Posted by stepharo on Apr 22, 2016; 6:01am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Trapping-the-Pharo-window-close-event-tp4890079p4891264.html



Le 16/4/16 12:18, kmo a écrit :
> Well, my reply was rather tongue-in-cheek. I was mocking my own laziness and
> the laziness of developers like me. But really I have no problem in doing
> these things for myself. And I hope that soon I will be in a position to
> contribute to pharo myself.

But you are :)
30 min a week is enough :)
>
> But overriding the close event is something any application developer is
> going to want to do. And every time you make a developer work harder than
> necessary to implement a basic feature you make the pharo platform less
> attractive. If you want more developers to use pharo you have to make basic
> things like this easy to do and easy to find out how to do.
We know that.
Now I will not give the HUGE list of the things we are working on and
that default
developers are in need:
     - good file library
     - good list widget
     - FFI
     - decent texteditor
     - a compiler :)
     - ...

>
> I do think that deployment of applications gets very little attention in
> pharo - yet it's a major issue of you want to make pharo a widely-used
> application platform.
Indeed. We started to push that when damien worked on the launcher and
we should continue.