Yes, morphic should make it all very easy, but doesn't do the trick  
quite yet.  I did an alternate drawing canvas a while ago for  
generating Postscript, and it turned out that the device independence  
really wasn't there yet, with much drawing logic actually residing  
in specialized morphs that blit their results to the FormCanvas.

Fortunately, Andreas is working on an overhaul that should fix this  
(see Dan's list of 2.5 updates). I hope this will enable me to  
finally finish this piece of work that has been idling ever since I  
got the message that Squeak Central was going to address this.

Anyway, I was able to actually use a slightly modified version of  
the Postscrtip canvas for interactive drawing on a DPS-based system,  
so it should be possible to generalize this code to output to just  
about any sufficently powerful high-level graphics API/format ( X,  
VNC, GDI, QuickDraw, PDF, ...).

Marcel

> From: "Lex Spoon" <lex at cc.gatech.edu>
>
> Unfortunately, all is not roses.  I took a run at this yesterday,  
and got deterred
> by the way Morphic recreates canvases frequently, and by the  
desire to make it
> work in MVC as well.  Maybe t will be better in 2.5, but in any  
case it's going to be too
> large of a project for me to take on at the moment.