Hey cool! Morphic could eat less by just reducing the frame rate and also use simple forms and pens to draw things.
Also we have opengl under and could do a lot of interesting optimizations through plugins. I am onboard to work with you on that. Once the VM is built properly that is. I am currently writing an app for the iPad and the touch UI is really sometging different indeed. Pharo on iPad has the potential to be a killer app for development. A dynabook come true. Paired with a bluetooth keyboard on portrait position like with the zagg I use it looks like an alto of 2012! Le 27 mars 2012 14:32, "J.F. Rick" <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hi everyone, > > I've been lurking a little while here and thought I would jump in to see > if Pharo would be appropriate for what I want to do. > > First, here's a little background about myself. I'm an academic researcher > in human-computer interaction and educational technology. I've been > programming in Smalltalk since the early days of Squeak. For those who > remember, I wrote Swiki. I'm now doing work on multi-touch interfaces, such > as interactive tabletops and tablets. There's a huge difference between > designing interfaces for mouse / keyboard and designing for multi-touch. My > current research interests are in creating interfaces that are optimized > for the latter, rather than the former. Smalltalk is a great environment > for that, because you really can rebuild the GUI from the ground up. I've > gone ahead and worked off the work that John McIntosh did on iSqueak to > create several applications for iPad. > > I'm thinking of transitioning from Squeak to Pharo as the current > development state of Pharo is a bit cleaner than Squeak. I'm glad to see > that there is some interest in getting Pharo on iOS (though there do seem > to be problem). I'm not an Objective-C or C expert, so I wouldn't be good > at getting the VM to work, but I would be able to go from there to creating > some interesting widgets, frameworks, and apps that I could share with the > community. > > One major hurdle I see in my work is that Morphic is just too slow on > iPads. While I have been able to optimize the speed of my applications to > have them work on Morphic, it is a lot of extra work and I may eventually > get to a point where it won't work for what I need it to do. Is there some > sort of magic bullet for addressing this? Cairo? Does anyone have any > recommendations for addressing this inside Pharo? I'm not interested in 3D > interfaces, but rather fast 2D interfaces. Any advice would be greatly > appreciated. > > Cheers, > > Jeff > > -- > Jochen "Jeff" Rick, Ph.D. > http://www.je77.com/ > Skype ID: jochenrick >
