[IDEA] Gtk2.0 and Squeak in the 'real boring world'

Kevin Fisher kgf at golden.net
Thu Jun 20 17:17:38 UTC 2002


On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 11:44:51AM -0500, Aaron wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Kevin Fisher wrote:
> 
> > I believe there was an attempt at creating both Qt and GTK+ bindings for
> > Squeak a few years back...it was called "TalkTalk"...I don't believe the
> > author finished it.  It is an attractive idea, however...sounds like
> > a job for a plugin!
> 
> I think this was back in the 2.1 days.

Wow has it been that long? :)

This is definitely pre-plugins then.

There was also a project called "Cheese" that did something similar
for OS/2...there might be some interesting ideas in that code.


> 
> I wish someone had this archived! AFAIK, it wasn't finished, but there was
> something done- there was code up on his site.  As far as I can tell, he
> may still be with this institution, so I've emailed the only Joerg
> (joerg.NOvandervlies at fernuni-SPAMhagen.de) on their personnel page
> (http://www.informatik.fernuni-hagen.de/import/pi3/personen/index.html).
> 
> This page used to be at:
> http://www.informatik.fernuni-hagen.de/import/pi3/joerg/squeak/
> 
> If you look it up on the Wayback Machine (http://www.archive.org), the
> only mirrored version says "QT and GTK Squeak Smalltalk are no longer
> available. Here's the latest source. Here's the latest image."  Doesn't
> have the source mirrored, unfortunately.
> 
> Aaron
> 

I seem to recall having seen some screenshots of it in action at one point..
it looked pretty cool!




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