Flexible squeak - a call for extension mechanisms

Daniel Vainsencher danielv at netvision.net.il
Tue Jul 15 11:27:00 UTC 2003


Hi Goran.

Ach, it pains me to remember how much work was done there and we're
still not benefitting from. Maybe some of that code could be published,
updated and used. Do you know who originally wrote the XMLSpec stuff?

Daniel

goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
> Daniel Vainsencher <danielv at netvision.net.il> wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > 3. UIs - Claus Gittinger, the author of Smalltalk/X, made a comment once
> > that having a GUI builder gives him a lot of leverage, because it
> > enables him to quickly implement UIs for any cool stuff he ports from
> > other Smalltalks. I think we need a UI builder for the same reasons, and
> > if the UI builder creates readable descriptions of the UI, it could also
> > let us write UIs that are common to MVC and Morphic (and whatever comes
> > next) just once. 
> 
> For inspiration - read my old article on StableSqueak which actually did
> some of this (built MVC and Morphic UIs from XML descriptions):
> 
> http://anakin.bluefish.se:8000/sqworld
> 
> regards, Göran



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