[squeak-dev] [ANN] SeasideXUL

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Mon Apr 14 17:24:35 UTC 2008


Wow, all what needed is a way to embed XULRunner into Squeak and you
can do desktop development in Seaside!

Cheers
Philippe

2008/4/13, Pavel Krivanek <squeak1 at continentalbrno.cz>:
> Hi all,
>
>  I started the project named SeasideXUL. This package enables to
>  generate XUL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XUL) code in Seaside 2.9 so
>  now we can create applications with standard look&feel directly in
>  Smalltalk with the power of Seaside.
>
>  Pictures are worth more than thousand words:
>  http://comtalk.eu/public/pub/SeasideXUL/screenshots/
>
>  XUL can be displayed directly in FireFox or there's a project named
>  XULRunner that enables to run it as a standalone application (see
>  screenshots, the application then can use own shortcuts etc.) but
>  still in thin-client/server architecture. Standard HTML or SVG code
>  can be embedded in XUL page.
>
>  I had to created ajax-based call/answer mechanism with continuations
>  for SeasideXUL. The complete port of XUL Periodic Table
>  (http://www.hevanet.com/acorbin/xul/top.xul) is included as the
>  demonstration application. However lot of next things wait for
>  implementation (e.g. some alternative to forms) or need to be made
>  more robust and easily usable (whole ajax part).
>
>  Seaside 2.9 is quite hard to load and SeasideXUL doesn't reflect some
>  latest changes in this package (Seaside 2.9 is still under heavy
>  development) so if you want to try SeasideXUL on your own in this
>  stage of development, do not await a nice walk through a rosarium. It
>  was developed on this set of packages:
>
>  Scriptaculous-Components (Scriptaculous-Components-lr.41)
>  Scriptaculous-Core (Scriptaculous-Core-lr.18)
>  Scriptaculous-Squeak-Core (Scriptaculous-Squeak-Core-lr.1)
>  Scriptaculous-Tests (Scriptaculous-Tests-lr.21)
>  Seaside-Adapters-Core (Seaside-Adapters-Core-pmm.3)
>  Seaside-Core (Seaside-Core-lr.120)
>  Seaside-Development-Core (Seaside-Development-Core-lr.20)
>  Seaside-Examples (Seaside-Examples-pmm.1)
>  Seaside-Squeak-Adapters (Seaside-Squeak-Adapters-mu.7)
>  Seaside-Squeak-Core (Seaside-Squeak-Core-dkh.38)
>  Seaside-Squeak-Development (Seaside-Squeak-Development-pmm.10)
>  Seaside-Squeak-Kom (Seaside-Squeak-Kom-pmm.13)
>  Seaside-Tests (Seaside-Tests-dkh.102)
>  Seaside-Utils-Core (Seaside-Utils-Core-lr.7)
>
>  Scriptaculous dependency should be removed in next versions.
>
>  Mozilla seems to be pretty strong platform provider and future
>  versions of FireFox should be based directly on the XULRunner. I hope
>  that we did the important step to gain multi-platform and
>  multi-implementation user interface framework for Smalltalk.
>
>  Cheers,
>
> -- Pavel
>
>



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