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Inertia is a live user interface environment similar to Squeak and Self, in that there is no distinction between edit and runtime program modes. Prototypes have been written in C++, Io, Dylan, and now Ruby. It's a research project, so new ideas are being prototyped and explored. But it also has the goal of being very usable. Simplicity is one of the major goals.


Files

Presentation
PowerPoint 2000 4.25 MB
  Presentation
PDF• 640 KB
  Video Demo 1
Cinepak AVI • 5.9 MB
  Video Demo 2
Cinepak AVI • 6.0 MB
ruby-inertia-0.6.zip
Source + EXE • 4.0 MB


Screen shots


Inspiration

http://research.sun.com/self
http://www.squeak.org
http://www.cliki.net/CLIM
http://www.cooperatingsystems.com
http://www.guidebookgallery.org
http://www.nooface.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVC

The Art and Science of Smalltalk, 1995
C++ Programming with MacApp, 1990
Learning Cocoa, 2001
Ruby in a Netshell, 2002
Smalltalk by Example, 1997
The X Window System in a Nutshell, 1992
The BeOS Bible, 1999