Graphics Library Driven by Michael McCreary We have been working for some time on moving LiveCode's 2D rendering to use Skia, an open source library maintained by Google. The initial purpose for this project is to facilitate the rendering LiveCode stacks at any scale (Resolution independence). It is possible that we'll also see some rendering performance improvements but we'll only know once the project is complete. Progress report: This project is almost complete. The only remaining step is to hook in text rendering. The estimated release date of a test version for this is the end of August. Resolution Independence Driven by Ian MacPhail The aim of this project is to take away the need to LiveCode developers to do extra work when creating an app that is required to run on devices with different screen densities. For example, developers who write an app for the iPad2 (1024x768) currently have to manually upscale their objects, graphics and images by hand to support the iPad3 (2048x1532). With resolution independence, LiveCode will perform all this scaling automatically as well as selecting the appropriate density of image from your app bundle. Users will be able to create an app at one scale and let LiveCode scale it up or down to meet to density of the screen of the target device. Progress report: LiveCode can now display a stack at any scale on Mac and iOS! We are busy porting this to all platforms at the moment. The final step is to update the image object to select the appropriate density of image automatically. The estimated release of a test version for this project is the end of August. <http://newsletters.livecode.com/july/issue153/newsletter1.php> -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Ben's progress report in the latest newsletter includes some truly great
additions, coming up faster than I'd thought would happen - thanks RunRev!
