Mark Grinnell explains what the ObjectStudio team has been up to lately - and it's some good stuff:

We were working on three current projects. The Modeling Tool on OS8 was one, although that is actually in very good shape now, thanks to the efforts of Dirk Verleysen. So we spent more of our time on project #2, the Mapping Tool. We were learning about glorp, working on the mapping tool GUI and retargeting the mapping tool to use glorp as the back end. With the Modeling and Mapping tools back and better than ever, we will have gotten back to one of ObjectStudio's traditional strengths - the ability to move very quickly and easily through design, implementation and delivery of a finished application.

Last but not least was the DLLCC GUI project. The purpose of that effort is to give a major facelift to ObjectStudio. The initial step though is to move all the behavior that lives in the many many GUI oriented primitives up to Smalltalk, using DLLCC to call the Windows API. Once complete, you'll have the same native widgets you love (and the same class hierarchy and protocol) but with everything finally visible in the Smalltalk image.  That will be our platform to move forward with adding shiny new widgets to our toolkit. This should also be of interest to VisualWorks users interested in Windows native widgets.

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