Progress of Drawing in SWT or WPF or OpenGL

[DreamTangerine <dr...@hotmail.com>]

Any progress ?
How I can help ?

Thanks
DreamTangerine.

Re: Progress of Drawing in SWT or WPF or OpenGL

[Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,
this is something we have scheduled (many months ago) for Pivot 3.0
(in development next year) because it needs many changes in many
places ... I remember that Greg made some tests on it.

An old thread on this is here:
http://apache-pivot-users.399431.n3.nabble.com/Re-Pivot-SWT-td412953.html

I absolutely agree on OpenGL support (for example even for Android, at
least for some parts), but things are no-so-simple and dependencies
will be more complex (there are many implementations to chose from,
and any of them requires native code, are big libraries, etc) ... so
if anyone is interested even for discussion, help is welcome :-) .

Note that something has already been done (but not by us):
http://www.interactivemesh.org/testspace/j3dmeetspivot.html
but from our point of view we should abstract the graphics back-end
inside Pivot.


I don't find a dedicated issue for this in our JIRA (I was sure
something already existed), could be time to create one and start to
put some info there ...

Comments ?

Bye,
Sandro

Re: Progress of Drawing in SWT or WPF or OpenGL

[DreamTangerine <dr...@hotmail.com>]

On vie, 2011-07-22 at 13:36 -0400, Greg Brown wrote:

OK, I will think and play with this
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/agile2d/

and think how to integrated with pivot.

> > After reading this
> > http://apache-pivot-developers.417237.n3.nabble.com/Drawing-in-SWT-or-WPF-td2169321.html#a2172900
> > 
> > I thought that was some project trying to drawing in SWT and WPF and
> > OpenGL, is any project ?
> 
> It is something we have talked about occasionally in the past, but nothing has been done to date.
> 
> > In any case I think is an interesting idea to make pivot portable or
> > cross platform, and I think OpenGL is more widespread, so porting to
> > OpenGl is a plus.
> 
> At the time I posted that question, my primary interest was in SWT since, like Java2D, it is a major player in the Java UI world. WPF already has a well-established UI toolkit so that is not quite as interesting. I was just trying to get a sense for how various drawing engines represent strokes.
> 
> G
> 
> 

Re: Progress of Drawing in SWT or WPF or OpenGL

[Greg Brown <gk...@verizon.net>]

> After reading this
> http://apache-pivot-developers.417237.n3.nabble.com/Drawing-in-SWT-or-WPF-td2169321.html#a2172900
> 
> I thought that was some project trying to drawing in SWT and WPF and
> OpenGL, is any project ?

It is something we have talked about occasionally in the past, but nothing has been done to date.

> In any case I think is an interesting idea to make pivot portable or
> cross platform, and I think OpenGL is more widespread, so porting to
> OpenGl is a plus.

At the time I posted that question, my primary interest was in SWT since, like Java2D, it is a major player in the Java UI world. WPF already has a well-established UI toolkit so that is not quite as interesting. I was just trying to get a sense for how various drawing engines represent strokes.

G

Re: Progress of Drawing in SWT or WPF or OpenGL

[DreamTangerine <dr...@hotmail.com>]

Sorry.

After reading this
http://apache-pivot-developers.417237.n3.nabble.com/Drawing-in-SWT-or-WPF-td2169321.html#a2172900

I thought that was some project trying to drawing in SWT and WPF and
OpenGL, is any project ?

In any case I think is an interesting idea to make pivot portable or
cross platform, and I think OpenGL is more widespread, so porting to
OpenGl is a plus.


On vie, 2011-07-22 at 12:36 -0400, Greg Brown wrote:
> I don't understand the question. Can you provide a little more context?
> 
> On Jul 22, 2011, at 12:11 PM, DreamTangerine wrote:
> 
> > Any progress ?
> > How I can help ?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > DreamTangerine.
> > 
> 
> 

Re: Progress of Drawing in SWT or WPF or OpenGL

[Greg Brown <gk...@verizon.net>]

I don't understand the question. Can you provide a little more context?

On Jul 22, 2011, at 12:11 PM, DreamTangerine wrote:

> Any progress ?
> How I can help ?
> 
> Thanks
> DreamTangerine.
>