[Seaside] [ANN] SeasideXUL

[Milan Zimmermann]

On 2008 April 14, Pavel Krivanek wrote:
> download here:
> http://comtalk.eu/public/pub/SeasideXUL/SeasideXUL.zip

Thanks, this is really good! 

(minor notes, the right main pane is not scrollable and the Trees, simple and 
nested, do not show  but i am sure you are aware of it)

Thanks Milan
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Milan Zimmermann
>
> <milan.zimmermann at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >  I have just a few weeks ago started to consider XULRunner for my next
> >  application, so this is really exciting. I was wondering if it would be
> >  possible to make your image available to play with the XUL user
> > interface demo port...
> >
> >  Thanks Milan
> >
> >  On 2008 April 13, Pavel Krivanek wrote:
> >  > Hi all,
> >  >
> >  > I started the project named SeasideXUL. This package enables to
> >  > generate XUL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL) code in Seaside 2.9 so
> >  > now we can create applications with standard look&feel directly in
> >  > Smalltalk with the power of Seaside.
> >  >
> >  > Pictures are worth more than thousand words:
> >  > http://comtalk.eu/public/pub/SeasideXUL/screenshots/
> >  >
> >  > XUL can be displayed directly in FireFox or there's a project named
> >  > XULRunner that enables to run it as a standalone application (see
> >  > screenshots, the application then can use own shortcuts etc.) but
> >  > still in thin-client/server architecture. Standard HTML or SVG code
> >  > can be embedded in XUL page.
> >  >
> >  > I had to created ajax-based call/answer mechanism with continuations
> >  > for SeasideXUL. The complete port of XUL Periodic Table
> >  > (http://www.hevanet.com/acorbin/xul/top.xul) is included as the
> >  > demonstration application. However lot of next things wait for
> >  > implementation (e.g. some alternative to forms) or need to be made
> >  > more robust and easily usable (whole ajax part).
> >  >
> >  > Seaside 2.9 is quite hard to load and SeasideXUL doesn't reflect some
> >  > latest changes in this package (Seaside 2.9 is still under heavy
> >  > development) so if you want to try SeasideXUL on your own in this
> >  > stage of development, do not await a nice walk through a rosarium. It
> >  > was developed on this set of packages:
> >  >
> >  > Scriptaculous-Components (Scriptaculous-Components-lr.41)
> >  > Scriptaculous-Core (Scriptaculous-Core-lr.18)
> >  > Scriptaculous-Squeak-Core (Scriptaculous-Squeak-Core-lr.1)
> >  > Scriptaculous-Tests (Scriptaculous-Tests-lr.21)
> >  > Seaside-Adapters-Core (Seaside-Adapters-Core-pmm.3)
> >  > Seaside-Core (Seaside-Core-lr.120)
> >  > Seaside-Development-Core (Seaside-Development-Core-lr.20)
> >  > Seaside-Examples (Seaside-Examples-pmm.1)
> >  > Seaside-Squeak-Adapters (Seaside-Squeak-Adapters-mu.7)
> >  > Seaside-Squeak-Core (Seaside-Squeak-Core-dkh.38)
> >  > Seaside-Squeak-Development (Seaside-Squeak-Development-pmm.10)
> >  > Seaside-Squeak-Kom (Seaside-Squeak-Kom-pmm.13)
> >  > Seaside-Tests (Seaside-Tests-dkh.102)
> >  > Seaside-Utils-Core (Seaside-Utils-Core-lr.7)
> >  >
> >  > Scriptaculous dependency should be removed in next versions.
> >  >
> >  > Mozilla seems to be pretty strong platform provider and future
> >  > versions of FireFox should be based directly on the XULRunner. I hope
> >  > that we did the important step to gain multi-platform and
> >  > multi-implementation user interface framework for Smalltalk.
> >  >
> >  > Cheers,
> >  > -- Pavel
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