UI Models

Gary McGovern gary.play at btopenworld.com
Fri Feb 15 20:10:43 UTC 2002


Thanks Leandro,
That's something I've seen often and wondered what it was. How do I learn that ?
Gary

15/02/02 06:07:36, Leandro Caniglia <caniglia at dm.uba.ar> wrote:

>Gary McGovern wrote:
>> Are there any other UI paradigums ?
>
>What about direct manipulation of objects with
>MorphicWrappers (aka MathMorphs)? In our experience MWs are
>the best way to get the taste of direct manipulation: no
>workspaces, no inspectors, no browsers, no applications.
>Objects exposed as they are, that's the feeling.
>
>/Leandro
>
>
>Gary McGovern wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm looking to categorise for myself the various UI paradigms available to Squeak. As far as I 
know
>> there is:
>> 
>> a)Domain model with orchestrating instance and application model with toolkit (morphic).
>> 
>> b)As above without the toolkit.(mvc and morphic)
>> 
>> c)Direct manipulation with scripting.  No domain model.
>> 
>> Does anyone anticipate that the direct manipulation with scripting will be used in business 
computing
>> or is it expected to be in the personal computing realm only ?
>> 
>> Pluggable UIs aren't so clear to me. Am I right in thinking that pluggable components fit directly 
to
>> objects within the domain model without an orchestrating instance and application model ? I've 
been
>> doing it that way but feel a little guilt as if I'm cheating :-)
>> 
>> Are there any other UI paradigums ?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Gary
>
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