Beauty with less Beast
We've always prided ourselves that Dolphin is one of the "better looking" Smalltalks out there. Indeed, when we first started, I think Dolphin was the first Smalltalk IDE to use icons to represent classes in the various browsers. As a result, it's been pretty easy to use icons to represent objects and toolbar commands, both as part of the IDE and in end-user applications. But, and here's the crunch, it has always been necessary to load these icons from external files. More…
MVP just Visual Basic with "more wing nuts"?
Dolphin's MVP framework continues to appear daunting to new Smalltalk users and yet it's really rather similar to Visual Basic but with "more wing nuts" to allow components to be easily taken apart and the pieces reassembled in different ways. Perhaps revisiting the design rationale behind MVP might help? More…