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Cincom Smalltalk Plans: UI

Alex Rice-2
Oh no!  I fear, as the last newbie to inquire about Widgetry on this
list, that i somehow jinxed it. The straw that broke the camels back,
as it were.

That's some gallows humor- sorry. Seriously, I feel your sorrow- all
those who invested so much time and love into Widgetry over the past
-wow- 6 years?

But I was trying to figure out what is the deal with Widgetry recently
and the documentation and examples are well- rather scarce.

I looked at Squeak too but one thing that made me crazy was there are
seemingly 42 different GUI frameworks, and forks of them, and each one
more zany and poorly documented than the last. And when you launch
Squeak and dig into it your brain feels like you are witnessing at a
collision of 4 or 5 of the GUI frameworks right there on the screen!
I am so glad VW will never feel like that.

So here's to consistency and incremental improvements!

BTW I am also happy that VW is going to be supporting and presumably
bundling or enhancing Seaside. My web browser is going to be the
"alternative" GUI framework, in my book.

Cheers,

Alex Rice

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Re: Cincom Smalltalk Plans: UI

stéphane ducasse-2
Hi Alex

I'm sure you were metaphorically speaking. still for Squeak you have  
morphic + MVC
after if you use sophie or croquet you get tweak.
Nothing else and certainly not 42
  (of course without documentation).

Stef

On 11 sept. 07, at 05:50, Alex Rice wrote:

> Oh no!  I fear, as the last newbie to inquire about Widgetry on this
> list, that i somehow jinxed it. The straw that broke the camels back,
> as it were.
>
> That's some gallows humor- sorry. Seriously, I feel your sorrow- all
> those who invested so much time and love into Widgetry over the past
> -wow- 6 years?
>
> But I was trying to figure out what is the deal with Widgetry recently
> and the documentation and examples are well- rather scarce.
>
> I looked at Squeak too but one thing that made me crazy was there are
> seemingly 42 different GUI frameworks, and forks of them, and each one
> more zany and poorly documented than the last. And when you launch
> Squeak and dig into it your brain feels like you are witnessing at a
> collision of 4 or 5 of the GUI frameworks right there on the screen!
> I am so glad VW will never feel like that.
>
> So here's to consistency and incremental improvements!
>
> BTW I am also happy that VW is going to be supporting and presumably
> bundling or enhancing Seaside. My web browser is going to be the
> "alternative" GUI framework, in my book.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex Rice
>