I dont see what Bloc and Bric have to do with sexiness. The only thing I see is Athens which Morphic already has access to. To be truly custom GUI friendly the API needs to at least offer some GPU acceleration and access to a myriad of graphical effects. I have not seen anything in Bloc and Bric that would make me abandon Morphic.
Actually the one thing that I am waiting for with some excitement is SDL support which would make things easier for someone like that loves to create custom GUIs. On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:51 AM Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymc...@me.com> wrote: > It’s kind of a pity that to make something sexy we still have to use > Morphic… Hopefully this will change with Bloc & Bric > > On 24 Jun 2016, at 10:25, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In my case is just personal preference none the less Spec has ways to wrap > morphs to Spec widgets so you should be able to build Spec widgets using > Morphic for more flexibility. You dont have to decide to use Spec or > Morphic, you can use both. Last time I checked Spec came with examples on > how to do this and I think Spec docs also mention this. > > Also I think Athens is very good at rendering text (because its wraps > around the Cairo library) , so maybe you can take advantage of that though > I suspect Bloc may be even better choice in this case because it is based > on Athens and it is fully compatible with Morphic. > > There is also a text widget that is being build that is much more flexible > with handling text > > https://vimeo.com/67752734 > > Be advised though that both Bloc and TxText are far from finished > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 1:28 AM Tommaso Dal Sasso < > tommaso.dalsa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Personally I don't dislike the Spec approach, but the API still looks not >> expressive enough for doing things beyond the standard. >> >> I am deepening my knowledge of Morphic now, thanks for your answer! >> Tommaso >> >> >> >> On 22/06/16 17:11, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: >> >> Documentation is always a problem. >> >> I dont use Spec because I dont like it , but I use Morphic for my project >> ChronosManager. I do some "styling" for example use different fonts for >> different labels , different sizes , I format strings to time stamps and >> even offer easy ways for user to change them without modifying the whole >> string. >> >> You can do a lot with Morphic, though I have not played with layout stuff >> since this GUI is static and image (PNGs) based but yeah Morphic can do >> that as well. My project is on Catalog browser and it has class comments , >> dont know if this exactly what you want but it may be a good start. >> >> Obviously there are a ton of things you can do with a web page that >> Morphic will not offer you out of the box. >> >> You can use Html as the front end / GUI and keep Pharo as the backend, >> thats how most web apps made with Pharo work. This you get the full power >> of Html/JS and Pharo. Seaside has classes that map html to pharo methods so >> you dont have to write html and js, and also I remember a pharo library >> dealing with CSS. >> >> Another option is to use a GUI API like QT , I have tried this with my >> python bridge and it works at least on a very basic level, again similar >> recipe to the above solution. >> >> But yeah if you are not too demanding I think Morphic will serve you >> well. Personally I only like Morphic , its the only GUI API that does not >> kill my inner child. >> >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 5:44 PM Tommaso Dal Sasso < >> tommaso.dalsa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello everybody, >>> >>> I have a question about the UI toolkits available for Pharo. I already >>> asked something about this on Slack, but since I saw that there was a >>> recent discussion about UI in the mailing list, I think this is a better >>> place to discuss the matter. >>> >>> I am writing an application for Pharo where I am displaying some >>> structured text. The structure is similar to the one of a web page: A >>> main title with a list of paragraphs, where each paragraph has a title >>> and a description. >>> >>> What I would like to do is to format the text to present the contents in >>> a meaningful way: For example, I would like a bigger font for the title, >>> and change the background of the text, to give a better separation >>> between the paragraphs. Basically I would like to manipulate and display >>> my contents as I would do in a web page. >>> >>> To write UI widgets I usually use Spec, but I found that going beyond >>> easy formatting (e.g. bold text and emphasis) is harder than I thought. >>> I saw there were discussion about the styling text and the role of the >>> theme class, using TextStyle but that part is not really documented. >>> >>> So far, the easiest way to solve my problem seems to be to use Morphic >>> to display the contents as I want it, and then include my widget in my >>> spec application. >>> >>> Do you have any suggestions about how to do that? I think that styling >>> the UI widgets is an important part of the application development, but >>> it is really hard to find documentation about this. >>> >>> Thanks, have a nice day! >>> Tommaso >>> >>> >>> >> >
