[UI] ToolBuilder

[Karl]

Jason Johnson wrote:
> On 9/8/07, Matthew Fulmer <tapplek at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> The default squeak browsers use the Pluggable*Morphs, whose sole
>> purpose was to get the toolset, which was and still is written
>> for MVC, to work in Morphic. They are not terribly useful morphs
>> and are not representative of Morphic at all. They are the
>> keepers of most of the "Unspeakable Horrors" in Morphic.
>> Unfortunately, due to the popularity of the toolset, these
>> widgets have given the average squeak developer a bad image of
>> Morphic.
>>     
>
> This may be naive, but from reading the Self papers, my impression of
> what Morphic was supposed to be about was rapidly building GUI's.  For
> example, from reading that paper I would expect to be able to grab a
> "bare window" morph, a big "text area" morph, a menu morph, 4 flap
> morphs (one for each side), each with a tab morph inside and have a
> shell that looks like the InteliJ IDE in about 5 minutes.
>   
This part of the Morphic implementation was never done in Squeak. There 
is work in this direction here: http://csl.ensm-douai.fr/EasyMorphicGUI


Karl