Re: [Help-smalltalk] (GUI) Dialog (and Cincom VisualWorks compat)

[bill-auger]

the proliferation of dialects has been the bane of smalltalk since the
early days - there have been efforts over the years to unify them
in order to make the codes more portable but the efforts were mostly
disjointed and none were universally adopted - it was even standardized
by ANSI at one point and still to this day few smalltalk dialects
follow the standard

on the other hand it is very simple in smalltalk to write wrappers
around just about anything - GNU smalltalk has bindings to GUI toolkits
such as GTK, but it can also interface with any native library; so it
would be uncomplicated to write bindings to any other toolkit such as QT
or whatever

if the task at hand is plainly "present a GUI dialog window to the
user", then yes GNU smalltalk can already do that OOTB - surely it is
not the exact name of the class that is important?