[Newbies] greetings, looking for a simple tutorial

[Troy Brumley]

Thanks, I think I'll drill into TestRunner and break out my old  
Squeak book as another person suggested.  I'm not a ST newbie, just a  
Squeak newbie, and it seems that UIs are different in all  
dialects :)  I pretty much want to ignore MVC and look into morphic.


On May 24, 2006, at 1:08 AM, Herbert König wrote:

> Hello Troy,
>
> TB> I've never found a straight forward "this is how you make a simple
> TB> UI" tutorial for Squeak.  Does anyone have a pointer?  The sort of
> TB> thing I am looking for would explain how to build a UI with a  
> couple
> TB> of input fields, a couple of buttons, and a display field for  
> output.
>
> What helped me a lot was the PluggableMorphsDemo. It's a Squeak
> project on PluggableListMorph, PluggableButtonMorph and
> PluggableListMorph.
>
> I forgot where I got it from, so I attached it, after checking it
> works in 3.8.
>
> Next step was learning how to build a UI programmatically. I learned
> from TestRunner openAsMorph. This was 3.6 time. All was one linear
> method. Nowadays its much better factored and IMHO much less
> comprehensible.
>
> I suggest you get that 3.6 image, otherwise drop me a mail and I send
> you a fileout of that method to look at in your favourite text editor.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Herbert                            mailto:herbertkoenig at gmx.net
> <PluggableMorphsDemo.pr>
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