On interfaces - Morphic Wrappers
Jerry Bell
jdbell at fareselaw.com
Wed Jun 6 12:56:48 UTC 2001
I've always liked playing around with Morphic Wrappers. I'm surprised that
it hasn't migrated into the main release yet- is there any reason it hasn't
been folded in? Typing on air is fun!
Jerry Bell
jdbell at fareselaw.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerardo Richarte [mailto:core.lists.squeak at core-sdi.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 1:43 PM
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> Subject: On interfaces - Morphic Wrappers
>
>
> This days we have a thread on user interfaces, this
> time is about
> how to use Squeak with non-standard input devices, or, more precisely,
> without keyboard. It is not the first time we can enjoy this kind of
> discussions, there have been a lot of them in the list.
> Personally, I love
> to read about UIs.
>
> Today, we can say that once again there is a version of the
> MorphicWrappers available to download. This latest version is ready to
> be used in a Squeak3.1a-4048. It's not a long time since that previous
> update (just 100 updates), but before that it was a little longer (800
> updates).
>
> It's a really tough job to maintain MorphicWrappers (we
> all suffer
> for maintaining packages for squeak up to date...) We almost
> gave up, but
> the team keeps growing and the new people comes with fresh energy to
> maintain the package.
>
> So here it comes, from deep in the heart of the latest
> adopters of
> the MorphicWrappers way of interacting with the World:
>
> We started the project almost 3 years ago with the first version
> of Morphic, in Squeak 2.3 (I'm not really sure when it was).
> MW is today
> an ancient project, but we think it's still current, and even
> a little in
> the future. We´ve been using it continously all this time, and we got
> adicted to them.
>
> Here at core where I work, there is people that learned
> Smalltalk & Squeak using them, and the other day, one of them
> asked what a Workspace
> is! just imagine that!
>
> Don't wait! You have to live the MorphicWrappers
> experience, then, you'll have the experience to say "I don't
> like MWs", but you won't say
> it.
> Go get them at http://mathMorphs.swiki.net/MorphicWrappers
>
> Interfacing Bye!
> Once again, Richie
>
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>
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