[squeak-dev] [ANN] SeasideXUL
cdrick
cdrick65 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 14 18:06:00 UTC 2008
looks really exciting :)
Could Magritte help here (so as to choose between web and XUL easily)?
Cédrick
2008/4/14, Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com>:
> 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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