Thanks for tackling this; wizards can be very useful, and Pharo should have an easy way to create them. So far, I have only loaded the package, run the example, and glanced at the hierarchy.
Purely cosmetic, it would be good to defaullt to "<< Back" and "Next >>" for the buttons. There will always be other buttons to add in weird cases, but the first/last/middle panes can do reasonable things unless customized. Is there a way to fix a size for the wizard? Changing to the size of the current pane is powerful, but also looks strange. I am suspicious of the WizardPart heirarchy. Are they controls that can only work in a wizard? It seems unlikely, or perhaps that there should be a more generic hierarchy of controls/presenters that work in wizards and anywhere else. Put another way, I fear that their existence highlights something missing in Pharo. TEasilyThemed gets close to providing ways to create useful controls, but it IMHO falls short on the presenter/model side. Gary didn't like the idea of default models, but I still think there is room for improvement. A list shoud have something that provides its needed selection index aspect, allowing one to think in terms of the object corresponding to the selection. Value models and adapters (particularly aspect value adapters) offer a great view from the top of the learning curve. One thing that I like about Polymorph (and Magritte and Seaside) is that domain objects get a active say in their graphical representation. Dolphin's MVP framework typically forces a GUI onto the model rather than letting the model grow one to suit it. A good compromise might be to create analogs to Dolphin's presenters with those (rather than the controls themselves) being produced by something like TEasilyThemed. The Smalltalk code creating the presenters could include just enough layout objects and methods to do the job of the Dolpin view composer and layout managers. At least I _think_ it could work that way - great stuff if I'm at all close to thinking straight. Bill ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cyrille Delaunay Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 10:06 AM To: pharo-project Subject: [Pharo-project] Merlin: a library to build Wizards Hi everybody, Just send this email to inform you that I have developed a small library ( called 'Merlin' ) that provide a simple structure to build Wizards. It is available on squeaksource at: http://www.squeaksource.com/Merlin. You will find a small example in the class side of 'WizardControl'. I have been making this library to build a Moose wizard that enable to select packages and some importations informations. Therefore, you can see this other example by loading Moose with: 'ConfigurationOfMoose loadDefault '. It will load all required classes. The Moose Wizard will be in the package Moose-Wizard. So, feel free to test it or use it if needed :)
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