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From: vlad@world2u.com (Vlastimil Adamovsky)
Subject: Re: Challenge: WindowBuilding?
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lab@facstaff.wisc.edu (Computer Systems Lab) wrote:

>.......I claim to be able
>to explain both why people use WindowBuilder (and similar tools)
>under smalltalk, and why it probably isn't necessary. Interested? 

While I understand, that it is not necessary to use WindowBuilder,
can you explain me why it is not probably necessary to use such
similar tools. Of course you can hack it by hand, but it is much more
effecient to have some kind of GUI or application builder.

>..... I claim to have some good arguments against 
>code-generation under Smalltalk. 

I agree with you. It is quite a nonsense to generate code after all
the design in GUI builder has been done. Instead it should be saved
"persistently" in to a special file, that can be loaded as needed.
Thus we can avoid further pollution of Smalltalk image.




 Vlastimil Adamovsky
 ** C++ and Smalltalk consultant**

