Tweak is a
graphical user interface
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(GUI) layer written by
Andreas Raab
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for the
Squeak
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development environment, which in turn is an
integrated development environment
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based on the
Smalltalk
Smalltalk is a purely object oriented programming language (OOP) that was originally created in the 1970s for educational use, specifically for constructionist learning, but later found use in business. It was created at Xerox PARC by Learni ...
-80 computer programming language. Tweak is an alternative to an earlier graphic user interface layer called
Morphic. Development began in 2001.
Applications that use the Tweak software include
Sophie
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* Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson
* Soph ...
(version 1), a multimedia and e-book authoring system, and a family of virtual world systems:
Open Cobalt
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The technology makes it easy to create deepl ...
,
Teleplace,
OpenQwaq
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, 3d ICC's Immersive Terf and the
Croquet Project
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.
Influences
An experimental version of
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* Etoys (programming language), an educational programming language
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* etoy, a conceptual art group
* Electronic toys, typically built for ...
, a programming environment for children, used Tweak instead of Morphic.
Etoys was a major influence on a similar Squeak-based programming environment known as
Scratch
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Science and technology
* Scratch (programming language), an educational programming language developed by the MIT Media Lab
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.
References
External links
Tweak
Programming tools
Smalltalk programming language family
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