Morphic 3 presentation at Smalltalks 2007
Juan Vuletich
juan at jvuletich.org
Tue Jan 22 19:03:10 UTC 2008
Hi Jason,
I'm not doing Morphic 3 to suit the average programmer needs, in the
same way Morphic was not built for that. You (everybody!) should watch
the ARK and Self videos.
If all you want is a GUI buider, don't waste your time with Squeak. Most
other Smalltalk dialects include WindowBuilder, the father of all GUI
builders. Consider Visual Smalltalk, Smalltalk Express, VisualWorks,
Dolphin or VA Smalltalk. I believe all of them are free or have
non-commercial variants.
If you still believe the world needs another GUI builder, I see two
ways. You could work on it (I'd be happy to integrate your work in
Morphic 3), or you could raise money to allow me to leave my paid job
and work on it. As Tim says "one MILLION euros"! Also, I believe that
anyone working on a Squeak GUI builder should do it for ToolBuilder.
Cheers,
Juan Vuletich
Jason Johnson wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2008 3:51 AM, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Randy,
>>
>> Tweak doesn't address my concerns, especially about non linear
>> coordinate systems.
>>
>
> But I think the state-of-the-art system should be good for Gurus and
> average programmers as well. That is, it should be really good at
> pumping out the average GUI that usually gets made.
>
> For most programmers, a non-linear coordinate system is totally
> irrelevant. What will Morphic 3 have that makes it fast and effective
> for developing GUI's? Sad to say, but so far the best system I have
> seen for letting one build a GUI "directly" is probably C#.
>
>
>
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