Morphic - The Squeak User Interface
by Juan Manuel Vuletich
Squeak Morphic programming
styles
Partly
because of its history, and partly of its actual evolution, Morphic supports
several quite different programming styles. These are:
In the Classic and in Pluggable Views, programming is done in the usual
Smalltalk way: entering code in a Browser. But both Fabrik and User Scripting don't require code. Their final objetive is
programming by non-programmers. However, they are still in development. Let's
see what Squeak Central says about them. From "Scripting and End-user Access", we read:
"Squeak
Version 2 includes sketches of two entire end-user programming paradigms,
integrated with the morphic environment.
One is a
wiring metaphor inspired by Fabrik, which allows simple component assembly to
be performed the way you put a stereo system together. The implementation is
just a toy (no real dataflow model or encapsulation yet) but you may enjoy the
demonstration in Play With Me - 6.
The other is
a tile-based interface that offers viewers and scriptors as iconic and active
counterparts to Squeak's textual and more passive inspectors and browsers. It
has been taken fairly far in a number of directions, as you may discover by
following the introductory tour: Programming in Morphic."