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I am so thrilled about everything Oberon-related. From the article: >Any Oberon procedure can be made available to the user as system command, provided certai

I am so thrilled about everything Oberon-related. From the article: >Any Oberon procedure can be made available to the user as system command, provided certain conventions are followed. They are known as Tools. [..] >It is possible to allow such Tools to act on user interface elements selected by the user. This is a way more flexible UX/UI paradigm than any OS out there provides.

f6e9ed793b 8y ago
> This is a way more flexible UX/UI paradigm than any OS out there provides. Symbolics Genera also adopted this approach. Here are some good posts about it on alt.os.multics from Dan Weinreb: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/multics$20commands$20weinreb$20symbolics/alt.os.multics/jSrsVqTMrGk/LkY51z5hLsMJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/multics$20commands$... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/multics$20commands$20weinreb$20symbolics/alt.os.multics/rVBaCq8sN3c/m9Vwt8f11OIJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/multics$20commands$...
choudanu4 8y ago
Does anyone know where I could get more information on Tools?
- pjmlp 8y ago
  Sure, You can read the Project Oberon 1992's book, sections 3.3 and 3.4 as starting point. http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/ProjectOberon.pdf http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/ProjectOberon.pdf Then you can follow up with the 2003's edition. https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.h... With a stop in the last pure Oberon iteration, Oberon System 3 Gadgets. http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ethoberon/tutorial/ http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ethoberon/tutorial/ Oberon Companion describes gadgets and tools http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.472.5256&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.472... The existing PDF book has a couple of rendering issues, but if you install BlueBottle, it has Oberon System 3 as demo application, with the original book in Oberon rich text format (not to mix with RTF). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6NMJh0noDk&index=35&list=WL&t=3s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6NMJh0noDk&index=35&list=WL... Which by the way, also describes the Tools on its manual, A2 User Guide and Application Description http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/Documentation/Front http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/Documentation/Front https://github.com/btreut/a2 https://github.com/btreut/a2 The surviving ISO images https://sourceforge.net/projects/a2oberon/files/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/a2oberon/files/

f6e9ed793b 8y ago

> This is a way more flexible UX/UI paradigm than any OS out there provides. Symbolics Genera also adopted this approach. Here are some good posts about it on alt.os.multics from Dan Weinreb: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/multics$20commands$20weinreb$20symbolics/alt.os.multics/jSrsVqTMrGk/LkY51z5hLsMJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/multics$20commands$... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/multics$20commands$20weinreb$20symbolics/alt.os.multics/rVBaCq8sN3c/m9Vwt8f11OIJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/multics$20commands$...

choudanu4 8y ago

Does anyone know where I could get more information on Tools?

pjmlp 8y ago
Sure, You can read the Project Oberon 1992's book, sections 3.3 and 3.4 as starting point. http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/ProjectOberon.pdf http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/ProjectOberon.pdf Then you can follow up with the 2003's edition. https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.h... With a stop in the last pure Oberon iteration, Oberon System 3 Gadgets. http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ethoberon/tutorial/ http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ethoberon/tutorial/ Oberon Companion describes gadgets and tools http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.472.5256&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.472... The existing PDF book has a couple of rendering issues, but if you install BlueBottle, it has Oberon System 3 as demo application, with the original book in Oberon rich text format (not to mix with RTF). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6NMJh0noDk&index=35&list=WL&t=3s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6NMJh0noDk&index=35&list=WL... Which by the way, also describes the Tools on its manual, A2 User Guide and Application Description http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/Documentation/Front http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/Documentation/Front https://github.com/btreut/a2 https://github.com/btreut/a2 The surviving ISO images https://sourceforge.net/projects/a2oberon/files/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/a2oberon/files/