On 30 May 2012 20:24, Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Tim Felgentreff <tim at nada1.de> wrote:
>
>> There's plenty of problems, and performance isn't great, but do people
>> think better OpenGL integration is something that's still worth
>> pursuing? (not necessarily based on GLMorphic)
>
> Yes! My dream GUI would be a Smalltalk widget library that draws into
> Areithfa Ffenestri windows via OpenGL (or maybe Cairo). Native windows
> would play nicely with the OS window manager, and Smalltalk widgets
> would give us a consistent experience across platforms. Visualworks is
> going in that direction with Cairo, and Igor's nascent Athens project
> looks interesting, but we haven't really seen such a beast yet.
>

Yes, one of the goals of Athens is to incorporate it as default
graphic framework
for Morphic (and for rest of stuff of course).
At some point, i will certainly start implementing OpenGL backend for Athens
and will certainly use some of the work from GLMorphic.

> Colin


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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.