I���m trying to return to Smalltalk after a 15+ year break (VisualAge, ENfin/2 ST-80 etc), and have been trying to get back into the saddle with Pharo 8 and Pharo 9.

Since I have no legacy code - I���ve opted for Pharo 9 knowing a stable release isn���t far away.

My goal is to produce several applications for private use, and regain some competence in Smalltalk along the way. The apps are business accounting/investing style apps - not too technical. I���m really not keen on the prospect of using any of the other ���mainstream��� alternatives we have today.

I���m confident I can build a domain model easily enough, but the Pharo environment is my stumbling point - especially building the GUI with Spec2. I���m really spinning my wheels trying to get a useful Spec2 application built.

It needs to have menus, a toolbar, tabbed notebooks, tree lists etc - plus a dozen or so tabular panes (to view/maintain my domain model). Ideally it would also be able to use ODBC or UDBC or Excel etc for transaction storage.

I���ve been through all the building blocks in SpDemo but there a just too many concepts to familiarise with and test bit by bit as I buildup a more realistic functioning application. It has been very frustraing and time consuming.

I understand why there are not yet solid guides available (book, tutorial, examples) , so I thought the best way would be to use an existing Spec2 application to help me get it going. I think this would save me many weeks of effort.

Could anyone point me to at a working non-trivial application that I could share and use a starting point.

Any suggestions to help me get into the heart of my application would be most welcome���!