Hi, I’ll try to answer what I can ... Spec is the way to go, Roassal2 is the best visualization tool we have (and I think it’s 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 <shei...@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 ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile
