This is why I insist on collecting things on one place, inside pharo. Web is all over the place, its great for finding information and for getting people work together , but not great learning things you are not familiar with. Actually GUI wise Mophics is one the best examples. Think about it, if you try to use any GUI in python for example, you are out of luck it has none. Even Tkinter which is the gui it comes with cpython is not coded in python , its coded in tk a scripiting language. Python GUI APIs widely used include PyGTK , PyQT , WxPython , all of them wrappers for C/C++ libraries. Other dynamic languages follow the same recipe. Of course these frameworks are much more documented than morphic , but unlike morphic they follow a monolithic widget architecture, and modifying the source in any way requires a mandatory knowledge of C/C++. And we should exclude their myriad of problem , GTKs notorious buginess on macos and windows , QT massive complexity for big GUIs up to the point it offer a dedicated programming language QML just for designing GUIs. On the other hand morphic is to a very large extend smalltalk. So you get a lot of power but also a lot more simplicity. Some areas however are in need for some more love and of course documentation is lacking and the speed of the gui is far from breathtaking. Morphic is a very big reason why I am with pharo, to be exact I find its ability to do visual coding and transform a smalltalk object to a visual element very appealing and I would love to work on that. Morphic halos is another very nice feature. The other reason is live coding of course. I will try to add to the documentation of morphic, I agree 100% we need more of it. FDominicus wrote
kilon <
thekilon@.co
> writes:
How does "extending Pharo help tool " sounds ? :)
I am struggling to learn how morphic really works, especially TreeMorph. Well that is a thing I tried more than once, but somehow I never understood on how to make good use for Morphic for me. I checked a lot of tutorial but then even simple things like menues seem to be doable but not for me..
It is strange and not "nice".
Regards Friedrich
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