Using Squeak for general desktop development

ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Tue Feb 10 11:06:49 UTC 2004


On 10 févr. 04, at 11:34, Mike Flippin wrote:

> I would be satisfied with just being able to open a small GUI app 
> written for Squeak without the whole Squeak UI loading. Just have the 
> Window show up and be able to point to it and say "This is a GUI 
> example written in Smalltalk!" Is this possible? If there's any good 
> FAQ or anything that addresses these sort of topics please let me know 
> as I'll go there rather than take up people's time :)

for that use Dolphin Smalltalk. They have native widgets. But for me 
widgets is not the key aspect of Smalltalk.
You should show the incremental compilation, hot debugging...and the 
inspector.

A widget is just a matter of money and engineering and smalltalk is not 
about that. The essence is elegance and uniformity

>
> Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:34:42PM -0500, Mike Flippin wrote:
>>
>>> that. I haven't been able to find any documentation on Squeak that 
>>> shows how to use it to make desktop software that uses native GUI 
>>> toolkits like QT, GTK+, Carbon and MFC.
>>>
>>
>> I'd like to point that what most people seem to want is not native GUI
>> toolkits, but a GUI that looks native.  If you can have that and the
>> fexibility a squeakish one would provide, everyone would be happy, I'd
>> think.
>>
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