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Zeeshan Ansari

Programming desktop applications in Morphic

Hi All,

I'm writing a desktop application and wanted to know what is the best way to do this in Morphic. For example, in .Net I would have event-handlers for specific events from the different window components (dialog, menu, etc) for which I would code the behavior I wanted. Does Morphic follow a similar paradigm? Are there any examples to look at?

Thanks.

jfabry

Re: Programming desktop applications in Morphic

Hello,

it sounds to me like you want to build an application with a GUI. You should have a look at how to do this in Spec, this is the new way to build GUIs in Pharo, standard since 2.0. There is technical report on Spec here: http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/70/80/67/PDF/SpecTechReport.pdf I guess it's a bit out of date but it should be enough to get you started.

On Apr 12, 2013, at 8:39 AM, Zeeshan Ansari <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm writing a desktop application and wanted to know what is the best way to do this in Morphic. For example, in .Net I would have event-handlers for specific events from the different window components (dialog, menu, etc) for which I would code the behavior I wanted. Does Morphic follow a similar paradigm? Are there any examples to look at?
>
> Thanks.
>

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Zeeshan Ansari

Re: Programming desktop applications in Morphic

This is for a school project and I'm not sure I can use this. Is there similar guidance available for Morphic. By the way my application is not just a typical business GUI application. I am trying to build a UML editor. I'm just trying to understand how event-handling works.

Thanks.

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Johan Fabry <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello,

it sounds to me like you want to build an application with a GUI. You should have a look at how to do this in Spec, this is the new way to build GUIs in Pharo, standard since 2.0. There is technical report on Spec here: http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/70/80/67/PDF/SpecTechReport.pdf I guess it's a bit out of date but it should be enough to get you started.

On Apr 12, 2013, at 8:39 AM, Zeeshan Ansari <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm writing a desktop application and wanted to know what is the best way to do this in Morphic. For example, in .Net I would have event-handlers for specific events from the different window components (dialog, menu, etc) for which I would code the behavior I wanted. Does Morphic follow a similar paradigm? Are there any examples to look at?
>
> Thanks.
>

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Sean P. DeNigris

Re: Programming desktop applications in Morphic

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Zeeshan Ansari wrote

This is for a school project and I'm not sure I can use this. Is there
similar guidance available for Morphic. By the way my application is not
just a typical business GUI application. I am trying to build a UML editor.
I'm just trying to understand how event-handling works.

If there are any standard parts, use Spec. It's much simpler. I've never done it, but I'm sure you can embed your custom UML Morphic widget in a Spec UI. If you want to learn Morphic, check out Pharo By Example - it has a quite good treatment of the Morphic hooks.

Cheers,
Sean

Ben Coman

Re: Programming desktop applications in Morphic

In reply to this post by Zeeshan Ansari

You will want to download Squeak 3.9, but [1] gives a good overall
approach...

[1] http://squeak.preeminent.org/tut2007/html/

Zeeshan Ansari wrote:

> This is for a school project and I'm not sure I can use this. Is there
> similar guidance available for Morphic. By the way my application is not
> just a typical business GUI application. I am trying to build a UML editor.
> I'm just trying to understand how event-handling works.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Johan Fabry <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> it sounds to me like you want to build an application with a GUI. You
>> should have a look at how to do this in Spec, this is the new way to build
>> GUIs in Pharo, standard since 2.0. There is technical report on Spec here:
>> http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/70/80/67/PDF/SpecTechReport.pdf I guess it's
>> a bit out of date but it should be enough to get you started.
>>
>>
>> On Apr 12, 2013, at 8:39 AM, Zeeshan Ansari <[hidden email]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm writing a desktop application and wanted to know what is the best
>>>
>> way to do this in Morphic. For example, in .Net I would have event-handlers
>> for specific events from the different window components (dialog, menu,
>> etc) for which I would code the behavior I wanted. Does Morphic follow a
>> similar paradigm? Are there any examples to look at?
>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <---
>>
>> Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry
>> PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

Stephan Eggermont-3

Re: Programming desktop applications in Morphic

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You might want to take a look at Roassal combined with Glamour.
That might save you a lot of work.
The easiest way is to download a Moose 4.8 (that is based on Pharo 2.0)

Stephan

S Krish

Re: Programming desktop applications in Morphic

In reply to this post by Zeeshan Ansari

Pick the Pharo By Example book and you can do the first set of examples.

Carry through and browse through the Morphic hierarchy , methods and debug through all examples / the IDE actions too.

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Zeeshan Ansari <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi All,

I'm writing a desktop application and wanted to know what is the best way to do this in Morphic. For example, in .Net I would have event-handlers for specific events from the different window components (dialog, menu, etc) for which I would code the behavior I wanted. Does Morphic follow a similar paradigm? Are there any examples to look at?

Thanks.