Morphic GUI Builder?

Chris Reuter cgreuter at calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Thu Dec 3 05:13:46 UTC 1998


Hi all,

Lately, I've been getting really sick of hand-coding user-interface
objects.  The first couple were fun but now it's just tedious.  I've
been toying with the idea of writing a GUI-builder for Morphic.
Actually, all that's required is 1) the ability to add submorphs to a
particular Morph from the menu and 2) extend the "make own subclass"
option to also generate an "initialize" method recreating the Morph's
current state.  I could then layout GUIs in the World and the code
to recreate it would be automatically generated.

The first is trivial to implement but the second is less-so.  However,
it looks like there's some support for this sort of thing in Morphic
via the method #printConstructorOn:indent: and #constructorString.
So, before I go reimplementing class Wheel, could somebody tell me if
the code I want already exists or is in the works?



			       --Chris





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