Windows maker

Timothy Reaves treaves at silverfields.com
Wed Aug 8 13:41:47 UTC 2001


On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 00:16:33 -0400
Doug Way <dway at riskmetrics.com> wrote:

> 
> On Tuesday, August 7, 2001, at 08:31 PM, Timothy Reaves wrote:
> 
> > 	Is there a GUI toolkit for Squeak?  Is Morphic the proper choice 
> > for a forms-based appliation?
> 
> This is covered in the FAQ.  There are a few GUI toolkits available 
> (mostly Morphic based)... see the GUI Building Tools item on the Squeak 
> FAQ at http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/squeakFaq .
> 

	I should have been a little more verbose.

	I saw that page in the FAQ, but most of what is there is very weak, and no longer seems to be under development.  They look to be things that people have started, then ran out of steam.  I know how that goes.  And for the FAQ to use the term 'ala WindowsMaker' is a bit too much! ;)

	The XML UI Spec Builder looks promising.  There is a GUI builder for Java that simply lets you design the GUI via drag-and-drop, use a property editor to set properties & callbacks, then it writes it out to an XML file.  At run time, a small class reads the XML tree and builds the window.  I can't determine exaclty how XML UI Spec Builder is inteded to be used, as the documentation is non-existent.  Is it still under development?  Does it allow DnD UI design?

	Thanks!




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