Hi, Check at this : https://github.com/estebanlm/crono Is a fairly advanced application so you will probably have some issues to get into (also because I didn't have time to properly document it yet). Esteban
On May 11 2021, at 12:21 pm, mark.odonoghue.2...@gmail.com wrote: > I’m trying to return to Smalltalk after a 15+ year break (VisualAge, ENfin/2 > ST-80 etc), and have been trying to get back into the saddle with Pharo 8 and > Pharo 9. > > Since I have no legacy code - I’ve opted for Pharo 9 knowing a stable release > isn’t far away. > My goal is to produce several applications for private use, and regain some > competence in Smalltalk along the way. The apps are business > accounting/investing style apps - not too technical. I’m really not keen on > the prospect of using any of the other ‘mainstream’ alternatives we have > today. > I’m confident I can build a domain model easily enough, but the Pharo > environment is my stumbling point - especially building the GUI with Spec2. > I’m really spinning my wheels trying to get a useful Spec2 application built. > It needs to have menus, a toolbar, tabbed notebooks, tree lists etc - plus a > dozen or so tabular panes (to view/maintain my domain model). Ideally it > would also be able to use ODBC or UDBC or Excel etc for transaction storage. > I’ve been through all the building blocks in SpDemo but there a just too many > concepts to familiarise with and test bit by bit as I buildup a more > realistic functioning application. It has been very frustraing and time > consuming. > I understand why there are not yet solid guides available (book, tutorial, > examples) , so I thought the best way would be to use an existing Spec2 > application to help me get it going. I think this would save me many weeks of > effort. > Could anyone point me to at a working non-trivial application that I could > share and use a starting point. > Any suggestions to help me get into the heart of my application would be most > welcome…!
