Morphic, I still don't get it...

Karl Ramberg karl.ramberg at chello.se
Sun Aug 1 15:45:58 UTC 2004


http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/
Search the swiki for morphic tutorials. 


Pupeno wrote:
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> I'm trying to understand Morphic and why it is so wonderfull (and how to build
> real applications with it)... but so far, I failed.
> I come from the Qt/KDE world, where I built interfaces with a GUI builder,
> called Designer, where I placed buttons, text boxes and anything else into a
> window (widget) and layed it out with a dynamic system. It seems morphic has
> the same dynamic system. I also happened to have the concept of actions, a
> program have actions and the items in the menus are some graphical
> representation of those actions, and the toolbars other representations. But
> Morphic doesn't seem to have the concept of menubars nor toolbars... am I
> wrong ?

I don't think there are any specific menubar widget in morphic. 

> - From my point of view Morphic seems very powerfull to do very weird things,
> nice things but weird... am I wrong ? I mean, you can have nice things done
> with text in curves and so on, but most applications don't use that.
> Another thing that I don't like about Morphic is that it doesn't 'impose' a
> set of standards so the programs end up being very different one to each
> other, colores, arrangements, buttons, etc, etc.

I miss that sometimes, some guidelines would be nice.

> My intention is not to be critic, but to understand, can you please, help me
> understand 

There are several projects that try to bring some familiar looking 
widgets to morphic, look at the swiki.

Karl



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