Well Spec from what I understand requires a model for each thing you add to it which makes classes bigger and unecessary complex. I also dont like the name defaultSpec which for me mean nothing and creates confusion. Other classes I see use name defaultSpec2 which makes even less sense. Generally speaking Spec is a library that I find very hard to figure out from example and reading the code compared to Morphic. Also a shortcoming of spec is that is not designed to be custom gui friendly from what I see since it seems to just wrap morphs if you want custom element guis.
Also I dont understand why we need initialise and instiate , looks to me like Spec requires too many definitions to add stuff together which is an area that Morphic excel AFAIK where in example of Morphic all you have to do is addMorph: in Spec it appears to me there so many steps. If I want to add a button then I should using a single line of code. Generally speaking my Nireas class is an extremely simple GUI that is uneccessary complex. Sure I could brake the GUI to smaller Spec widgets but for me that makes no sense for such a small GUI. I cant see with all this overhead how Spec would be useful for me for very complex guis I want to create in the long run when Morphic design is so clear to me. Another thing to note here is that I have read the Spec documentation again and again and it has been a seriously struggle to make sense of Spec because of this complex and weird design. Morphic on the other hand has been a walk in the park for some guis I created with it because its design is so simple and elegant. I never read docs on Morphic , I just take a look at Morph examples and immediately understand how things work. Saying that I had issues understanding how treemorph worked and cant say I liked the code. That also may have to do with how I work which is that I was raised with legos so I love to assemble things together instead of abstracting them away which I think is what Spec tries to do. So Morphic definitely fits my way of thinking better. On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Johan Fabry <jfa...@dcc.uchile.cl> wrote: > > > On Dec 19, 2014, at 07:44, kilon alios <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > See this is where we get in the area of personal preference, I find Spec > very ugly. I mean really , really ugly. I used it to develop my theme > manager Nireas and I definetly dont like its workflow and now I am > seriously looking into porting Nireas back to Morphic and developing my own > library to fix Morphic shortcomings. > > I ask this to understand the problem: can you tell me what you find really > ugly about Spec, why you don’t like its workflow, and why Morphic does it > better in your opinion? > > TIA > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry > PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > > >
