On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Igor Stasenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> The latest Pharo vms for all 3 major platforms support Athens with Cairo > as backend. > It is our starting point, one day we might choose to have different > backend(s), like opengl etc. > Excellent. I'm mainly using Linux. > For the ipad , best would be to implement a quartz backend for athens. > As a temporary solution we could try to compile cairo library for it, but > i am not expert in iOS > to say if it can be done without much fuss. > Also, since iOS is famous for banning any applications which using > generated code, > that means it should be done by writing a VM plugin and then adopting new > primitives to > work with Athens API. > While I would love to use such a thing on iOS, I'm afraid that VM making is beyond me. That said, if somebody does it, I do have a few multi-touch tools, such as a keyboard, that I'd be willing to port to it. Increasingly, touch based machines are going to replace mouse based machines as the dominant paradigm. If we can create a great development environment for touch, we'd have a good chance to really invent the future. Graphic processor accelerated graphics are part of that. A rewrite of the events infrastructure, both to simply the current mess and to add touch support, is part of that. Cheers, Jeff -- Jochen "Jeff" Rick, Ph.D. http://www.je77.com/ Skype ID: jochenrick
