[Morphic] Re: [UI] UI plan, my thoughts

[Brad Fuller]

Juan,

Thanks for bringing us up to date. That brings up a question.
Now that there is a SqueakLand image with the new Etoys, what is the direction 
for including the newest (OLPC-based) Etoys in Squeak?
Anyone know?

brad

On Sat August 25 2007, Juan Vuletich wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I was part of the "Morphic Team" that was in charge of the Morphic
> packages in Squeak. I believe it was in the 3.7 or 3.8 days. My work
> there was splitting the big Morphic package into Morphic, Morphic Extras
> and Etoys. I also harvested some fixes from Jerome Peace.
>
> My idea was to stop adding code and start removing code from Morphic. I
> found little support for that from the Board and the community. And the
> next level of cleanup of dependencies between these packages was beyond
> my possibilities (and I believe beyond anyone's). So I quit and focused
> on Morphic 3. This project is not (yet) focused on the kind of problems
> you're talking about, but I'm interested in watching.
>
> (BTW, I was not part of MCP).
>
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
> www.jvuletich.org
>
> Brad Fuller wrote:
> > 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
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