Morphic and business apps

Doug Way dway at mailcan.com
Mon Feb 7 00:52:12 UTC 2005


On Feb 6, 2005, at 2:12 PM, Ruedi Steinmann wrote:

> I've started using morphic a few weeks ago. There is hardly any
> documentation around. You'll spend much time on figuring out how things
> work. But at some time things suddenly become easier and then 
> everything
> is possible.

If you haven't already, be sure to look through the Morphic page on the 
swiki for more tutorials, etc:

http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/30

Of course it's a mixed bag and some of it is old, but there is a lot of 
stuff there.

> On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 01:15, Guenther Schmidt wrote:
>> ...
>> How *is* Morphic, I mean how is it usable for writing, well business
>> apps with a great UI?
>>
>> What I've seen is Morpic and Squeak used for Etoys, drawing and such 
>> but
>> I'm not sure if it's suitable for business apps. There is the bank
>> account tutorial and that's indeed a business app, but only showing
>> business logic, and no UI.

See the GUI Building Tools page on the swiki:

http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1576

Again, this is a mixed bag of several UI toolkits, some old, and only a 
few of them were ever actually used/developed by more than one person.  
wxSqueak has the most development activity recently, but BobsUI was an 
everything-in-Squeak UI toolkit used by several people including 
myself.  But it needs a committed maintainer to bring it forward from 
Squeak 3.4.  Or, you might look at one of the other ones to see if it's 
something you can build from.

- Doug




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