"Direct manipulation doesn't quite get you the code (in

the way Interface Builder does.)"

Actually that is pretty much what IB was doing in the beginning ... :D It instantiates the objects and then archives them.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 6:44 PM, David Corking lists@dcorking.com wrote:

Jason,

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011, Casey Ransberger wrote:

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WRT Morphic and direct user interface construction: this isn't fantasy.

You

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can actually do this today, as it was one of the original drivers for the system when it was conceived in Self, as an evolution of Randall Smith's Smalltalk based Alternate Reality Toolkit (ARK.)

I agree with Casey: it is not fantasy.

However, with Squeak / Pharo, direct manipulation gets you _instances_ of morphs. To fit the Smalltalk programming paradigm, you need a class and methods (at least a drawOn: method, but probably some event handlers too.) Direct manipulation doesn't quite get you the code (in the way Interface Builder does.)

But ...

(1) You can probably figure out the code using an inspector and a little arithmetic.

(2) Morphic Players get real Smalltalk code behind them that you can see in your changeset browser.

(3) Have you seen this yet?

http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=ST_4U_...

David