Morphic and business apps

Pablo Iaria piaria at luminafinance.com
Mon Feb 7 12:26:37 UTC 2005


Hi Günther,

May be you want to try the wxSqueak framework witch is a binding to the wxWindows UI framework.

I don't know if it's a rock-solid product yet, but see it yourself:

http://homepage.mac.com/rgayvert/wxsqueak.html

Pablo.-

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Guenther Schmidt
> Sent: Viernes, 04 de Febrero de 2005 09:15 p.m.
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Morphic and business apps
> 
> 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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