WOW!

This looks very nice. I'd be very interested in getting this into the
standard distribution. I'd always held Henrik's BlueLook as the best
Squeak screens I'd seen yet. I like this a lot better.

Very nice work!

On 7/12/07, Gary Chambers <gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Thank you.
>
> At the present time the "upgrade" consists of a fair few MC packages. I have
> had to make the methods rather more resilient then necessay to avoid
> problems with Monticello loading (not quite atomic yet). As I said, if there
> is interest it may be worth creating a unified package.
>
> There are some, perhaps significant, changes to some of the fundamental
> methods in Morphic that could potentially break other packages, though I
> have tested as many as possible and tried to minimise any adverse effects.
>
> Most changes to existing classes are due to a wish to have the development
> enviroment benefit from the enhancements.
>
> Some of the changes may slow things down, while others provide a boost to
> counteract that!
>
> It will be interesting to see how Morphic evolves which may lead to
> requiring fewer workarounds!
>
> At present, with separate packages, it is possible to pick-and-choose the
> enhancements that a user requires, at the expense of a few conditional
> method invocations.
>
> I have tried to work mostly *with* Morphic in terms of implementing the
> "themes", as in using what Morphic provides (in terms of borders, fillStyles
> etc) rather than going down the subclassed-morph approach. This does mean
> that the themes are a little limited, though the plus-side is better
> integration within the Squeak environment.
>
> In terms of fonts, Strike, TTC (why the 'C'?) and Freetype are supported. In
> fact, whatever works in the current environment.
>
> There are major fixes to the window corner grips, splitters and title-bar
> size handling that should make people happier.
> In particular, there are many changes to various morphs to determine their
> proper minimum extent with regard to various layout policies. These may
> cause a problem to some packages, though I feel I have implemented them in
> the way that they were originally intended.
>
> As I remarked in an earlier post, we are committed to ensuring these changes
> move forward *with* Squeak, although it would be nice (easier) if some of
> the changes could be incorporated. It is not as simple as providing a fix to
> an existing Mantis bug.. (I hope this doesn't put you off!).
>
> At present the packages have a "Pinesoft" prefix. That can be changed if
> incorporation is required. We would like to give this back to the community
> that has supported us.
>
> I have added some preferences to allow various levels of involvement with
> the modifications and, at present there are three themes to choose from:
> "StandardSqueak" (mostly like you will be used to); "SoftSqueak"; Vistary
> (as in the screen shot).
>
> The Taskbar can be enabled via preference and is themed along with theming
> of the WorldMainDockingBar.
> Yet to do is providing preference browser based setting of the
> colour/fillstyles used in the UI, though this can be done through code at
> present.
>
> I welcome any feedback.
>
> Gary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Andreas
> Wacknitz
> Sent: 12 July 2007 8:09 pm
> To: 'The general-purpose Squeak developers list'
> Subject: Re: A couple of simple ergonomic adjustments
>
>
>
>
> > And some not-so-simple ergonomic adjustments ;-)
>
> > A piccy of my Squeak desktop along with one of our applications.
>
> >  http://www.flickr.com/photos/65338133@N00/789894614/
>
> > Nearly ready to release into the community as an add-on package (minus
> > the report builder), though does modify (fix) quite a bit of morphic
> > too.
>
> > Uses the FreetypePlus package (good work Andy!).
>
> > Supports a few different "themes", including one that looks more like
> > "standard" squeak. Provides a nice UI for some standard (business
> > application like) services, choosing colours, selecting a font etc.
> > Also provides a framework for creating "standard" morphs (checkboxes,
> > drop-lists etc).
>
> > If there's any interest I'll speed up getting it ready for release.
>
> This looks rather promising. Many new Squeakers ask for common controls. The
> lack of standard GUI elements is a show stopper for many. With your work
> Squeak will be even more interesting. I can't wait to get my hands on it ;-)
>
> Regards
> Andreas
>
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