johnson@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu (11/19/86)
The story that I've heard is that "Creating a User-Interface" will never be published. One of the reasons might be that the Smalltalk user-interface toolkit is undergoing massive changes, and they didn't want to publish something that would soon be obsolete. Smalltalk really needs a good book describing how to use model/view/controllers. One of its greatest strengths is its user-interface and the ability it gives to Smalltalk programmers to quickly create complicated graphical user-interfaces. M/V/C both needs and deserves to be well described. I see more and more systems that are take-offs of M/V/C. Of course, the derivation is never mentioned, and it might not even be known by the authors, since they borrowed some ideas from someone who borrowed some ideas, ... , from Smalltalk. Ralph Johnson