[UI] Just a thought...

[Igor Stasenko]

i just discovered something which may be of you interest :)
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3269
See 'melt' filter. I think you can use it for smearing background

2008/4/19 Gary Chambers <gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com>:
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> Backwards compatability is always an issue, especially here. Wondering if we
> can really move things onwards now...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Michael van der
> Gulik
> Sent: 18 April 2008 4:44 AM
> To: Squeak's User Interface
> Subject: Re: [UI] Just a thought...
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> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Gary Chambers <gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com>
> wrote:
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> > It might be nice that we have some more paint rules in BitBlt. A
> "fuzz/blur"
> > effect would be nice and take the load off the Squeak code for such
> things.
> >
> > Just wanting to get more contemporary with the ui look without large
> > performance penalties.
> >
> > Not quite liking the way that effects are hidden behind canvas (leading to
> a
> > bloated interface, perhaps (c.f. #drawImage... #drawTranslucentImage...)).
> > Not sure where the balance should be. Looks like a choke-point that is too
> > useful to bypass on a case-by-case basis.
> >
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> If you were to implement some more interesting effects in BitBLT, how would
> you make sure that Morphs that use this code will still work on other
> targets such as Rome, Postscript Canvases, VNC etc?
>
> Gulik
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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.