Greg, I am looking at Pivot 1.5.1 documentation now. If it is best to hold on until 2.0 before diving deep, when are we looking at? We have a UI to get running here and we want to move on it ASAP.
Thom On 2010-09-21, at 11:03 AM, Greg Brown wrote: > Pivot currently supports a "scene graph" API that can be used to construct > vector images. The node classes are defined in > org.apache.pivot.wtk.media.drawing. Some simple examples are available in the > tutorial: > > http://pivot.apache.org/tutorials/drawing.html > > PIVOT-318 discusses adding SVG serializer support to the drawing API (in > other words, the ability to load a Pivot shape hierarchy from SVG). We have > also talked about doing something similar for FXG (an Adobe vector graphic > format). However, we have been focusing on some other areas recently so it > hasn't gotten much attention. > > SVGSalamander sounds great. Unfortunately, it is released under LGPL which > isn't compatible with ASL 2.0. However, it should certainly be possible to > use it in a Pivot app - we do something similar with JFreeChart, which is > also LGPL. > > The easiest thing to do might be to create a custom subclass of > org.apache.pivot.wtk.media.Image that wraps SVGSalamander. This should be > pretty straightfoward, but let us know if you have any questions. > >> Also, when is Pivot 2.0 available and is there a roadmap? > > We don't have a definitive timeframe for Pivot 2.0, but we're pretty close to > wrapping up development. If you are just starting with Pivot, I might suggest > beginning with 2.0 - though we still have testing and documentation to do, > the feature set is pretty solid at this point. > >> P.S. Hey, it was a good day! JavaFX Script got dumped and JavaFX 2.0 will >> not be seen until Q3 2011. You guys are way ahead already and the road is >> clear for miles and miles. Go Pivot Go! > > Thanks! :-) > > Greg >
