On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Claus Kick claus_kick@web.de wrote:
Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:50:58 +0100, Claus Kick wrote:
Other than the looks, I do not like the "feeling", the speed, the absence of native widgets (why do everything yourself? you have an OS to participate from!)
I really like WxSqueak (http://www.wxsqueak.org; make sure to use the 0.5.1 version for the best experience!), I just wish I had a little more energy to be able to load it into a "current" Squeak system to take advantage of the new development tools. However, if you don't mind programming in a 3.8? image, you should check it out. It takes a custom VM as well, and I have had a hard time loading all the "goodies" I wanted into an image.
I know, even Cincom canned their "first new owner-drawn system, then on top of that native widgets if the platform allows"-Projects (Pollock/Panda/Chagall). Having worked a bit in that direction, I also know how tedious or more likely impossible a task this is.
Still, one has dreams or graphics contexts being written to the GPU directly ... hm, sounds like OpenGL, doesnt it?
I don't think you can do that in WxSqueak, but you can do some alpha blending...
Rob