For now, Athens uses the software renderer of Cairo to draw into a Cairo Surface. We get it back to the Pharo, buy telling a Form to load the bits of the Cairo surface.
Would be nice to have another renderer for Athens, besides Cairo, to use a hardware accelerated renderer. OpenGL backend for Athens would be great. NBOpenGL is already there. So it would a matter of having another AthensCanvas, and AthensSurface that uses OpenGL to draw. Yet, the current scheme is fast enough! So i don't know wether this is a priority. Fernando On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:11 PM, dimitris chloupis <theki...@yahoo.co.uk>wrote: > So after diving in common lisp and take a look at various alternative I > decided that Pharo is the best place for me to start for my Ephestos > project. The first thing that got my attention is Athens , it seems to be > very close to my own goal for Ephestos. So my question is how may I help > Athens involve by contributing code to it ? > > Are there specific features I can work on ? The first part of my Ephestos > project I call it Morpheas and its basically a GUI API based on morphic > specialised on customised guis, meaning guis that do not look native . > Athens seems a good library to base Morpheas on, so I am actually > interested in expanding it. > > In the future I would also like to port Athens to opengl , but if cairo is > fast enough for me, I may avoid it and instead focus more on porting > Morphic to Athens. > > So my post here is to clarify the way I can contribute to Athens . I want > my project Ephestos to be a contribution to the existing Pharo image and > offer more GUI widgets, maybe a gui designer and some more graphic and > audio tools. I think that Athens can be the base for my project so > naturally I want to contribute. >
