Wow!!! You have no idea how incredible I found to be reading something like this: "I am willing to invest years and if all goes well even decades of efforts since its an area that I love to code for". It definitely made my day! :-) Especially the last part, that you really *love* to code in this area (something I cannot but admire).
I always found the Squeak/Pharo environment so cool to code in, the "aliveness" of the image, but also had the feeling that the graphics system was a little outdated. Unfortunately being unable to do something about it, first because I have no expertise in the area, and second, because... well... I guess I'm lazy and not patient/talented enough for graphics programming ;-). It is therefor great that Igor and now you showed up, able to improve in this area, and also willing :-) To sum it up: I always thought that open-source Smalltalk should *look* as great from the "outside" as it is cool on the "inside" (the semantics). It simply deserves no less. So I am really grateful for any effort put in this. Pharo already looks great, much has been archived, and I can't wait to see what you guys will come up with next... Best regards, Sebastian 2012/11/25 dimitris chloupis <[email protected]>: > "eye candy" wise this is exactly the focus of my Ephestos project , Morpheas > section. A custom gui , gui designers for easy creating of GUIs by the user > and additional moprh widget with customized look including eye candy. > > I can't make any promises, as I have no clue what kind of obstacles and > technical limitations I am going to find in the process but I can tell you I > am willing to invest years and if all goes well even decades of efforts > since its an area that I love to code for. > > As a first part I am in the process of creating a tutorial generator which > will be ProfStef on steroids for at first offering tutorial for Athens and > later used for any kind of Pharo tutorial. > > I am also interested in helping Athens porting to OpenGL and generally using > NBOpenGL as the next step for Morphic. Excitting stuff the only thing it > worries me is the type of technical blocks / obstacles I may come across but > trying is certainly well worths it. > > > ________________________________ > From: Sebastian Nozzi <[email protected]> > To: Pharo Development <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, 24 November 2012, 17:06 > Subject: [Pharo-project] Athens OpenGL backend - what does it mean? > > Hello Pharo Devs, > > I am really excited about the direction Pharo is taking regarding many > areas - one of them being the graphics. I played with Athens a bit and > it's cool to see anti-aliased vectror graphics coming to Pharo. > > I keep reading about a possible OpenGL back-end in the future... what > would this mean exactly? > > For years I have been "dreaming" about graphic-accelerated "eye-candy" > effects inside of the Smalltalk environment. Like compiz-fusion > effects in Linux, or Quartz-Extreme powerded in OS-X (Exposé, etc.). > > Would this be possible with such a back-end? Or am I misinterpreting > things? I'm not a graphic-dev expert. > > Best regards, > > Sebastian > > >
