 
found little support for that from the Board and the community. And the 
next level of cleanup of dependencies between these packages was beyond 
my possibilities (and I believe beyond anyone's). So I quit and focused 
on Morphic 3. This project is not (yet) focused on the kind of problems 
you're talking about, but I'm interested in watching.

(BTW, I was not part of MCP).

Cheers,
Juan Vuletich
www.jvuletich.org

Brad Fuller wrote:
> On Sat August 25 2007, Douglas Rollwitz wrote:
>   
>> Hi;
>>
>> I also would like a more standard UI development tool,
>> one that we can use for "normal" UI development.  For
>> a few years I extended a tool called BobsUI, trying to
>> get it to that capability.  The more I added to it,
>> the more I noticed some fundamental problems with the
>> code however, and decided it needed a big refactoring.
>> I dropped supporting it due to a lack of time, but I
>> would like to pick it back up, and have others
>> participate as well.  It needs a lot of work, but I
>> also believe it can be a very good tool.
>>
>> While my goal for BobsUI is for it to be a standard
>> business UI builder, it looks nothing like a standard
>> UI builder.  This is because I was trying to improve
>> on the standard UI builders, and have it fit into the
>> Squeak paradigm.
>>
>> I will be creating a BobsUI page on the swiki soon,
>> which will go over the design and future direction I
>> would like it to have.  You can download BobsUI from
>> the Squeak Map.
>>
>> Because of the work in BobsUI, I have come to the
>> conclusion that the Moroh-HaloMorph-Halo relationship
>> needs to be refactored.  I actually did this once a
>> few years ago, but lost the code in a hard disk crash.
>>  Currently I am working on recreating this code
>> enhancement.  I will write another email on that work.
>>     
>
> Note that there is a group that is cleaning up Morphic. You might contact Juan 
> Vuletich and join efforts.
> Also: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3005
>
> I don't know how current the group is. I'll CC them to this message.
>
> brad
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