How Do You Do Business Apps? (Squeak/Pro Proposal)

Lex Spoon lex at cc.gatech.edu
Sat Feb 26 02:02:52 UTC 2000


Joey Gibson <joeyGibson at mindspring.com> wrote:

> 	I don't think that's entirely what he meant. I'm the one who started
> this thread, and while I've gotten some good, albeit
> not-what-I-wanted-to-hear, responses, I have to pipe up again. I was
> asking about how to create textfields and the like for "business" apps.
> I was not looking for a GUI builder ala Dolphin. I don't have to have
> that. (When I started with Java nigh on 4 years ago, there were no GUI
> builders. So I built my UIs by hand. I did it that way until last year
> when I finally found a GUI builder that actually made it easier for me.)
> I would be happy just to know how to create a "form" in Squeak, put a
> "textfield" on it and have a "button" that does something meaningful
> when I click on it. That's all I was looking for; no VB here!
> 

Well, you could look at the IRC client.  It has a ton of
text-field-based forms.  The code isn't as smooth as it could be, but
it's certainly possible and not really that hard.


Lex





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