Flexible squeak - a call for extension mechanisms

goran.krampe at bluefish.se goran.krampe at bluefish.se
Mon Jul 14 15:03:02 UTC 2003


Daniel Vainsencher <danielv at netvision.net.il> wrote:
[SNIP]
> 3. UIs - Claus Gittinger, the author of Smalltalk/X, made a comment once
> that having a GUI builder gives him a lot of leverage, because it
> enables him to quickly implement UIs for any cool stuff he ports from
> other Smalltalks. I think we need a UI builder for the same reasons, and
> if the UI builder creates readable descriptions of the UI, it could also
> let us write UIs that are common to MVC and Morphic (and whatever comes
> next) just once. 

For inspiration - read my old article on StableSqueak which actually did
some of this (built MVC and Morphic UIs from XML descriptions):

http://anakin.bluefish.se:8000/sqworld

regards, Göran



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