Morphic programming

Giuliano Mega giuliano at ime.usp.br
Wed Sep 14 01:08:16 UTC 2005


There are times I wish I could just clone the freakin' morphs and
override the relevant methods in a per-instance basis. :-)
Sigh. 

Anyway, have you tried Prefab? It used to work well.

http://map1.squeakfoundation.org/sm/package/09ba7017-d9bd-47a4-bc28-a37f4c492d2d

Regards,

Giuliano

On 9/13/05, Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene <edgardec2001 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> Enrico Schwass puso en su mail :
> 
> > Hello
> >
> > First, New to smalltalk and squeak I wrote some small methods to learn
> > about the language. It was irritating but fun using browsers instead of
> > emacs and using an image instead of a file. Learning new stuff is always
> > a good idea. Thanks to all squeakers for let me play on their ground :)
> >
> > What I miss is a consistent GUI toolkit. I am sure there is one but I
> > have not found it so for. I tried BobsUI but I got errors on Squeak 3.8
> > as i tried to file in. I guess there is a built in. So what have I to do
> > if I wanna develope an application with dialog windows, buttons, entry
> > fields, listboxes etc? I am familiar with TK and other toolkits.
> > I saw the rolodex example using a book widget. Thats a start.
> > But whats about a spreadsheet-like widget (you can call it table or
> > matrix like too)?
> >
> > Last week I ordered a squeak book. Its not here yet. Shipping from the
> > US needs some time. And I am not sure if it describes the current state
> > of morphic UI.
> >
> > I hope someone can give me some hints
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Enno
> 
> Welcome Enno:
> Good an bad news.
> Squeak is a moving target, 3.9 is on work and change a lot from 3.8.
> So some old good friends as BobsUI have a difficult time or not work at all
> in 3.8 , as you found. ( I investigate why and see If have a solution)
> In SM , that is SqueakMap exist one package named SVI what could interest
> you, no for UI building.
> UI building as commercial cousins don't exist in Squeak, but wise and
> dedicated members are cooking some support what eventual lead to this.
> So you have the chance to do history.:-)
> 
> In Argentina exist a "beginners only" group named SqueakRos , mostly Spanish
> , but with many what understand English and with others Smalltalk
> background.
> If you wish, send mail off list.
> 
> Edgar
> 
> Edgar
> 
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