Hi Stef, There was a misunderstanding. Alex was just listing the need of underlying technologies for the features that Bloc already supports.
Let’s restart this conversation. He will send an explanatory email. Cheers, Doru > On Jan 26, 2017, at 10:27 PM, stepharong <stephar...@free.fr> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > Then we will need Cairo + SDL2 (that does not work for us) > > I do not get why SDL20 would not work for us while it is used by gaming > engines. Are we that special? > We built interactive applications for Thales with complex event touch and now > suddenly "it does not work for us" TM. > I have the impression that each time I see Bloc we need something more > special (now this is Gtk) > To me it looks like it is a systematic "fuite en avant" with even more Mb > consumption each time. > > Personally I do not care of blur and effects, or color max filters. Right now > you do not even have a single example of something that is not a little > demo. > > Why we cannot have a tk/tcl or red-language like working system? I mean > working now and not relying > on multiple MB of code extracted from an existing project? > > + Freetype2 (for fonts) + Graphite (glyphs shaping technology in order to use > them within vector graphics engine) + cross platform OpenGL / Vulkan > context/device provider for hardware acceleration + implement Filters for > effects (blur, lights, color matrix filters, etc...). > > Without all those technologies bloc WILL progress, from 80's to 00's. Still > decades behind :) > > Well I would prefer to have something from the 00 working now that from 2016 > not working. > > Because now what I will do is continuing to work on Morphic because this is > what I have. > You see I removed graphics from my future books. You probably do not care. > In the future I will concentrate on anything else than graphics and widgets > like that I will have no frustration. > Hacking the compiler finally should be a lot nicer. > You see next week I go to visit alain and I will not discuss nor work on such > topics like that no frustration. > > Finally I will not comment anymore on Bloc anymore. I should not have. > You do not seem to understand my point so I will shut up but years will pass > before Bloc will be integrated in Pharo, because > integrated means maintained by us in case the guys behind bloc/brick get > hired by anybody else on earth. > > > You seem to underestimate that part. > Ok you are super right and I'm super wrong. > > Stef -- www.tudorgirba.com www.feenk.com "Be rather willing to give than demanding to get."
