[Newbie] GUI Development
Lex Spoon
lex at cc.gatech.edu
Thu Nov 13 19:56:40 UTC 2003
"mwgrant2001" <mwgrant2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Lex wrote:
> > Go to the Swiki. Look under "Documentation" and then "Morphic".
> You
> > will find a lot of tutorials and overviews about Morphic. If these
> seem
> > lacking, and you can think of something specific that would help,
> then
> > by all means post your request either to the page or to this mailing
> > list. Until then, however, I feel obliged to leave you with a
> >RTFM. I ...
>
> Bad reply here. There ain't no FM--atleast to anyone who has had
> experience with 'real' manuals as opposed to code scraps slopped up
> onto a swiki. Of course you and other heavy contributors deserve a
> more respectful response than the preceding sentence. But the person
> asking the question deserves more respect too. (Wanting to get
> promoted to the 'R' mail help listings, huh? :o))
>
I didn't mean any disrespect. They asked a question and I posted where
to find answers. We certainly do have FM's on the topic of learning to
use Morphic.
Dustin Sallings <dustin at spy.net> wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2003, at 13:21, Lex Spoon wrote:
>
> > I don't really understand why there are so many threads on the mailing
> > list saying we need more Morphic docs or more Squeak-intro docs. There
> > are tons of them.
>
> Because it's that non-obvious. Many of the tutorials show you ways to
> build etoys or script together morphic type things, but it seems that
> it's just more complicated than it should be.
I don't understand. Looking at the page, I see that most of the
tutorials are not about EToys and the scripting system, even though some
of them are.
"Morphic"
http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/30
-Lex
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