It’s kind of a pity that to make something sexy we still have to use Morphic… Hopefully this will change with Bloc & Bric
> On 24 Jun 2016, at 10:25, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In my case is just personal preference none the less Spec has ways to wrap > morphs to Spec widgets so you should be able to build Spec widgets using > Morphic for more flexibility. You dont have to decide to use Spec or Morphic, > you can use both. Last time I checked Spec came with examples on how to do > this and I think Spec docs also mention this. > > Also I think Athens is very good at rendering text (because its wraps around > the Cairo library) , so maybe you can take advantage of that though I > suspect Bloc may be even better choice in this case because it is based on > Athens and it is fully compatible with Morphic. > > There is also a text widget that is being build that is much more flexible > with handling text > > https://vimeo.com/67752734 <https://vimeo.com/67752734> > > Be advised though that both Bloc and TxText are far from finished > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 1:28 AM Tommaso Dal Sasso <tommaso.dalsa...@gmail.com > <mailto:tommaso.dalsa...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Personally I don't dislike the Spec approach, but the API still looks not > expressive enough for doing things beyond the standard. > > I am deepening my knowledge of Morphic now, thanks for your answer! > Tommaso > > > > On 22/06/16 17:11, Dimitris Chloupis wrote: >> Documentation is always a problem. >> >> I dont use Spec because I dont like it , but I use Morphic for my project >> ChronosManager. I do some "styling" for example use different fonts for >> different labels , different sizes , I format strings to time stamps and >> even offer easy ways for user to change them without modifying the whole >> string. >> >> You can do a lot with Morphic, though I have not played with layout stuff >> since this GUI is static and image (PNGs) based but yeah Morphic can do that >> as well. My project is on Catalog browser and it has class comments , dont >> know if this exactly what you want but it may be a good start. >> >> Obviously there are a ton of things you can do with a web page that Morphic >> will not offer you out of the box. >> >> You can use Html as the front end / GUI and keep Pharo as the backend, thats >> how most web apps made with Pharo work. This you get the full power of >> Html/JS and Pharo. Seaside has classes that map html to pharo methods so you >> dont have to write html and js, and also I remember a pharo library dealing >> with CSS. >> >> Another option is to use a GUI API like QT , I have tried this with my >> python bridge and it works at least on a very basic level, again similar >> recipe to the above solution. >> >> But yeah if you are not too demanding I think Morphic will serve you well. >> Personally I only like Morphic , its the only GUI API that does not kill my >> inner child. >> >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 5:44 PM Tommaso Dal Sasso >> <tommaso.dalsa...@gmail.com <mailto:tommaso.dalsa...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> Hello everybody, >> >> I have a question about the UI toolkits available for Pharo. I already >> asked something about this on Slack, but since I saw that there was a >> recent discussion about UI in the mailing list, I think this is a better >> place to discuss the matter. >> >> I am writing an application for Pharo where I am displaying some >> structured text. The structure is similar to the one of a web page: A >> main title with a list of paragraphs, where each paragraph has a title >> and a description. >> >> What I would like to do is to format the text to present the contents in >> a meaningful way: For example, I would like a bigger font for the title, >> and change the background of the text, to give a better separation >> between the paragraphs. Basically I would like to manipulate and display >> my contents as I would do in a web page. >> >> To write UI widgets I usually use Spec, but I found that going beyond >> easy formatting (e.g. bold text and emphasis) is harder than I thought. >> I saw there were discussion about the styling text and the role of the >> theme class, using TextStyle but that part is not really documented. >> >> So far, the easiest way to solve my problem seems to be to use Morphic >> to display the contents as I want it, and then include my widget in my >> spec application. >> >> Do you have any suggestions about how to do that? I think that styling >> the UI widgets is an important part of the application development, but >> it is really hard to find documentation about this. >> >> Thanks, have a nice day! >> Tommaso >> >> >
