Thanks (to all). So, the best way (for now) is the old friend Morphic. Will be internal drawing methods in Morph switched to Athens drawing by default in future?
pf > Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] What UI direction now (or in the near future)? > From: Alain Plantec <alain.plan...@yahoo.com> > Date: 25. února 2015 20:17:46 SEČ > To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> > > Hello Petr, > > So far we have Morphic (Athens is the next underlying framework for 2D > Drawing). > Thanks to Nicolai, Athens is near to be fully integrated. > We have Spec for widgets composition. > > Regarding Bloc: > >> Sub-questions: >> >> A) Is Bloc (complete Morphic rewrite, sigh) “one man show”? What about >> future, support, long-term issues? Look at Marina CMS framework, even used >> for Pharo website, but not maintained now… > > I’ve started Bloc with Stephane. So far I’m the main developper, But, you are > perfectly right. No future for Bloc if it stays like that. > We’ve stopped adding because now, design decisions are to be made regarding > the widgets layer. > Currently, we are writing a documentation of the core. The next step is to > make it available in the hope we will get feedbacks and also to bootstrap > contributions from the community. > It will take time. Be sure that I will stop Bloc if we stay only two or if > someone else come and propose something better than Bloc. No problem, I’ve > fun with Bloc. > > Spec will stay, so we will also have to build new adapters to be able reuse > tools. > >> >> B) Is Bloc prepared with Retina displays in mind (perfect smooth fonts and >> graphics, scaling, more detailed images for retina etc.)? > > Bloc bring nothing on that point except that it is is based on Athens > >> >> C) Is current keyboard + UI component focus support perfect or pain in… > > I guess yes :) > > Cheers > Alain > > >> >> Isn’t a “bad time” for this decision (Pharo) now? >> >> Thanks very much for any brief hint, Petr Fischer >> >> >> > > > >
