The PDF documentation of the framework. Obliged for review/ read and comment and try out the first release..


Ben,

��I have done a first read of the Spec and I will get my head around how this should be converge.. Will work on that.

��Though I must note that the spec framework I have laid out is simplistic, flexible and uses the current framework of classes/ morphs without the ValueModel wrapper. Perhaps there is a common ground there, but I would like to emphasize on flexibility of spec and explicit construction to mix and built out has been central to the thought process.

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:28 AM, S Krish <krishnamachari.sudhakar@gmail.com> wrote:
http://skrishnamachari.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/pharo-application-framework-aka-morphic-view-framework/

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For details and links..

Sharing this little framework that should go some way to ease creating large applications ( currently morphic oriented).

AbstractMorphicView subclass: #MyNewView ���

#createMorphsSpecs

^{

���panel1��� -> #SomeOtherView.
���label1��� -> #LabelMorph.
���text1��� -> #PluggableTextMorph.
���button1��� -> #PluggableButtonMorph.
}

layoutSpecsArray

^{
���widgetNameInMorphsDictionary��� -> {
#fractions -> (0 @ 0 corner: 1 @ 0.5). ��� fractional value 0 to 1 range ���
#offsets -> (10 @ 10 corner: 0 @ 0). ��� offsets relative to the fractional position ���
}.

������ add other widgetspecs������
}

Thats it.. you should have a prototype UI neatly laid out.. and then specify: #morphsPrimaryPropertiesSpecs and #morphsSecondaryPropertiesSpecs for full functionality that composes views inside views and scales well.

AbstractSimpleMorphicView can make it simpler for TableLayout stuff without requiring #layoutSpecsArray.

..... the main post has other details and links to package...