We have a package that provides Polymorph support for Magritte, as used in our ReportBuilder. I'm sure it would be no problem to get it released into SqueakSource :-) Regards, Gary ________________________________ From: Bill Schwab <BSchwab@anest.ufl.edu> To: pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Sent: Friday, 9 January, 2009 4:16:55 AM Subject: [Pharo-project] GUI editor, etc. Hello all, There was some recent mention of GUI frameworks and/or an editor. For fear of losing the idea, I will just throw this out now while I am thinking of it. I submit that one needs both a drag/drop graphical tool, and a programmatic capability. The graphical approach works well for many/most uses. Programmatic construction is very helpful for creating views to match RDB schemas, etc. Magritte might be of help in both scenarios, especially the programmatic side. We might get a lot out of simply "telling Magritte about Polymorph." So far at least, we seem to be using code, not data structures, to assemble views. That would make the graphical tool something that should work like I _think_ WindowBuilder does/did. My recollection is that it executed code to construct objects and then had the modified objects write code to recreate themselves. I fear we need to be careful about looking at the code to see how it works. Perhaps a little controversial, Tweak strikes me (please feel free to disagree/correct as appropriate) as using compiler/language changes to do things that can be (and so far, I would argue should be) accomplished by composition of objects with the language as-is. What Tweak shows as events in code browsers, I would prefer to see listed in a graphical tool editor. I'm pretty sure I recall WindowBuilder doing a nice job of that too. The toothpicks holding my eyes open are about to snap. Bill Wilhelm K. Schwab, Ph.D. University of Florida Department of Anesthesiology PO Box 100254 Gainesville, FL 32610-0254 Email: bschwab@anest.ufl.edu Tel: (352) 273-6785 FAX: (352) 392-7029 _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project