Morphic, I still don't get it...

Pupeno pupeno at pupeno.com
Sun Aug 1 06:36:35 UTC 2004


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I'm trying to understand Morphic and why it is so wonderfull (and how to build 
real applications with it)... but so far, I failed.
I come from the Qt/KDE world, where I built interfaces with a GUI builder, 
called Designer, where I placed buttons, text boxes and anything else into a 
window (widget) and layed it out with a dynamic system. It seems morphic has 
the same dynamic system. I also happened to have the concept of actions, a 
program have actions and the items in the menus are some graphical 
representation of those actions, and the toolbars other representations. But 
Morphic doesn't seem to have the concept of menubars nor toolbars... am I 
wrong ?
- From my point of view Morphic seems very powerfull to do very weird things, 
nice things but weird... am I wrong ? I mean, you can have nice things done 
with text in curves and so on, but most applications don't use that.
Another thing that I don't like about Morphic is that it doesn't 'impose' a 
set of standards so the programs end up being very different one to each 
other, colores, arrangements, buttons, etc, etc.
My intention is not to be critic, but to understand, can you please, help me 
understand ?
Thanks.
- -- 
Pupeno: pupeno at pupeno.com - http://www.pupeno.com
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