Timothy Reaves wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 00:16:33 -0400
> Doug Way <dway at riskmetrics.com> wrote:
> 
> > This is covered in the FAQ.  There are a few GUI toolkits available
> > (mostly Morphic based)... see the GUI Building Tools item on the Squeak
> > FAQ at http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/squeakFaq .
> >
> 
>         I should have been a little more verbose.
> 
>         I saw that page in the FAQ, but most of what is there is very weak, and no longer seems to be under development.  They look to be things that people have started, then ran out of steam.  I know how that goes.  And for the FAQ to use the term 'ala WindowsMaker' is a bit too much! ;)

Ah, ok.  Yeah, a lot of the things on that page are not being updated with newer Squeak versions.  It would be nice one of those toolkits emerged as a popular choice, with folks actively using it and keeping it up to date.  Actually, BobsUI has been used by more than one person (which is probably not true of some the others :) ), and has been updated to work with Squeak 3.0, at least.

>         The XML UI Spec Builder looks promising.  There is a GUI builder for Java that simply lets you design the GUI via drag-and-drop, use a property editor to set properties & callbacks, then it writes it out to an XML file.  At run time, a small class reads the XML tree and builds the window.  I can't determine exaclty how XML UI Spec Builder is inteded to be used, as the documentation is non-existent.  Is it still under development?  Does it allow DnD UI design?

I don't know too much about it.  I believe it is being used within the Stable Squeak project, though.

- Doug Way
  dway at riskmetrics.com