This is impressive! We are moving right! Alexandre
> On Oct 19, 2016, at 1:06 PM, Aliaksei Syrel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > I am happy to announce the release of Sparta v1.1 for Pharo 6. > https://github.com/syrel/Sparta/tree/v1.1 > <https://github.com/syrel/Sparta/tree/v1.1> > > It can be bootstrapped with the following script: > > Metacello new > baseline: 'Sparta'; > repository: 'github://syrel/sparta:v1.1/src'; > load: #file:core > Examples are on class side of: MozExamples, MozTextExamples > > (for linux users: if you use 32bit pharo on 64bit linux, sparta will not > work, since 32bit plugin depends on 32bit GTK which conflicts with 64bit GTK. > Either use 32bit linux or 64bit pharo. I tested sparta with 64bit vm on mac > and linux - it works, but some features fail because FFI is not ready) > > Release of v1.1 is focused on hardware acceleration, windows support and text > rendering. > > What is new: > > - Default backends on all platforms changed from software to hardware > accelerated. > - Now also works on Windows! Default backend is Direct2D for drawings and > DirectWrite for text. On multi-gpu machines per-app-default setting is > respected. In case of Nvidia it can be changed in nvidia control panel. > Sparta is x2 faster on discrete gpu than on integrated one. > - Added initial text support, for instance rendering and high precision > measurement. > - Per-platform settings system is now image based. Allows to enable/disable > hardware acceleration, change default backends, change font-mappings tables. > > Some text examples: > > (rendering) > <sparta-text-haiku.png> > > (measurement) > <sparta-text-measurement.png> > > > Cheers, > Alex
