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Re: What UI direction now (or in the near future)?

Posted by Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list on Feb 25, 2015; 7:10pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/What-UI-direction-now-or-in-the-near-future-tp4807447p4807690.html

Hello Petr,

So far we have Morphic  (Athens is the next underlying framework for 2D Drawing).
Thanks to Nicolai, Athens is near to be fully integrated.
We have Spec for widgets composition.

Regarding Bloc:

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> A) Is Bloc (complete Morphic rewrite, sigh) “one man show”? What about future, support, long-term issues? Look at Marina CMS framework, even used for Pharo website, but not maintained now…

I’ve started Bloc with Stephane. So far I’m the main developper, But, you are perfectly right. No future for Bloc if it stays like that.
We’ve stopped adding because now, design decisions are to be made regarding the widgets layer.
Currently, we are writing a documentation of the core. The next step is to make it available in the hope we will get feedbacks and also to bootstrap contributions from the community.
It will take time. Be sure that I will stop Bloc if we stay only two or if someone else come and propose something better than Bloc. No problem, I’ve fun with Bloc.

Spec will stay, so we will also have to build new adapters to be able reuse tools.

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> B) Is Bloc prepared with Retina displays in mind (perfect smooth fonts and graphics, scaling, more detailed images for retina etc.)?

Bloc bring nothing on that point except that it is is based on Athens

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> C) Is current keyboard + UI component focus support perfect or pain in…

I guess yes :)

Cheers
Alain


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> Isn’t a “bad time” for this decision (Pharo) now?
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> Thanks very much for any brief hint, Petr Fischer
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