and btw... for that kind of work is incredible simpler to use glamour (you can have exactly the same browser in 15'... I know that because I made it for mongo databases :). At the unique price of load glamour.
Esteban On Jun 22, 2012, at 9:16 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > do not confuse Nautilus and Spec. Nautilus is (or should be) defined using > Spec. > > Spec is the framework for building UI. We are slowly rewriting all the tools > based on spec while learning and improving Spec. > Ideally we would like to be able to reuse a builder PAINTER (a tool to place > widgets on the screen) and to generate Spec. > > Stef > > On Jun 22, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Hernán Morales Durand wrote: > >> First let me apologize for asking without properly evaluating first. I took >> some time and read about Nautilus which it seems a very nice work. I've >> developed a phylogenetics classifier using OmniBrowser, but I wondered if >> Nautilus could save me some effort, and I'm planning to test Pharo 1.4 or >> 2.0 in some future in which AFAIK OmniBrowser will not be supported anymore. >> >> - Some time ago I've modified the OmniBrowser framework to browse anything I >> wanted in the "code pane" (the lower pane typically used for >> displaying/editing code), as we had a complex OODB it was very useful, see >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxUaOFRHFPk for a demo. However it was not >> easy to understand the OB internals and make the modifications. Have you >> tried to implement such feature in Nautilus? >> - There is documentation for developing browsers with Nautilus? Something >> which explains the basic architecture, how it differs from OB? for example: >> --Do you have to define a metagraph? >> --May I have multiple definition panels? >> -Do you have a mapping for each node type (class?) with each column? >> -OB is not cross-UI (it depends on Morphic). Can I use a Nautilus browser >> within a web browser? >> - Another thing which is really easy is to define Commands in OB, (although >> the #isActive logic could become a mess without some care). How it is >> different in Nautilus? >> >> I'm sure I would rewrite my browsers with Nautilus, my key question is how >> much of the OB knowledge I can re-use? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Hernán >> >> -- >> Hernán Morales >> Institute of Veterinary Genetics. >> National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). >> La Plata (1900), Buenos Aires, Argentina. >> Telephone: +54 (0221) 421-1799. >> Internal: 422 >> Fax: 425-7980 or 421-1799. >> > >
