On 2015-10-30 10:35, Frans Schoffelen wrote:
So how do we get started?
Well, on the SVG front things have already started:
https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/3089
This still needs a bit more work (we're hoping to have it ready for
LiveCode 8 DP9) but currently does the following:
- Adds the ability for the engine to render SVG as part of its
libgraphics library (internal, low-level)
- Wraps this facility with canvas syntax which widgets can use
- Adds an SVGView widget which displays an svg file which has been
set on it using an 'svgText' property
At the moment the SVG parser / renderer can cope with multiple
transformed paths and shapes in solid colors with opacity (gradients are
being irksome - there's something up with the transforms which I haven't
gotten quite right yet).
We're also looking into allowing an image object to have its text set to
SVG, or its filename set to reference an SVG file. If we can make this
work then it means SVG will be usable (via the image object) as icons in
buttons and imageSrc references in fields (as well as patterns!).
Additionally, we'll investigate adding properties to the image object to
indicate that the SVG should be pre-rendered as an image automatically.
The reality is that compositing a pre-rendered image is a *lot* faster
than rendering anything but exceptionally simple SVG - so providing a
mode where pre-rendering occurs means that SVG used in images will have
very similar performance characteristics to non-SVG images (after the
initial rendering step). The goal here is that you can replace stacks of
multi-resolution images with a single SVG file with hopefully only a
small cost to pay on app startup.
Another thing we could potentially do is add a 'path' property to the
graphic object which would take and return a (normalized) SVG path - I'm
still poking around to see what it would take to do this. Obviously we
will be replacing the graphic object with a new 'shape' object at some
point, however it seems sensible to try and see if we can at least add
the 'path' related facilities planned for it to the engine sooner.
Warmest Regards,
Mark.
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Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
LiveCode: Everyone can create apps
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