On May 16, 2011, at 7:55 AM, Matthew Swank wrote: > I am porting the Morphic GUI tool kit, Or more specifically the subset > that is implemented in morphic.js: > http://www.chirp.scratchr.org/blog/?p=34. > > I am a little overwhelmed by the options for rendering the GUI to screen. > The JS implementation uses html5 canvas elements where Canvases, > Images, and Contexts are rolled into or are part of the same object. > > In am a relative novice in graphics programming, so it's hard for me > to differentiate among the merits of the various bindings available to > common lisp to do this. However, using the html canvas code as > guide, I am gravitating towards some sort of high level canvas that > writes to a lower level back end (vecto -> lispbuilder-sdl, cl-cairo). > > Does anyone have guidance on the best way to approach this? Should I > consider "raw" SDL surfaces, perhaps with SDL_ttf for font rendering? > Is OpenGL a reasonable option for what is essentially a 2d > environment? > > Matt
Not completely sure I understand what you need. The XMLisp approach (http://code.google.com/p/xmlisp/) is to create GUIs as DOM-like structures of 2D (Cocoa controls) and 3D (OpenGL views). The controls are platform native (OS X, Windows). Control actions are written in Lisp in a way to make it quite simple to mix 2D and 3D content. Alex Prof. Alexander Repenning University of Colorado Computer Science Department Boulder, CO 80309-430 vCard: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/AlexanderRepenning.vcf
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