Greetings, José!

If I may paraphrase you a bit, Morphic is very powerful for doing unordinary
things.  The fact that "it doesn't 'impose' a set of standards" can indeed
lead to situations where "programs end up being very different one to each
other," but of course Morphic does not //require// that, it simply permits
it.  In some cases, and in some hands, that degree of freedom may be
unnecessary, but it is never inherently undesirable.

The difference is akin to that between a set of rubber stamps and a box of
crayons -- the stamping blocks make it easy to assemble words and phrases,
ensuring readability and uniformity and guiding the user's imagination
within certain limits, while the crayons give free reign to the imagination
but leave the bulk of the responsibility for usefulness or presentability to
the user.

If one is making signs the stamping blocks may be sufficient, but the
crayons can be used for far more than just signs, and can lead to some
rather striking signs as well.

All the best,

Gary

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From: "Pupeno" <pupeno at pupeno.com>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 2:36 AM
Subject: Morphic, I still don't get it...


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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 ?
- 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.
My intention is not to be critic, but to understand, can you please, help me
understand ?
Thanks.
- -- 
Pupeno: pupeno at pupeno.com - http://www.pupeno.com
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