Melia - different kind of GUI
Alan Kay
alan.kay at squeakland.org
Thu Jan 25 17:48:41 UTC 2007
Hi --
The costumes are supposed to be separate. An example in Croquet is
that when you go from a world where you might look like the Rabbit
into the waterworld, you change into a fish. Also, Croquet has done a
lot of experimentation with filtered viewing, which is worth looking
at. Logical separation is one thing, but there is also the question
of identity, namely, when is a view of something to be taken as a
manifestation of the thing, and when should it be considered a new thing?
Cheers,
Alan
At 12:37 AM 1/25/2007, Adrin wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I looked closer to Etoys and Sophie and have pretty much to study.
>
>But there is one thing, almost philosophical thing, what makes Melia
>different. If I em correct, costumes and halos are extensions
>applied to objects. Object will live with these extensions. In Melia
>I try to really separate object from its possible visualization and
>possible set of modification tools. I could be able to drag&drop
>object from one window to another and object will change its
>appearance dynamically. For this matter I must define standard
>interface (in Melia I use archetype addressing - cool term isn't it?
>:) I do it, because I still try to follow real world working with
>objects - take it, look at it, focus on part of it, modify it.
>
>Cheers,
> Adam
>
>Alan Kay napsal(a):
>>Hi --
>>
>>I looked at your website and I think this is a good idea
>>(especially if you don't require window boundaries around objects
>>-- this has always been one of the most misunderstood properties of
>>the PARC Smalltalk GUI).
>>
>>Historically, one of the first times this was done, pretty much
>>exactly as you suggest, was the object-by-object editing as a halo
>>of controls, and I think first implemented by Ted Kaehler at PARC
>>in one of the very first attempts at doing a DTP system that
>>combined modeless text editing with embedded pictures. This was
>>before Smalltalk-76 as I recall. Here's a picture I found in the
>>Early History of Smalltalk paper for HOPL II.
>>
>>Emacs!
>>
>>The larger version of this picture (which I don't have handy on my
>>machine in Japan) shows that this illustration is embedded in a
>>galley of text paragraphs. The idea in this interface was that when
>>you touch any object, it should show its editing interface as a
>>frame or halo around the object. Some remnants of this idea are to
>>be seen in the Etoys halo of handles, and its "costume" architecture, etc.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Alan
>>
>>At 02:17 AM 1/23/2007, Adrin wrote:
>>>Hi,
>>>I just completed first stage of draft Melia GUI concept. I like to
>>>ask you, what is wrong, what is good, how to continue and so on...
>>>Please look here: http://adrin.ic.cz/Wiki/index.php?n=GUI.GUI
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>> Adam.
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>>
>>
>
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