Ah, a disclaimer: so far, just me and a little bit Santiago tested this installation... for sure you will find problems. Feel free to ask :)
Esteban On May 11 2021, at 12:57 pm, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@netc.eu> wrote: > Hi, > > Check at this : > https://github.com/estebanlm/crono > Is a fairly advanced application so you will probably have some issues to get > into (also because I didn't have time to properly document it yet). > > Esteban > > > On May 11 2021, at 12:21 pm, mark.odonoghue.2...@gmail.com wrote: > > I’m trying to return to Smalltalk after a 15+ year break (VisualAge, > > ENfin/2 ST-80 etc), and have been trying to get back into the saddle with > > Pharo 8 and Pharo 9. > > > > Since I have no legacy code - I’ve opted for Pharo 9 knowing a stable > > release isn’t far away. > > My goal is to produce several applications for private use, and regain some > > competence in Smalltalk along the way. The apps are business > > accounting/investing style apps - not too technical. I’m really not keen on > > the prospect of using any of the other ‘mainstream’ alternatives we have > > today. > > I’m confident I can build a domain model easily enough, but the Pharo > > environment is my stumbling point - especially building the GUI with Spec2. > > I’m really spinning my wheels trying to get a useful Spec2 application > > built. > > It needs to have menus, a toolbar, tabbed notebooks, tree lists etc - plus > > a dozen or so tabular panes (to view/maintain my domain model). Ideally it > > would also be able to use ODBC or UDBC or Excel etc for transaction storage. > > I’ve been through all the building blocks in SpDemo but there a just too > > many concepts to familiarise with and test bit by bit as I buildup a more > > realistic functioning application. It has been very frustraing and time > > consuming. > > I understand why there are not yet solid guides available (book, tutorial, > > examples) , so I thought the best way would be to use an existing Spec2 > > application to help me get it going. I think this would save me many weeks > > of effort. > > Could anyone point me to at a working non-trivial application that I could > > share and use a starting point. > > Any suggestions to help me get into the heart of my application would be > > most welcome…!
