[ANN] Marvin: Self for Squeak - Slate

David P Harris dpharris at telus.net
Mon Sep 5 18:49:53 UTC 2005


Brian Rice wrote:

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> On Sep 4, 2005, at 2:22 PM, David P Harris wrote:
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>> Brian Rice wrote:
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>>> Did you look at Slate Smalltalk? What did you think of it?
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>> Slate is at: http://slate.tunes.org/
>> Slate looks very interesting and I have wanted to explore it.   
>> However, it remains hard to use (to me) in the text-only form, and  I 
>> was wondering if the graphical environment has been developed (yet)?
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> Not yet. That's why we don't announce releases here. The rendering  
> framework works, but I don't have enough people to maintain the core  
> and have time to develop the entire UI - a self-perpetuating problem  
> since contributors self-limit themselves when there aren't enough  
> easy tools to use. I'll work through this, but it takes time.
>
> -- 
> -Brian
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Yes, same-old :-(
Is the rendering framework in the available code?  Does it render? 
Might need to take a deeper look ;-)

David






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