Hi, Iâll try to answer what I can ... Spec is the way to go, Roassal2 is the best visualization tool we have (and I think itâs excellent), Glamour is separate from Moose. If I may simplify: Spec is for any kind of traditional user interface, where Glamour is for a subset of that: those where there is a flow of data from one widget to a next widget and so on. Spec uses Morphic for its widgets, but is not tightly coupled to Morphic, the idea is to move on to other things later. Non-widget morphs can be incorporated in Spec windows, and Roassal2 visualizations also ( for example of the latter see my work on LRP http://pleiad.cl/LRP ). As long as I will be using Roassal2 (hopefully a long time) I can guarantee you that I will annoy the Roassal guys when integration with Spec breaks. In general this has never been a major issue, and I am quite sure that it never will be.
On Jan 25, 2015, at 18:52, Sebastian Heidbrink <sheidev@yahoo.de> wrote:
Okay, .... I am new to the UI implementations and options in the Pharo world and I am really confused.
So, am I right to say. - Polymorph is no more really the way to go? - Spec is the official way to go right now? - Roassal2 is the way to go for visualizations? - Athens is well, I can't even say.... hmm interesting when it comes to SVG? - Glamour has to be seen in conjunction with Moose? I had a look into GTSpotter and I have the feeling this took a long long time for implementation. - No e.g. Google material like UI possible since there are no frameworks available to do animation stuff.... didn't Squeak and E-Toys do that? Is there nothing left in Pharo? - Lumiere or Roassal3D when it come to sprites?
Are all of these framework compatible to each other? How much maintenance and repair effort may I expect when I combine e.g. Spec with Morphic and Roassal2?
VASmalltalk has a very strong separation of UI-View and UI-Control layers. Which Pharo framework could allow me t replace the look and feel of my application without loosing my event handling/ control layers?
This is Smalltalk and this is objects, and I am bound so much to a windowing representation? There is nothing I could do like with HTML5 and css? Put some pictures in the world and just add event handlers to them?
So I might go with Spec and Morphic then? Glamour is more Moose? Or is there a direction to deprecate one of them?
Thanks for all you into so far. I'll carefully read all the so far provided resources.
Sebastian
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