[UI] Just a thought...

[Gary Chambers]

Sorry Sig, thought I'd replied to this...

Appears to be juan's old work...
Looks a bit heavyweight and not addressing translucency blending into a "destination".

Won't worry about it for now, FuzzyLabelMorph will do. :-)

Regards,
Gary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:ui-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Igor Stasenko
> Sent: 24 April 2008 11:18 PM
> To: Squeak's User Interface
> Subject: Re: [UI] Just a thought...
> 
> 
> 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>:
> >
> >
> > Backwards compatability is always an issue, especially here. 
> Wondering if we
> > can really move things onwards now...
> >
> > -----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...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Gary Chambers 
> <gazzaguru2 at btinternet.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> >
> > 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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> 
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> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
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