On 24 May 2010 17:22, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, i actually want to do that.
>
> I'm trying to understand the reason of such a plan?
> Is it because like that the clients of existing rendering do not have to be 
> touched?
>
To make things minimally dependent on implementation.

>>
>> I plan to inject the new methods into a Morph
>>
>> Morph>>fullDrawOnRomeCanvas: aCanvas
>> Morph>>drawOnRomeCanvas: aCanvas
>>
>> which should tell the morph to use a different instructions/commands
>> to perform drawing,
>> to conform with RomeReferenceCanvas protocol.
>>
>> I don't want to repeat a balloon canvas protocol.
>
> what was wrong with it?
>

I did this once for GLCanvas, and don't want to repeat that again :)
The Balloon canvas and its uses is too damn focused on blitting, which makes
it too hard to provide a backend which doing most things on GPU.
If you want to go into vector world, you should keep a distance from
any blitting operations.
Simply because they are ineffective, CPU hungry and don't scale well.

>>
>> Then, eventually, when we will have everything ready,
>> we will be free to use different rendering backend than Balloon canvas.
>>
>> And its important to make it a non-intrusive.
>> So, the plan is:
>>
>> - create a separate package, which will contain extension methods
>> to Morph and its various subclasses. And maybe some little classes.
>>
>> - this package !!_should not_!! have any dependencies on Rome , and
>> should be loaded cleanly,
>> even if you don't have Rome installed.
>> It only should conform with Rome canvas protocol for implementing rendering.
>>
>> This will ensure a backend agnostic nature of new morphic rendering code.
>>
>> If you think this plan is cool, then lets pick a package name and
>> repository, and i will start happy coding :)
>>
>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>             Javier.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2010/5/23 Igor Stasenko <[email protected]>
>>>>
>>>>
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