[Seaside] [ANN] SeasideXUL

[Pavel Krivanek]

download here:
http://comtalk.eu/public/pub/SeasideXUL/SeasideXUL.zip

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Milan Zimmermann
<milan.zimmermann at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>  I have just a few weeks ago started to consider XULRunner for my next
>  application, so this is really exciting. I was wondering if it would be
>  possible to make your image available to play with the XUL user interface
>  demo port...
>
>  Thanks Milan
>
>
>
>  On 2008 April 13, Pavel Krivanek wrote:
>  > Hi all,
>  >
>  > I started the project named SeasideXUL. This package enables to
>  > generate XUL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL) code in Seaside 2.9 so
>  > now we can create applications with standard look&feel directly in
>  > Smalltalk with the power of Seaside.
>  >
>  > Pictures are worth more than thousand words:
>  > http://comtalk.eu/public/pub/SeasideXUL/screenshots/
>  >
>  > XUL can be displayed directly in FireFox or there's a project named
>  > XULRunner that enables to run it as a standalone application (see
>  > screenshots, the application then can use own shortcuts etc.) but
>  > still in thin-client/server architecture. Standard HTML or SVG code
>  > can be embedded in XUL page.
>  >
>  > I had to created ajax-based call/answer mechanism with continuations
>  > for SeasideXUL. The complete port of XUL Periodic Table
>  > (http://www.hevanet.com/acorbin/xul/top.xul) is included as the
>  > demonstration application. However lot of next things wait for
>  > implementation (e.g. some alternative to forms) or need to be made
>  > more robust and easily usable (whole ajax part).
>  >
>  > Seaside 2.9 is quite hard to load and SeasideXUL doesn't reflect some
>  > latest changes in this package (Seaside 2.9 is still under heavy
>  > development) so if you want to try SeasideXUL on your own in this
>  > stage of development, do not await a nice walk through a rosarium. It
>  > was developed on this set of packages:
>  >
>  > Scriptaculous-Components (Scriptaculous-Components-lr.41)
>  > Scriptaculous-Core (Scriptaculous-Core-lr.18)
>  > Scriptaculous-Squeak-Core (Scriptaculous-Squeak-Core-lr.1)
>  > Scriptaculous-Tests (Scriptaculous-Tests-lr.21)
>  > Seaside-Adapters-Core (Seaside-Adapters-Core-pmm.3)
>  > Seaside-Core (Seaside-Core-lr.120)
>  > Seaside-Development-Core (Seaside-Development-Core-lr.20)
>  > Seaside-Examples (Seaside-Examples-pmm.1)
>  > Seaside-Squeak-Adapters (Seaside-Squeak-Adapters-mu.7)
>  > Seaside-Squeak-Core (Seaside-Squeak-Core-dkh.38)
>  > Seaside-Squeak-Development (Seaside-Squeak-Development-pmm.10)
>  > Seaside-Squeak-Kom (Seaside-Squeak-Kom-pmm.13)
>  > Seaside-Tests (Seaside-Tests-dkh.102)
>  > Seaside-Utils-Core (Seaside-Utils-Core-lr.7)
>  >
>  > Scriptaculous dependency should be removed in next versions.
>  >
>  > Mozilla seems to be pretty strong platform provider and future
>  > versions of FireFox should be based directly on the XULRunner. I hope
>  > that we did the important step to gain multi-platform and
>  > multi-implementation user interface framework for Smalltalk.
>  >
>  > Cheers,
>  > -- Pavel
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