Oh... great! this is really awesome.

I really like the inclusion of a working Smalltalk browser and workspace!
I think we could easily take this and get to empire-building right quick.
vwnc look out!

how complete is it? how stable is it? perhaps i should just get to writing
apps and find out... :)

Regards,
Aaron Reichow

UMD Library :: (218) 726-6651 :: areichow at d.umn.edu


On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Rob Gayvert wrote:

> An update of my interface to wxWidgets is available at
>
>            http://homepage.mac.com/rgayvert/wxsqueak.html
>
> Below are some notes on what has changed in this version.
>
> Any comments or suggestions are appreciated.
>
>
> .. Rob
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 1. Works with Squeak 3.7 and wxWidgets 2.5.3 on Win32 and Mac OS X.
>
> 2. The API has been expanded and simplified.
>     - Wrapper methods are generated for all primitives.
>     - All conversions to wxWidget types are handled by primitives, so
>       the Smalltalk side is cleaner.
>     - The VM has a collection of helper routines that deal with the more
>       difficult cases, such as passing/returning arrays or rectangles.
>     - wxStyledTextCtrl (based on Scintilla) is supported (but no lexer
>       for Smalltalk yet).
>     - XRC (wxWidgets XML resource format) is supported.
>     - Constants are maintained in a single pool dictionary.
>     - Primitives do more type checking, so there should be fewer VM crashes.
>     - Generic callback mechanism allows methods in Smalltalk subclasses to
>       be called from the wxWidgets framework.
>
> 3. Event handling has been improved.
>     - All events are handled synchronously, so veto and skip operations
>       work properly.
>     - Synchronous events can be nested (recursive calls to interpret()).
>     - Handlers for synchronous events can be debugged.
>
> 4. Rudimentary Model-View-Presenter (MVP) framework
>     - Based on notions in Taligent/Dolphin design
>     - Combined with XRC,
>         - allows wx windows to be saved in the image;
>         - allows views to be specified in an external XML form; and
>         - provides a basis for a graphical interface builder.
>     - Pluggable wx components mimic pluggable morphs (e.g.,
>       PluggableTextWidget ~ PluggableTextMorph).
>     - wx versions of several standard tools (e.g., Browser, Debugger,
>       Inspector) are available.
>
> 5. Numerous new demos
>     - Styled text, splitters, HTML help, dragging images, tree controls,
>       grid, etc.
>     - New demo framework parallels the wxPython demo.
>
> 6. Full source is available.
>
>