lessphic? may be a future for morphic

stephane ducasse stephane.ducasse at free.fr
Thu Jan 31 20:55:39 UTC 2008


thansk for the video I always wanted to see it running.

Stef

On Jan 30, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Juan Vuletich wrote:

> Hi Gulik,
>
> Morphic 3 supports arbitrary non-linear coordinate systems. I don't  
> understand how you envision rendering over those targets. Morphic 3  
> has a rendering engine that renders on Squeak Display, as current  
> Morphic's canvases with Balloon 2D and BitBlt.
>
> Please read my documents, and let's talk about coordinate systems!  
> Currently I have implemented Cartesian, LogX and a few cartographic.  
> Watch the demo at Smalltalks 2007 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90TGhRZUSOo 
>  . It is worth watching even if you don't understand my Spanish.
>
> Cheers,
> Juan Vuletich
>
> Michael van der Gulik wrote:
>>
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>>
>> Some time in the next couple of years, I'll need a secure graphics  
>> API for my SecureSqueak project. The basic idea is that I need as  
>> thin a layer of abstraction as possible over various 2-D graphics  
>> targets: X11, MS Windows, Mac, Postscript/other printer APIs,  
>> OpenGL, VNC and possibly libraries such as Cairo. It would also  
>> need to do some event handling, as many events rely on a particular  
>> coordinate system. GUIs such as Morphic or Tweak would run on top  
>> of this.
>>
>> Does your Morphic3 project have a base which could target all  
>> these? So far all I'm seeing is talk about bizarre coordinate  
>> systems.
>>
>> Gulik.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> http://people.squeakfoundation.org/person/mikevdg
>> http://gulik.pbwiki.com/
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