Hi again!
---Markus Kohler markus_kohler@bbn.hp.com wrote:
Gvran Hultgren wrote:
[SNIP]
- Is there a way (in that case, excuse my ignorance) or would it
not
be great if there was a way to use Squeak as a script language for scripting purposes like Python & Perl are used today?
Obviously this was already possible, interesting, I will play around with this.
A sidenote: when trying to find this out I looked around the doc-swiki and even tried searching for "headless" in Squeak, but found nothing. Is there a place where I should have looked? Somewhere the command line options of the VM should be described and perhaps some notes about using Squeak as a scriptengine - yes, I know - I will write a page about it myself under the doc-swiki instead of whining! :-)
- Would it not be interesting to be able to develop fullblown
commercial GUI apps with Squeak?
This would certainly make Squeak my personal choice for "hobby projects", but as it looks now, Squeaks UI is just not right for
that.
Do not get me wrong here, I think Morphic looks truly cool, and I certainly would like to stay within the Smalltalk paradigm as much
as
possible. I have heard about Cheese, but I have not seen it. I have recently discovered wxWindows (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/julian.smart/wxwin/) and if it could be done - a "wrap-up" of wxWindows from within Squeak - looks like it would open up a lot of deployment possibilites. Do you think it
would
be doable/useful? As above, I would like to work within Squeak and then, when it comes to deployment, choose to deploy using a
wxWindows
library for a specifik platform.
As I said already sometime ago I would vote for a GTK or QT based Squeak.
Hmmm, what about the MacOS? :-) It seems to me (without having looked hands-on at the products mentioned) that wxWindows is a wrapper around different toolkits making them "look alike" and could in the near future include both Gtk and Qt. Are there technical reasons for going straight at Qt or Gtk?
Otherwise it seemed to me that wxWindows would be a more "open" solution with different choices available. Gtk seems limited since it only (am I wrong?) supports XWindows. Qt is more cross plattform but does not include Motif/MacOS/BeOS etc, and I do not know if they ever plan to.
Opinions?
regards, Gran
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On Wed 07 Oct, Göran wrote:
A sidenote: when trying to find this out I looked around the doc-swiki and even tried searching for "headless" in Squeak, but found nothing. Is there a place where I should have looked? Somewhere the command line options of the VM should be described and perhaps some notes about using Squeak as a scriptengine - yes, I know
- I will write a page about it myself under the doc-swiki instead of
whining! :-)
The getAttribute stuff is already documented at http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak.314 Feel free to add more to it.
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