On 30 May 2012 20:24, Colin Putney <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Tim Felgentreff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> There's plenty of problems, and performance isn't great, but do people >> think better OpenGL integration is something that's still worth >> pursuing? (not necessarily based on GLMorphic) > > Yes! My dream GUI would be a Smalltalk widget library that draws into > Areithfa Ffenestri windows via OpenGL (or maybe Cairo). Native windows > would play nicely with the OS window manager, and Smalltalk widgets > would give us a consistent experience across platforms. Visualworks is > going in that direction with Cairo, and Igor's nascent Athens project > looks interesting, but we haven't really seen such a beast yet. >
Yes, one of the goals of Athens is to incorporate it as default graphic framework for Morphic (and for rest of stuff of course). At some point, i will certainly start implementing OpenGL backend for Athens and will certainly use some of the work from GLMorphic. > Colin -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
