On Nov 11, 2003, at 13:21, Lex Spoon wrote:

> I
> don't really understand why there are so many threads on the mailing
> list saying we need more Morphic docs or more Squeak-intro docs.  There
> are tons of them.

	Because it's that non-obvious.  Many of the tutorials show you ways to 
build etoys or script together morphic type things, but it seems that 
it's just more complicated than it should be.

	I think that the number of people asking for information indicates a 
problem.  eToys is very easy.  Smalltalk itself is very easy, but 
creating a morphic application (i.e. the browser) is far more difficult 
than one would expect.

	I'd like to make an application that graphically displays information 
gathered from around my network.  Gathering the information is quite 
easy, but how do I create the reusable morphic graphic widgets I need 
to display the various stuff I get?  All I've managed to get from 
tutorials is how to draw a picture using existing morphs and attach 
scripts to it.

	I'm sure there's stuff I haven't read, and I'm sure there's 
experimentation I haven't done.  However, I think the information 
people are looking for would look more like the cocoa tutorials:  
everything you need to create a proper application in a few easy steps.

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Dustin Sallings