On Nov 2, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Sergi Reyner <sergi.rey...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> This is my first message to the list. I've been learning Smalltalk and toying
> with Pharo 2.0 for some weeks now.
Excellent
> One thing that has me puzzled is the many different ways to build GUIs. I´m
> rewriting an app in Pharo as an exercise. It needs to display images in some
> parts. So far, I have:
>
> - Sent messages to (UITheme builder)
It is a facade and I do not really facade because they do not scale and
are not modular.
> - Created a SystemWindow, then #addMorph: to it, sending them #model: and so
> afterwards.
this is the default programmatic way
If you are in a hurry use the two approaches above.
> - Tried and somewhat succeeded in building my GUI with Spec, which apparently
> doesn't know about images.
what do you mean about images.
Spec is what we want to push so
> - Read some stuff about Athens
Athens is not about building app UI it is a rendering canvas
> - Read some stuff about Morphic 3, and wondered if it will make its way into
> Pharo.
Forget that. Truly. We are cleaning Morphic but slowly. We had a plan
but it failed because people left.
> - Read something about how Spec has changed a lot in Pharo 3.0 (which is
> labelled as alpha)
Not that much but it is better
> On top of that, as I understand it, building GUIs with Morphic was originally
> meant to be a visual live process, however what I've read so far takes a
> programmatic approach.
Not necessarily.
> So... many questions, few clues, I am lost. I definitely need to use some
> AlphaImageMorphs in certain parts of the application, and while I find Spec's
> way easier, I'm at a loss when it comes to that part.
Ok Ben will reply better than me.
One way is to take 30 and extend Spec with support for images.
> On the other hand, it's sold as "the new way to build GUIs" so I'm not sure
> if these are missing things that will be included later, or if I'm supposed
> to implement them on top of the Spec framework, or even if there´s already a
> way to do it and I just don't get it :S
>
> Cheers,
> Sergi
