On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 7:08, Emre Turkay wrote:
On 6/13/07, Peter A Trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If the application is then used on a different form factor device you
can
simply produce a new SVG file. All the UI script and images are linked
to
the SVG.
This also gives us a nice separation of people who are good at making
things
look good and those of us who know the loop preconditions /
postconditions
without even thinking.
If openmoko is to deal with multiple different devices/resolutions
this will
be a key feature.
I totally agree that openmoko graphics should be in a vector graphics
format. Generate the bitmaps bigger for neo and maybe smaller for
iphone, etc. Storing the generated bitmaps in .png or .svg files does
really don't much matter. If .svg provides embedding bitmaps, why not.
emre
As I understand it, you would not even need to build a different svg
file. You could use the same one and it could automatically scale
because the engine would scale it.. It should be possible (in my mind)
to take a layout for 320 x 240 and draw it perfectly at 648 x 480.. Any
image bitmaps would be out of sync unless you changed them but if its
all done in svg it would render perfeclt. Same the other way.. All
ratios would be the same (assuming a smaller display in the same
orientation and proportional dimensions) so the exact same skin and
theme would not need translation at all (except any embedded bitmaps).
Again, that's how I understand it currently.
--Tim
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