Hello Vikenti, for writing UIs in Pharo the UI builder you should use is Spec. We have documentation online in the form of a book (which is a work in progress).I think it will answer many of your UI questions, have a look at http://files.pharo.org/books/spec-tutorial/
HTH, -- Does this mail seem too brief? Sorry for that, I don’t mean to be rude! Please see http://emailcharter.org . Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD and RyCh labs - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > On 02 Nov 2016, at 18:43, vikenti <vikenti.pota...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, i'm newbie in Pharo, converted from Visual Works which is quite > different from Pharo Smalltalk. > I started to port my application (i've been working on for about three > years) from VW (because of new personal user licensing limitations of Visual > Works), but i have to solve some problems and need your advice. > > These ase some of the most important problems: > 1. I need to rewrite the whole GUI from scratch. What UI framework to > choose and where to get documentation? Please, don't send me to research > code examples instead of docs - i do this during whole last week. The > example should be complete and simple: one task - one example, all examples > i've seen are either not applicable to real life or too complicated to > understand. > - I need simple window with menu (how to attach menu items to menu > handlers???? - no answer in examples) > - Toolbar with icons (how????????) > - components (as i understand - Morphic subclasses, it is the simplest > part) > - when window opens i need handler to do some setup actions. Handler should > fire after UI is built and my app's window is opened (how?????) > - i need another handler, which fires when you try to close Pharo or > application's window. Handler must check whether to close window or not and > do allow or not to close my application. > - how to programmatically close window?????? > > 2. The next task is to do some work on image load (i mean pharo image). I > need some handler which fires immediately after image is loaded. How to > include my handler in this chain???? My app saves data into the image so i > need to manage this and auto-load _my_ application after startup. > > 3. How to drag-n-drop from the host operation system into pharo application > and vice versa? I need to drag-n-drop a list of files from\to file browser. > > 4. Application deployment. How to strip the unnecessary code from the image? > I've heard there is "small image" to add all-i-need-to-run. Where i can > download it and how to use it???? > > > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/Pharo-desktop-UI-tp4921212.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
