*Sandro*
re: "android" may be there is a middle way?
keep user pivot api unchanged, then
provide some middle-layer bridge api inside pivot
which maps user pivot api to either java.awt or android.graphics
Thank you,
Andrei
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: pivot and touch screen?
From: Sandro Martini <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Sat 19 Jan 2013 11:06:57 AM CST
> Hi Francis,
>> I did a kiosk POC using Pivot that ran on a touch all-in-one PC. This was
>> back in v1.4.
> good th hear :-) ...
>
>> It worked fine. It lacked features to enlarge various attributes---the up
>> and down arrows on a increment/decrement field is one I remember---but, no
>> major showstoppers that I recall.
> good, probably we could improve something in the skin is there are
> only small adjustments to do (if someone needs them) ... tell to us.
>
>
> @Andrei:
>> on the same topic: any experience with pivot on android?
> no, I'm (really) sorry, but to achieve this we should rewrite all the
> graphics back-end, so it's an huge task.
> There is a JIRA issue to generalize the graphics backend, for a future
> release, to start going in that direction.
> But even after this there is the problem of how to handle
> Android-specific things, so it would be really hard ...
>> I remember there was some talk about android in 2010, right?
> yes, this is a thing that we started to discuss many time ago.
> And personally speaking, the fact that Pivot currently doesn't run on
> Android devices (mainly tablets and then even smartphones) for me is a
> big trouble !!
>
> So my proposal (some time ago) to start a new project derived from
> Pivot (but fully-incompatible, targeting HTML 5 and no more Java at
> client side) where we could try to build web applications in a
> Pivot-like way (declarative User Interface, skinnability, diiferent
> kind of graphics output inside the browser, etc ...).
> The idea for this (discussed even with Apache Board) was to start it
> somewhere (for example in GitHUB) and see if there is people
> interested, and then maybe return to Apache. I created a (near-empty)
> project on GitHUB, you can find here:
> https://github.com/smartiniOnGitHub/buoi/
> It's in my near-infinite todo list, so if someone is interested, tell me :-) .
>
> Of course I want to keep Pivot alive and continue to develop it, but
> now we should be able to target even other platforms ... at least for
> me. Because for Desktop applications Pivot makes sense.
>
>
> For comments, suggestions, etc we are here ...
>
>
> Bye
>
