Alex Rice wrote:
Hi All, i am pretty new around here. Glad to see Squeak is so active still.
I have been looking at new Squeak apps like Sophie and Scratch.
pretty cool! makes me want to learn Smalltalk. Out of curiosity I
have read some of the FAQs about how to deploy a Squeak application. i
understand about image files, the VM, and the basics.
I was wondering about Scratch in particular. It seems really nicely
done. i am impressed because it's so nice looking and it launches
really fast too.
1) How do they get it to launch so fast? It launches in <1 second on
my system. In comparison, Squeak 3.9 takes like 15 seconds to launch.
Sophie takes about 6 seconds. Why the disparity between these 3
examples?
Squeak 3.9 and Sophie uses other font rendering which could slow start
up time.
Sophie uses Tweak which is another GUI.
Scratch is built in Squeak 3.4.
2) The Scratch user interface is attractive and responsive. Is that
Morphic, or MVC or some other UI toolkit?
Scratch is morphic.
Thanks,
Alex Rice
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