[Pharo-project] GUI ?
Hi, Someone have a good documentation or tutorial for learning how to create GUI avec Pharo ? In particuliar, I search a description of the objects like buttons, fields, treeview , radio buttons, checkbox and the events mechanism. On the ML, i can read messages about Morphic and Polymorph ? what is the difference ? Best regards Olivier ;-) www.auverlot.fr
Olivier, There is a growing body of good information. You might start here: http://www.pharo-project.org/documentation/screencasts http://book.pharo-project.org/ Morphic is a long-standing UI framework for Squeak, taken from Self. Morphic was a nice simulation environment, but Squeak's GUI really needed someone to either replace Morphic entirely, or to at least use it to simulate a user interface consistent with the "feel" (what the GUI does in response to user input) users have learned to expect. The first attempt to do that was Jim Benson's Zurgle, which the Squeak community completely marginalized. If Zurgle had a failing, it was dependence on external files, but a simple theme could have addressed the concerns. Time passes. Gary Chambers of Pinesoft announced Polymorph, and offered to make it available if anyone were interested in using it. A repeat of Zurgle's trip to oblivion seemed likely, but fortunately Pharo had begun to take shape, and it was not long before Polymorph became its default user interface framework. In short, Polymorph is a collection of widgets built on top of Morphic. It provides some impressive graphics, but the "feel" is the critical feature. Welcome aboard! Bill ________________________________________ From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Olivier Auverlot [olivier.auverlot@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 5:43 AM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: [Pharo-project] GUI ? Hi, Someone have a good documentation or tutorial for learning how to create GUI avec Pharo ? In particuliar, I search a description of the objects like buttons, fields, treeview , radio buttons, checkbox and the events mechanism. On the ML, i can read messages about Morphic and Polymorph ? what is the difference ? Best regards Olivier ;-) www.auverlot.fr
IMHO actually the way to go (and document - I can help) is Polymorph. On Pharocasts http://www.pharocasts.com/search/label/gui Also look at UITheme class, examples protocol. Laurent. On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Schwab,Wilhelm K <bschwab@anest.ufl.edu>wrote:
Olivier,
There is a growing body of good information. You might start here:
http://www.pharo-project.org/documentation/screencasts http://book.pharo-project.org/
Morphic is a long-standing UI framework for Squeak, taken from Self. Morphic was a nice simulation environment, but Squeak's GUI really needed someone to either replace Morphic entirely, or to at least use it to simulate a user interface consistent with the "feel" (what the GUI does in response to user input) users have learned to expect. The first attempt to do that was Jim Benson's Zurgle, which the Squeak community completely marginalized. If Zurgle had a failing, it was dependence on external files, but a simple theme could have addressed the concerns.
Time passes. Gary Chambers of Pinesoft announced Polymorph, and offered to make it available if anyone were interested in using it. A repeat of Zurgle's trip to oblivion seemed likely, but fortunately Pharo had begun to take shape, and it was not long before Polymorph became its default user interface framework.
In short, Polymorph is a collection of widgets built on top of Morphic. It provides some impressive graphics, but the "feel" is the critical feature.
Welcome aboard!
Bill
________________________________________ From: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [ pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] On Behalf Of Olivier Auverlot [olivier.auverlot@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 5:43 AM To: Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Subject: [Pharo-project] GUI ?
Hi,
Someone have a good documentation or tutorial for learning how to create GUI avec Pharo ?
In particuliar, I search a description of the objects like buttons, fields, treeview , radio buttons, checkbox and the events mechanism.
On the ML, i can read messages about Morphic and Polymorph ? what is the difference ?
Best regards Olivier ;-)
www.auverlot.fr
Le 03/03/11 13:32, Schwab,Wilhelm K a écrit :
Morphic is a long-standing UI framework for Squeak, taken from Self. Morphic was a nice simulation environment, but Squeak's GUI really needed someone to either replace Morphic entirely, or to at least use it to simulate a user interface consistent with the "feel" (what the GUI does in response to user input) users have learned to expect. The first attempt to do that was Jim Benson's Zurgle, which the Squeak community completely marginalized. If Zurgle had a failing, it was dependence on external files, but a simple theme could have addressed the concerns.
Time passes. Gary Chambers of Pinesoft announced Polymorph, and offered to make it available if anyone were interested in using it. A repeat of Zurgle's trip to oblivion seemed likely, but fortunately Pharo had begun to take shape, and it was not long before Polymorph became its default user interface framework.
In short, Polymorph is a collection of widgets built on top of Morphic. It provides some impressive graphics, but the "feel" is the critical feature. Bill,
Thank youfor that explanation.Iunderstandthe situation better. Best regards Olivier ;-) www.auverlot.fr
Start to have a look at - screencast of laurent - UITheme examples - there are examples of TreeMorphTree Of course a couple of real chapters would really help but no time and knowledge from my side. Polymorph is a layer on top of morphic that we should continue to totally absorb. The idea was that Polymorph was extending Morphic in a time where it was difficult to get anything changed so subclassing was used when now we could merge the functionality to the system. I would like to do a pair programming session with gary to fix that. Stef
Hi,
Someone have a good documentation or tutorial for learning how to create GUI avec Pharo ?
In particuliar, I search a description of the objects like buttons, fields, treeview , radio buttons, checkbox and the events mechanism.
On the ML, i can read messages about Morphic and Polymorph ? what is the difference ?
Best regards Olivier ;-)
www.auverlot.fr
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Stéphane Ducasse