On Jun 22, 2012, at 9:16 AM, St��phane Ducasse wrote:
> do not confuse Nautilus and Spec. Nautilus is (or should be) defined using Spec.
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> Spec is the framework for building UI. We are slowly rewriting all the tools based on spec while learning and improving Spec.
> Ideally we would like to be able to reuse a builder PAINTER (a tool to place widgets on the screen) and to generate Spec.
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> Stef
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> On Jun 22, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Hern��n Morales Durand wrote:
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>> First let me apologize for asking without properly evaluating first. I took some time and read about Nautilus which it seems a very nice work. I've developed a phylogenetics classifier using OmniBrowser, but I wondered if Nautilus could save me some effort, and I'm planning to test Pharo 1.4 or 2.0 in some future in which AFAIK OmniBrowser will not be supported anymore.
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>> - Some time ago I've modified the OmniBrowser framework to browse anything I wanted in the "code pane" (the lower pane typically used for displaying/editing code), as we had a complex OODB it was very useful, see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxUaOFRHFPk for a demo. However it was not easy to understand the OB internals and make the modifications. Have you tried to implement such feature in Nautilus?
>> - There is documentation for developing browsers with Nautilus? Something which explains the basic architecture, how it differs from OB? for example:
>> --Do you have to define a metagraph?
>> --May I have multiple definition panels?
>> -Do you have a mapping for each node type (class?) with each column?
>> -OB is not cross-UI (it depends on Morphic). Can I use a Nautilus browser within a web browser?
>> - Another thing which is really easy is to define Commands in OB, (although the #isActive logic could become a mess without some care). How it is different in Nautilus?
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>> I'm sure I would rewrite my browsers with Nautilus, my key question is how much of the OB knowledge I can re-use?
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>> Cheers,
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>> Hern��n
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