MorphicDesigner and Maui (was MorphicDesigner (was Re: [squeak-dev] Installer/metacello/squeak4.5 issue due to change of gemstone to gemtalksystems))

Casey Ransberger casey.obrien.r at gmail.com
Thu Sep 19 02:33:40 UTC 2013


It (MD) has a spreadsheet style view right? That alone seems to suggest
that it's worth supporting in my view if we have anyone around to do it...
the spreadsheet is the most broadly recognizable and intuitive programming
metaphor I've seen (lots of people who use them don't even realize they're
programming, etc.)

FWIW, when I tried checking it out, it either didn't work in Squeak or I
was missing something about how to use it.

WRT Maui: the ST-80 inspector is nice, but I think there's a lot more it
could do. Maui is worth looking at, whether we integrate parts of it, or
pillage it for its excellent ideas. One of the things on my longer term
list is to bring something like Maui to Cuis, so I might be compelled to
contribute here once I've got how-I'm-paying-rent nailed down.


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:14 PM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

> So around a month ago I reported problems when trying to load the
> MorphicDesigner
> (
> https://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hirschfeld/trac/SqueakCommunityProjects/wiki/designer)
> project. I tried it again this morning and aside from the rather long and
> windy process of installing metacello and then morphicdesigner it all went
> well.
>
> MD is quite interesting. It's a kinda-traditional UI builder, in contrast
> to Chris Muller's 'Maui' project for example, but has some nice touches.
> There are quite a few extra classes loaded as part of the install and I
> have no idea right now if they're actually essential or not - is an
> animation framework really required for such a tool?  It's quite a nice
> framework though…
>
> I wish I had time to really dig into both this and Maui, but since I don't
> I want to wave the flag a bit to see if someone else can be Tom Sawyered
> into evaluating them. Perhaps there are synergies that might encourage us
> to use a bit of both? Should we work towards making sure such a tool is
> fully supported as a standard item for Squeak?
>
> tim
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