From: Jimmy Thrasher <jjthrash@...>
Date: 2001-10-26T22:17:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23438] Re: GUI / was [ANN] RubyInRubyParser   0.1-pre-alpha

At 09:56 PM 10/26/2001 +0900, you wrote:
> > While I agree with you, I'm still on a Squeak-is-really-cool high, and I
> > like the idea of Ruby having such an environment, unhampered by native GUI
> > toolkits.
> >
>Yes, that would be nice, especially if its very portable. I'm unsure how
>SDL compares here (to Squeak's BitBlt for example). Do you know?

SDL provides a Blitting routine which would do what we want.  It's also 
very portable and has been ported to many of the standard platforms (Win32, 
Linux, BeOS, MacOS, OSX).  The only issue with it is that it's designed for 
writing games, and hence has some limitations, like having only one window 
per process (I think), not being able to resize the window (I think), etc.

>I haven't played with Morphic. Could you give a short description of its
>main benefits. (Or was it in earlier mails, I missed it?)

Take a look at the main Squeak Swiki: http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/30

 From that page: "Morphic is primarily intended to be an interface for 
direct manipulation using scripting tiles for programming. However you can 
use it as well to build user interfaces with plain Smalltalk code. As 
Morphic is still work in progress the distinction in the tutorials is often 
somewhat blurred. Sometimes the code doen't work in a newer version 
(unfortuately)."

Also: "Imagine a system as immediate and tactile as a sketch pad, in which 
you can effortlessly mingle writing, drawing, painting, and all the 
structured leverage of computer science."

Hope that helps,

Jimmy