Anyone here use Prefab?

reic0024 at d.umn.edu reic0024 at d.umn.edu
Fri Aug 2 04:03:29 UTC 2002


good day all,

The recent discussion about groups of radio-buttons made me wonder, why
do I feel like I'm the only one who uses Prefab around here? To solve
the problem of a group of radio buttons, you simply draw a drame and put
the radio buttons inside of it.  I remember you have to do something
similar in REALbasic, and probably VB (guessing).  

Yet, prefab doesn't do everything.  Right now, it has widgets for a
button, check button, multi-line text area,  single-line edit field,
frame, label, list-box radio-button and scrollbar.  That's fairly
comprehensive, and I use it for whipping stuff together when I would
usually use something like REALbasic.

Is there anyone working on this still?  I plan on adding some widgets,
but I don't want to duplicate any work.  I think someone on this list
said they were working on beeinf up BobsUI, but I don't think anyone is
working on Prefab.  With Prefab, you can draw your UI and generate a
build-method.  Absolutely delicious.

http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~cgreuter/prefab.html

The truly incredibly thing about Prefab, unlike a lot of packages,
especially GUI ones, is that it works on Squeak 2.7 up to 3.2 (by my own
testing- probably works on 3.3a, maybe 2.6!).

I think it being early has taken a toll on my college-aged brain-

Regards,
Aaron



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