Morphic and business apps

Ruedi Steinmann ruedisteinmann at gmx.net
Sun Feb 6 19:12:25 UTC 2005


I've started using morphic a few weeks ago. There is hardly any
documentation around. You'll spend much time on figuring out how things
work. But at some time things suddenly become easier and then everything
is possible.
Ruedi 

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 01:15, Guenther Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using Dolphin for creating apps with a rather trivial business 
> logic, and it was a lot of fun, smalltalk is just great.
> 
> However since I'll hardly ever write a killer app, I just want my apps 
> at least to look cool.
> I've seen some screenshots from the Exobox project (which unfortunately 
> I can't find anymore) and that's exactly the kind of UI I want to implement.
> 
> But that's pretty hard with Dolphin as it's using standard windows 
> widgets, I reckon I could try ActiveX, but that would take me out of 
> smalltalk.
> 
> 
> How *is* Morphic, I mean how is it usable for writing, well business 
> apps with a great UI?
> 
> What I've seen is Morpic and Squeak used for Etoys, drawing and such but 
> I'm not sure if it's suitable for business apps. There is the bank 
> account tutorial and that's indeed a business app, but only showing 
> business logic, and no UI.
> 
> Your 2 cents very appreciated.
> 
> Günther
> 
> 




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