I got this message from Frank Lesser, the gent responsible for the
Win32-native Squeak...

This may seem like a pre-reply, but I'd like to say that in my reading of
the list over the last few years, quite a few people have been quite
interested in having native widgets and callbacks.  It's not the direction
of Squeak Central is neccesarily interested in, but having it there would
be a lot of things to a lot of people.

Aaron

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 19:03:57 +0200
From: Frank Lesser <Frank-Lesser at lesser-software.com>
To: reic0024 at d.umn.edu
Subject: RE: [IDEA] Gtk2.0 and Squeak in the 'real boring world'

Hi Aaron,

My answer to the list bounced back and I have almost no time to track
this down.
So please post my answer to the list.

Thanks,
Frank


Aaron,
Ups thanks for the hint about our little obsolete Java-buttons. We have
a text-entry but indeen it need to be reworked.

Native-Widgets are not very popular to the Squeak community. But I was
surprised that the possibility of having a callback feature in squeak
had no resonance.

I agree with Andreas Raab's estimation of 9.5 to add it to Squeak.

Just to clarify a bit our Smalltalk activities:

LSWVST is our Smalltalk which has deep OS-Integration.
Last year we have ported parts of our native-widget library to Squeak (
LSWST-Window bindings ) with the hope and promise to get a sponsoring of
one of our clients.

The work was almost finnished but we didn't get a sponsoring for it.

The main work was to add recursive-callback feature to squeak.

Now we have no resources to work over it ( we are busy with our .NET
Tools ) and don't want to publish it because we still hope to get a
sponsoring.

Regards,
Frank Lesser, www.lesser-software.com