[Cuis-dev] DSL GUI framework

[Hilaire Fernandes]

Hi,

Cuis' Morph is great, it is clean, easy to use, beautiful. One can code 
sexy view with it.

Nevertheless we still miss an intermediate framework in the Cuis 
ecosystem regarding GUI. Something between the Morph ecosystem 
(VectorGraphic, Layout,...) and the "honest human" programmer.

In the context of the Dynabook concept, where you write Smalltalk script 
to glue together different parts to produce a meaningful small 
applications, we need this intermediate DSL GUI framework to more easily 
design and write such small applications.

I took a brief look about some existing frameworks out there.

  * *Concur .* This interesting article[1] explains general concept on
    widget Space (Layout) and Time (Event) compositions. How it is
    designed the as simple as possible to compose. Some part are hard to
    understand because it relies on the Haskell programming language.
  * *Glimmer.* Ruby framework for GUI[2]. Resulting code looks already
    too complex to my taste.

Regarding space composition, it will be neat to write code as:

"horizontal composition"
('Morph is great:' asLabel , boolean asWidget)
"vertical compositions"
| ('I like Smalltalk:' asLabel , boolean asWidget)
| ('Ok' asButton)

This is just rough idea how simple the code should be. No idea yet about 
the code could be simple for Time composition (Event).

Interested to read your thought, reference materials or anything useful 
in the reflection.

Best

Hilaire


[1] 
https://potocpav.github.io/programming/2020/05/01/designing-a-gui-framework.html?utm_source=pocket_mylist

[2] https://github.com/AndyObtiva/glimmer

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