> Will be internal drawing methods in Morph switched to Athens drawing by > default in future?
You can do the drawing in Athens. It is up to you. Using Athens will make your rendering faster and nicer (if you use the Cairo binding, which is the default binding). If I would be a beginner who want to understand what there is, I would simply give a try to Spec, bloc, and plain Morphic. In any case, your application logic should be independent from the UI. Because UI is frequently changing (have you though about exposing your UI on the web?) Cheers, Alexandre > > >> 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 >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;.
