Nov 9, 2013

Spec - Part II - The Layout

GUI Development in Pharo Smalltalk using Spec. It covers the layouts and tidies up the Greeter application built in part I.

First of all: have you read the first part of this series yet? If not, please do so as we are going to iterate over what was done there.
As you recall, the greeter application which you built earlier was fully functional. However, it was not easy on the eye --in other words, it was very ugly. As promised, we will tidy it up in this episode.

Nov 7, 2013

Spec - Part I: The Basics

GUI Development in Pharo Smalltalk using Spec. It covers the basics concepts and walks you through the building up of a Spec version of the legendary "Hello, world".

Spec is a UI library for Pharo Smalltalk. Well, to be more precise, Spec is a library for describing UI elements, their properties and their behaviour. Under the hood the output of Spec is fed into a UI framework like Polymorph to draw the widgets on the screen....

Read the full article on my website.