But does it have tests?

=jason

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 22:25, yampa at mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> 
> On 14 Jul 2002 22:11:08 +0200 Chris Burkert
> <christian.burkert at s2000.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> 
> >>Hi there
> 
> >> In the last 2 Months I tried out Squeak and was >>it. But I (and all
> other's I talked about it) >>missed a powerfull tool
> >>for building a GUI. It would be great for Squeak >>to provide such a tool
> >>and I'm sure many people would take a look at >>Squeak today, instead of
> >>Java tomorrow. 
> 
> Regards
> Chris Burkert
> 
> Chris;
> 
> I am working on a new version of BobsUI that will do a lot of what you are
> asking for.  BobsUI is Squeak's solution for "rectangular programming", or in
> other words regular business programming. 
> 
> In the next version of BobsUI:
> 
> - The previous versions widgets are mostly intact.
> 
> - Added widgets: 
>     Check Boxes
>     Radio Buttons
>     Drop Down Lists
>     Spin Buttons
>     Sliders
>     Menu Bars
>     Menus
>     Panels
>     
> - Most construction is done with drag and drop, but within a Squeak way of
> doing things.  I use  flaps and stacks for my widget palettes, for instance.
> 
> - The windows are composed, and written to a window spec using XML.  They are
> built from XML with a builder, and can be re-edited.  This area of BobsUI is
> pretty similar to the VisualWorks way of writing window specs. 
> 
> - A split between development and runtime, so the runtime user is not able to
> manipulate the widgets.
> 
> - Themes/Skins can be created fairly cleanly with a moderate amount of effort.
>  The XML specs are not specific to any class, so implementing a new builder
> class and/or adding new widgets can create a new look from the same spec.
> 
> 
> Mostly, all this is working now. I have a couple of months to go yet filling
> in details, cleanup, and documentation before I would consider it ready for an
> alpha release.   When I finish this release, it will still have some things
> missing, but it will be one or two versions away from a GUI builder that is as
> good as any other product's GUI builder.  
> 
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