Jack Williams wrote:

I am looking for a tutorial that covers basic window management: how to put a window on the screen on the screen, draw a form, gather data from the fields and return the user reponses to the application.

I can find morphic tutorials that show how to animate something and do cool stuff, but not how to do the basics.

I am new to smalltalk and any help is appreciated.

Hi Jack.

It seems that nobody has replied yet, so I'll insert my snide remarks ;-).

Firstly, I tried Morphic and gave up. It's hard work to get going and it's harder work to make something behave the way you want. While I eventually got an application going, I wasted a lot of time working around "quirks".

Instead, I'd recommend that you learn and use ToolBuilder. It's a multiplatform UI API. To get it, add this as a Monticello repository:

MCHttpRepository location: 'http://squeaksource.com/ToolBuilder' user: 'user' password: ''

(Keep fiddling with this until it works - I tried without a username and it opened up a blank window (?!) ).

Then load up "ToolBuilder-Kernel", "ToolBuilder-Specs", "ToolBuilder-Morphic" and "ToolBuilder-examples".

Then look for "buildWith:" methods in the examples. That's where most of the UI code is. I'm not sure if there's any documentation out there, but feel free to ask about anything here.

Regards, Michael.