On 23 October 2013 08:12, J.F. Rick <s...@je77.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The latest Pharo vms for all 3 major platforms support Athens with Cairo >> as backend. >> It is our starting point, one day we might choose to have different >> backend(s), like opengl etc. >> > > Excellent. I'm mainly using Linux. > > >> For the ipad , best would be to implement a quartz backend for athens. >> As a temporary solution we could try to compile cairo library for it, but >> i am not expert in iOS >> to say if it can be done without much fuss. >> Also, since iOS is famous for banning any applications which using >> generated code, >> that means it should be done by writing a VM plugin and then adopting new >> primitives to >> work with Athens API. >> > > While I would love to use such a thing on iOS, I'm afraid that VM making > is beyond me. That said, if somebody does it, I do have a few multi-touch > tools, such as a keyboard, that I'd be willing to port to it. > > Increasingly, touch based machines are going to replace mouse based > machines as the dominant paradigm. >
Mouse i much more precise than fingers. I doubt it going to be replaced. I think it will stay. > If we can create a great development environment for touch, we'd have a > good chance to really invent the future. Graphic processor accelerated > graphics are part of that. A rewrite of the events infrastructure, both to > simply the current mess and to add touch support, is part of that. > > Yes, what interesting that morphic from the very beginning supports multiple hands concept, which fits well with multitouch. Of course you need to handle things a bit different, but still it is good basement. > Cheers, > > Jeff > > -- > Jochen "Jeff" Rick, Ph.D. > http://www.je77.com/ > Skype ID: jochenrick > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
