Moz2D looks pretty great and the stateless argument makes sense. Furthermore there is an isolation layer.
Interesting reads: https://blog.mozilla.org/joe/2011/04/26/introducing-the-azure-project/ http://robert.ocallahan.org/2011/09/graphics-api-design.html https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/Moz2D https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/gfx/2d/2D.h Having browser grade speed views in a OSWindow is enabling. Cairo is not going to give us super speedy UIs, sorry, just check the demos we have in the image, they are sluggish. Phil On Thu, 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 > > > >
