its possible also to use Bootstrap directly, Pharo can use html and js as its GUI. Actually in pharo website, the vast majority of pharo apps are web apps and so they use HTML5/JS for their GUI or any compatible technology.
I use Morphic as basis for my GUIs, generally I avoid the higher level classes because they tend to have messy implementation and recreate them myself choosing a design and api that makes sense to me. Its surprisingly easy but under the condition that you make simple GUI elements, like buttons, custom text fields etc. Something more sophisticated obviously will be harder to make. Morphic is as beautiful at its low level parts as it is ugly for its high level parts. Also the paradox with Morphic is that you may find zero documentation for its more recent features which are mainly higher level gui elements but for its old stuff , there is plenty. for example http://handbook.selflanguage.org/current/morphic.html http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/morphic Warning: Documentation may be outdated Alternative solutions do exist , Spec is the obviously third most favourite after HTML5/JS and Morphic and its very well documented, its has the advantage that it can covert with easy morphic to spec gui elements so what you learn for Morphic you can carry it on to Spec. On the experimental front you could go for any well known IDE and use an IPC method. I have played around with Pharo and QT and I have made it work through my python bridge but never took it very seriously and I only did only the most basic experiments. Of course because what I executed was python code from Pharo there was very little reason for it not to work. The disadvantage is that you have to know Python , a language which is extremely useful to know anyway because of its immense popularity, and QT, and understand how sockets work, regular expression parsing and SmaCC. The good news is that all of the above are well documented but still its a steep learning curve. The advantages will be that you will be using a super powerful , high performance GUI API like QT and with the added bonus that you will have available to you QTCreator as a GUI designer a tool that pharo severely misses. If you are aiming for a very powerful , difficult and complex GUI that must be super high performance, this is really a very good choice. The same approach of IPC (socket based in my case) can work for any other language and any other library which means you can use any GUI API of any language under any platform. Even HTML/JS GUIs for Pharo use a similar approach with websockets, so its pretty much a well tested method. GTK, Cocoa, Winforms, WxWidgets and a ton of other GUI APIs are at your fingertips. If you prefer to stick with Pharo all the way and love cutting edge sharper than a katana, then Bloc becomes a viable options but remember , its called "cutting edge" because it can easily cut you up in pieces so arm yourself with patience and resilience. On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 8:02 AM CodeDmitry <dimamakh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I want to have a bootstrap-like navbar at the top of my pharo GUI to store > commonly accessed features/custom hierarchies of menus. > > My first thought is that I should spend a bunch of time playing with Morphs > and invent my own MVC(models being the state managed by the menu, views > being the controls(morphs), and controllers being asynchronous blocks of > code that are invoked when events occur). > > Are there any good resources that teach how to go around doing stuff like > this, or do I have to reinvent it myself by researching how Pharo GUI works > internally, and figure out how to do this by successful incremental > experiments? > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/What-is-the-correct-way-to-go-around-implementing-a-GUI-feature-in-Pharo-tp4919772.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
