Folks -

>>That sounds pretty great! I'm not sure that I'm up to it--I've never
>>written anything big in Smalltalk and I don't know anything about Morphic
>>or even know if it is far enough along--but I'm sure interested in thinking
>>a lot more about it and trying to decide about the feasibility.
>
>Actually I've never done anything with Morphic either...or really much in
>the way of UI in Squeak :)

F.Y.I...

Anyone who is serious about building an application like a mail reader (ie fairly simple UI consisting of text, lists and buttons) should know the following:

If you make a normal model/view division, and use Squeak's pluggable views in MVC, it should only take about an hour to get it running in Morphic after it works in MVC.  To a greater or lesser extent, all of the current Squeak programming apps (browsers, debugger, file list, change sorters, etc) work this way.  For most of them there is just one method that differs -- namely the one that sets up the view structure and opens the window.  The fileList is one of the simpler examples to look at in this regard.

This is also the simplest path for porting code written for other smalltalks, since most of them start out with a similar architecture and set of views.

	- Dan