On 29 Jan 2014, at 16:37, J.F. Rick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Pavel Krivanek <[email protected]> > wrote: > I would like to continue in the direction started with the Morphic-Core. It's > a subset of Morphic that is able to be loaded into a headless image, > initialize itself and show world with one basic responsive morph. > > There's a question of what is necessary for a modern GUI core. To me, we need > to get out of BitBlt rendering completely and towards vectors. Reliance on > BitBlt makes Pharo seem slow and outdated.
+ 1 This is why I asked igor to work on Athens and we are nearly there. We need this ^%^%&^( texteditor and to move the morph to drawOnAtehns however it will not come automagically. When ronie will be back in chile Igor and christophe should pay program on the text editor. > Pixelation is so early 1990s. Novices also don't understand that a slow GUI > isn't indicative of everything being slow. There's no reason Pharo's UI can't > be fast enough that you can't tell the difference between it and a native > app. That would do a lot to make Pharo more palatable to newcomers. First > impressions are critical. + retina :) > We should also make it easy for people to build animations and build them > into the core tools (when it makes sense). Most modern OSs feature great > support for animation. Even if these things are largely eye candy, they do > change people's perceptions. I'd love to be able to do something like this: > aMorph resizeToBounds: (100 @ 100 extent: 200 @ 200) inSeconds: 2. Did you check Viva on petitsBazars on my repo because this is proto that igor built for a GSOC project (that failed) > Speaking of which, it would be nice if orientation could be included into the > equation. Perhaps support for affine transforms would be standard. There also > should be substantial support for vector graphics. The Athens SVG input is a > good step forward, but I'd like to see something that seems very Pharo-native > and that can be exported to SVG, rather than something that seems very close > to SVG XML (as is now the case). Ideally, I'd like to do the old demo of > rotating a browser and still using it but have it still look smooth (i.e., no > pixelation). Yes I think that this is already possible (but without text) > Another thing to perhaps address is how morphs are controlled and resized. > Currently, when we change the extent, then the top left corner remains the > same. For most cases, keeping the center the same would be more intuitive; > vvvv does that and is fairly easy for programming novices to use. It would > also allow us to combine rotation and scaling in some ways: > aMorph rotateAndScaleBottomLeftTo: 300 @ 20. "keep the center stationary” I (with esteban) already cleaned the margin mess by introducing Margin and it cleaned some code. We cleaned a lot 200 users of layoutFrame with Igor. Nobody noticed it but we fixed a lot of code. Stef > > Cheers, > > Jeff > > -- > Jochen "Jeff" Rick, Ph.D. > http://www.je77.com/ > Skype ID: jochenrick
