Re: [Help-smalltalk] Porting OmniBrowser

[Giuseppe Luigi Punzi]

Jan Vrany escribió:
> On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 14:10 +0200, Giuseppe Luigi Punzi wrote:
>   
> > Can you repeat the URL please :P
> >     
> Oh, sorry. Once again:
>
> http://smalltalk.felk.cvut.cz/download/vranyj1/OmniBrowser.zip
>   

Downloaded. I will check it.
>   
> > Can you explain a little until where you advanced?
> >
> >     
> Hmm, I did it in one evening a year ago...
> Well, I'll try to dust-off my memories:
>
> 1) OmniBrowser consists of many packages. Loading up-to-date
>    version of them from monticello is not the best way, simply
>    because they might not work together. Better to look at latest
>    dev-image and use versions in that image. At least in initial 
>    phases...
>
> 2) OB (including OB-Browser) uses lot of Squeak classes and methods - 
>    they must be ported also. ActionSequence.st,   
>    Squeak-compatibility.st, SystemOrganizer are just some of them.
>    This may require lot of "run-see-port from squeak" round trips.
>   

I'm starting to sweat :P

>   
> > Jan, could you please share your idea from the widget point of
> >     
> view?  
>
> 3) I planned to make it pure GTK-based. I'm personally not convinced
>    that BLOX is the right way. 
>   

And are you working on this now?

> Jan
>   
Cheers, and thanks.