I remember doing a "Wizard" framework in VisualAge... shudders... Still, nice to have standardised support for such things rather than ad-hoc BookMorphs (for example). Regards, Gary. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Schwab" <BSchwab@anest.ufl.edu> To: <pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] Product Brand Pharo
Markus,
Based on the discussion, I started noting how long it takes my images to load; a splash screen might be in order; I also fear that by the time VM loads and the GUI is able to draw itself, it is no longer needed :( Still, I'd add it to the milestones, but probably late in the process.
About help, I am not very sympathetic on the "no documentation" front. Someone seeking to join us will quickly find tutorials, and can post questions. Dolphin's MVP framework almost invariably had the newbie expressing pain and confusion, followed by "why was this so hard last week???" Conversely, the MS Office IDL for Automation has LOTS of "help" - almost all of it useless. The message (pun intended) needs to be "this is not trivial to learn, but very worth your time." Ensuring that good tutorials are linked from our Wiki would be a nice gesture.
Wizards in the IDE - that's a very good idea, and Dolphin helps it along through the IDE extension framework, which is little more than events triggered at the right time, off of each tool's class and giving the needed instances for the code to make the desired changes. Dolphin's view resources, and our lack of them, would require some adaptation. However we do it, it would be a nice addition. The idea is to do _something_ that allows each of us to provide hooks into the IDE w/o having to alter the code. That way, building a new image and updating an existing one will not destroy the extensions.
Bill
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