Hi all,
I was just watching the Extremadura Squeak video, and noticed that everyone was using the Gnome file browsers to add their images to Squeak. This got me thinking about more self-contained functionality, and made me curious to know if anyone was working on a more "visual" file browser, or even support for common network filesystems for Squeak itself? I realize that the idea of files goes against the Smalltalk philosophy, but since we do unfortunately live in a world of files, it probably makes sense?
Thanks all, -Wendell
In fact, I have developed an image browser, that can read gif, png, svg and svgz (using the SVGreader made by Gary Chambers) for a project I am making in Extremadura. It works in a 3.8 image without problem. Attached is an screenshot. I am developing it on Linux, but I have tested it a little bit in a windows machine and works ok. I don't have a mac available, but it should work there too.
The image browser is between some other code I have developed for this project and, by now, I don't have time enought to split it from the rest of the project, but if anybody wants to test it I can send the whole monticello package. Regards.
El sáb, 08-10-2005 a las 10:33 -0500, Wendell III escribió:
Hi all,
I was just watching the Extremadura Squeak video, and noticed that everyone was using the Gnome file browsers to add their images to Squeak. This got me thinking about more self-contained functionality, and made me curious to know if anyone was working on a more "visual" file browser, or even support for common network filesystems for Squeak itself? I realize that the idea of files goes against the Smalltalk philosophy, but since we do unfortunately live in a world of files, it probably makes sense?
Thanks all, -Wendell
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Heh. Amazingly enough, I usually find stuff in the vanilla Squeak file browser much quicker than in the Windows variant. I dunnow what it is, but something was done right in the design of that UI and any souping up will probably kill it (one of the reasons I walked away from Gnome/KDE/... was that in their futile attempts to mimick Windows they killed most of the performance and usability in the original versions...).
Anyway, to me the biggest hurdle to using the file browser is the awful performance of the Morphic tree control.
Just my 2 eurocents. YMMV.
On 10/8/05, Wendell III wendell@meetro.com wrote:
Hi all,
I was just watching the Extremadura Squeak video, and noticed that everyone was using the Gnome file browsers to add their images to Squeak. This got me thinking about more self-contained functionality, and made me curious to know if anyone was working on a more "visual" file browser, or even support for common network filesystems for Squeak itself? I realize that the idea of files goes against the Smalltalk philosophy, but since we do unfortunately live in a world of files, it probably makes sense?
Thanks all, -Wendell
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