Morphic programming

Enrico Schwass deckard73 at freenet.de
Wed Sep 14 17:22:17 UTC 2005


Hello Edgar

> Welcome Enno:
> Good an bad news.
> Squeak is a moving target, 3.9 is on work and change a lot from 3.8.
> So some old good friends as BobsUI have a difficult time or not work at all
> in 3.8 , as you found. ( I investigate why and see If have a solution)
> In SM , that is SqueakMap exist one package named SVI what could interest
> you, no for UI building.

Well, I installed it and it looks promising.

> UI building as commercial cousins don't exist in Squeak, but wise and
> dedicated members are cooking some support what eventual lead to this.
> So you have the chance to do history.:-)

Spare time is rare :) And I dont want a GUI builder. I dont like the
click and drop. It creates ugly code. I looked for a well specified
toolkit like TK (awt, swing *sigh*) or a similiar one. But walking
around in Squeak I found an interesting thing. Dont yawning :)

I use the debug feature and the explore browser to look into the
FileList Morph. It has all the stuff I need. Buttons, Entry fields,
Listbox etc. Squeak can show me how it is implemented. This is great.

Ok. I just created a 

win _ SystemWindow new openInWorld.
win setLabel: 'My new name'.

so far. But I saw some geometry methods, some layout methods etc.
I am on the right way.

Some quick note to Giuliano. This quote deters me.
"Hardly runnable, full of bugs! For developers only."
Prefab is a good project bringing TK to squeak.
But for the first steps I am happier with a more mature one.


Thanks to all
Enno




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