ncmagel@ndsuvax.UUCP (ken magel) (10/07/85)
Does anyone have details on how to use the following classes of Smalltalk in
order to build a nice Macintosh-like user interface?
Dispatcher
Menu
Pane
Subpane
Textpane
I am especially interested in a convenient way to allow the user to input text
based on a prompt from the application. Thus I suppose one needs the Prompter
class as well.
I know there is supposed to be a fourth book from Addison-Wesley on
implementing user interfaces, but none of the book stores around here sell it or
know how to get it.
Thanks in advance. johnson@uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU (10/12/85)
/* Written 6:54 am Oct 7, 1985 by ncmagel@ndsuvax.UUCP in net.lang.st80 */
Does anyone have details on how to use the following classes of Smalltalk in
order to build a nice Macintosh-like user interface?
Dispatcher
Menu
Pane
Subpane
Textpane
/* End of text from uiucdcsp:net.lang.st80 */
What version of Smalltalk do you have? None of these are in the one I
use, which is version 2 (using the bs interpreter on Suns). The version
I've seen has View, TextView, ListView, etc. and Controller, TextController,
ListController, etc. I learned to use them by reading the source code.
The fourth book (on the user interface) has never come out.
What's this about building a Mac-like interface? Smalltalk already HAS a
Mac-like interface! More precisely, the Mac has a Smalltalk-like interface.
Are you using Smalltalk-80, or something else?
Ralph Johnsonputnam@steinmetz.UUCP (jefu) (10/14/85)
In article <147@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncmagel@ndsuvax.UUCP (ken magel) writes: > I know there is supposed to be a fourth book from Addison-Wesley on >implementing user interfaces, but none of the book stores around here sell it or >know how to get it. I talked to Addison-Wesley last week about the 4th book. Publication has been indefinitely delayed. So... Help! I would like (as an excercise, and experiment in prototyping) to implement a terminal emulation window thingamabob in Smalltalk. So far, what i have manages to crash Smalltalk every time i try to close the durn thing. And _all_ that i have is a small model-view-controller triad. -- O -- jefu tell me all about -- UUCP: {rochester,edison}!steinmetz!putnam Anna Livia! I want to hear all.... -- ARPA: putnam@GE-CRD