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I don't know much about Smalltalk. Is a GUI designer supposed to be a mandatory piece of an implementation?
by forgotpwd16 5y ago
I don't know much about Smalltalk. Is a GUI designer supposed to be a mandatory piece of an implementation?
- smackeyacky 5y agoIn the 1990s it was. VisualAge, Dolphin, VisualWorks and Digitalk all had gui painters. They were competing against Visual Basic and things like Powerbuilder. For a lot of customers, a gui painter was the killer part of the deal, because back then it was notoriously hard to make interfaces. They have fallen out of fashion I guess but for rapid development back then, if you didn't have a gui painter you didn't sell your dev environment. I am pretty old fashioned, I just expected some minimal painter to be available in Pharo, maybe somebody can point one out. The tutorials for the Pharo gui environment are quite daunting. The VisualWorks ui painter is awful but at least it exists.