Morphic, I still don't get it...
Doug Way
dway at mailcan.com
Mon Aug 9 20:19:24 UTC 2004
On Monday, August 2, 2004, at 11:13 AM, lex at cc.gatech.edu wrote:
> Todd Blanchard <tblanchard at mac.com> wrote:
>> This is an apt analogy - to take it a bit farther though - some of us
>> really can't draw and need those rubber stamps. When viewed along
>> with
>> other kits the collection of stamps is rather odd and several common
>> forms are missing.
>
> Everyone, be aware that there are also "rubber stamps" available; they
> simply aren't in the main image. Check out things like Bob's UI,
> Prefab,
> or Zurgle.
>
> "GUI Building Tools"
> http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1576
>
> It is probably worth picking one of these and making it available
> in a "full" image in the future, along with a good Play With Me that
> shows
> how to use it. IMHO, we should accept into the "full" image the first
> GUI
> library whose maintainer promises to build and maintain a Play With Me
> for it.
Agreed. Even if someone merely creates a working Play With Me and
doesn't promise to maintain it, that may be good enough, as long as
it's in good working condition to start out with. There is substantial
demand for something like this, so I think if one of these toolkits
gets into Full, then it would probably generate enough popularity that
it would get maintained by somebody.
One lesson here is that incremental improvements are a good thing for
packages like this. (Like how SqueakMap has evolved.) I know that
Doug Rollwitz was working on a major overhaul to BobsUI, which was
never released, and that seemed to stall adoption of BobsUI.
- Doug
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