[UI] UI plan, my thoughts

[Brad Fuller]

On Sat August 25 2007, Douglas Rollwitz wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I also would like a more standard UI development tool,
> one that we can use for "normal" UI development.  For
> a few years I extended a tool called BobsUI, trying to
> get it to that capability.  The more I added to it,
> the more I noticed some fundamental problems with the
> code however, and decided it needed a big refactoring.
> I dropped supporting it due to a lack of time, but I
> would like to pick it back up, and have others
> participate as well.  It needs a lot of work, but I
> also believe it can be a very good tool.
>
> While my goal for BobsUI is for it to be a standard
> business UI builder, it looks nothing like a standard
> UI builder.  This is because I was trying to improve
> on the standard UI builders, and have it fit into the
> Squeak paradigm.
>
> I will be creating a BobsUI page on the swiki soon,
> which will go over the design and future direction I
> would like it to have.  You can download BobsUI from
> the Squeak Map.
>
> Because of the work in BobsUI, I have come to the
> conclusion that the Moroh-HaloMorph-Halo relationship
> needs to be refactored.  I actually did this once a
> few years ago, but lost the code in a hard disk crash.
>  Currently I am working on recreating this code
> enhancement.  I will write another email on that work.

Note that there is a group that is cleaning up Morphic. You might contact Juan 
Vuletich and join efforts.
Also: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3005

I don't know how current the group is. I'll CC them to this message.

brad