Hi,
I'm writing a desktop business application for a customer. Having written a number of web applications using Pharo and Seaside, I would like to use Pharo and Morphic in this case.
I have read the section on Morphic in `Pharo by Example', however, writing a business application (i.e. CRUD), I need to focus on (tedious) data browsing and entry, keyboard navigation, and so on as opposed to (cool) interactive morphs.
Did you check glamour? because if you have to manage data this is nice. You can build fast prototype of your application UI.
My problem is trying to discern the the current and most stable approach to using Morphic for such an application. Clearly, I have a wealth of code at my fingertips and the Squeak wiki has numerous posts, but many of the latter seem outdated and speak only vaguely of the MVC vs. Morphic situation. Do I use ToolBuilder?
you can.
Are pluggable morphs a vestige of MVC?
This is what I thought but I'm not sure. Normally we removed a lot of MVC
Do I use PolyMorph widgets?
Yes You can use the Polymorph tool builder.
Do I use dependencies, events, or announcements?
I am very interested in seeing Pharo succeed as a business application development tool (among other uses), and I would be quite happy to contribute to code and documentation to help that along.
We would love that. Thanks a lot.
However, first, I need to learn how to sort the wheat of Morphic from the chaff of MVC and whatever else is lying around in a Pharo image.
We too.
Any pointers to (more) definitive documentation and classes would be much appreciated.
UITheme example for example.
Regards,
Mike
-- Michael J. Forster <mike@sharedlogic.ca>
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