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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wow, Jim. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Impressive work. This goes into the direction I'm
looking for. I'll have a closer look at it. I've also never tried Morphic and
will do so soon.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Andre</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jb@speed.net href="mailto:jb@speed.net">Jim Benson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org
href="mailto:squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org">The general-purpose Squeak
developers list</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 07, 2004 7:25
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: UI Look & Feel
support</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Andre,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here's some screenshots of a Windows XP skin for
Squeak: <A
href="http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2469">http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2469</A>.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's available on SqueakMap. It uses emulated
widgets analagous to VW. I wrote it a couple of years ago, and have kept
it updated it through Squeak 3.6.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here's the project page: <A
href="http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2286">http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/2286</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've used this package every day for over two
years, and have rarely experienced any bugs. There's a couple of niggles left,
but since I'm currently building a large application for a client using
this package most of these will be cleaned up relatively soon.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jim Benson</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=andre.schnoor@web.de href="mailto:andre.schnoor@web.de">Andre
Schnoor</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org
href="mailto:squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org">The general-purpose
Squeak developers list</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 07, 2004 12:27
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> UI Look & Feel
support</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm an old Smalltalker and have been around
with st80 since 1988. Currently I'm doing some work with VW, which is
absolutely great, but too expensive for an early stage startup project.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I like the openness and portability of Squeak
and am evaluating if it could be a platform for serious development and
deployment of "shrink wrapped" end user applications on Win32, MacOS 9, OS X
and Linux (knowledge based music composition in my case, hell of a complex
domain with a high demand on graphical user interaction). </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I could not yet find any conventional UI and
Look & Feel support for squeak. With "conventional UI" I mean something
that an average user can instantly recognize as something he is already
familiar with. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I experienced that users decide within 30
seconds after opening a new application if they stay with it or go away. So
I believe they should better see something familiar ;-)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Where can I find resources for such kind of UI
for Squeak? Do they exist?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any help is appreciated.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Andre</FONT></DIV>
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