On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 09:49 -0800, Christopher Barker wrote: > Jamie Bullock wrote: > > OK, that's done now. See > > http://morticia.cs.dal.ca/FloatCanvas/wiki/AlphaCircle > > great, thanks! > > > Feel free to amend as appropriate. > > Can I remove the "design flaw" comment? ;-)
OK, I just removed it, but don't forget *you* added that note, when I did the SmoothLines how-to, I just copied and pasted it across! Do you want the 'design flaw' bit taken out of the SL how-to also? > Why are the images black and white? That's a bit odd. Hm.. they're greyscale not b&w. Do you mean that the demo would be clearer if I used colour? > > > I wonder if this (creating a some > > more Mixins) might be a good starting point for integrating GC drawing > > into FloatCanvas.py? > > Yes, it would -- or just biting the bullet and making a commitment to GC > across the board. It's a difficult call. I think the advantage of doing it this way is that you can add extra functionality to FC that takes advantage of the extra advantages of GC and path-based drawing without having to worry about having a consistent interface for everything. There are things you can do with GC that simply can't be done with DC as we've already explored. OTOH: - GC _does_ incur a performance hit, and it would be nice to have the option of using DC in performance critical situations. For example in my Braun software (http://sourceforge.net/projects/braun), I have recently added the option of using anti-aliased lines. Using them increases load by ~30%. Anti-aliasing is enabled by default, but setting a flag in a config file turns it off it your computer can't cope. - If we work on supporting DC and GC, it will force us to provide an architecture that supports multiple backends, and therefore make it easier to add additional backends (SVG) in the future. (... or at least that's the theory... ;-) Jamie -- www.postlude.co.uk _______________________________________________ FloatCanvas mailing list [email protected] http://mail.mithis.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/floatcanvas
