A Squeak PDA

Aaron J Reichow reic0024 at d.umn.edu
Fri Nov 9 19:27:27 UTC 2001


On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Kevin Fisher wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 12:31:34AM -0600, Aaron J Reichow wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > Have you tried it or just looked at the screenshots?  I'm afraid I don't
> > follow you on the similarities with WinDOS.  It has frames and title bars,
> > I suppose.  And widgets!  I'm talking mostly about the window management
> > scheme- no overlapping windows, tiling.  I've tried it on a PDA, and it
> > works out quite well.  A way to multitask on a PDA.
>
> The site picogui.org isn't resolving for me so I can't see the
> screenshots...is the window layout similar in style to Oberon, by chance
> (ie non-overlapping "frames")?  It could be interesting to have a PDA
> using such a scheme, combined with the virtual scrolling viewport.

Yup, it is kind of like the way Oberon manages windows.  However, I think
in the Oberon system, at least in recentish releases, you have the option.
If http://picogui.org (no www), try http://pgui.sf.net.

Regards,
Aaron

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