[ANN] Rome

Rome is a 2D rendering framework made available by VPRI under MIT license:

        http://www.squeaksource.com/Rome.html

The primary backend for Rome is a plugin using Cairo
(http://cairographics.org), additionally there is a reference
implementation completely in Smalltalk, and one using the Balloon2D engine.

Rome is currently used in the TinLizzie and Sophie projects.

- Bert -

Thanks VPRI for that cool piece of software

On 31 août 06, at 15:19, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

Great, I've been waiting for this to happen. Thanks a lot for
publishing the code!

Cheers,
Lukas

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Do we need some tweak package in order to see the demos ?
demos expects CIdentityTransform

Thanks

Cédrick

I'll note lurking on my IDisk
via
http://www.smalltalkconsulting.com/squeak.html
follow the link to the johnmci/FileSharing.html

you find in the Sophie Folder a

        RomePlugin.1.0.0.bundle.zip

which is a mac universal plugin, also note the existence of the  
FT2Plugin.2.2.1z.bundle.zip, however
the Rome plugin includes Freetype 2.2.1 so  you do NOT need the  
FT2Plugin, it's still there as Sophie transitions technology.

On 31-Aug-06, at 6:19 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

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Am 31.08.2006 um 17:13 schrieb Cédrick Béler:

Ah, those Tweak classes need to be replaced with the appropriate  
DisplayTransform subclasses for demo.

Originally Rome was developed for Tweak using Tweak transforms and  
fill styles only. I spent some time making it work in plain Squeak,  
too. It should depend on the Graphics package only.

I did not fix the demo and tests packages. If you want to send me a  
fixed package, I can integrate it.

- Bert -

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Ah, those Tweak classes need to be replaced with the appropriate
> DisplayTransform subclasses for demo.
>
> Originally Rome was developed for Tweak using Tweak transforms and fill
> styles only. I spent some time making it work in plain Squeak, too. It
> should depend on the Graphics package only.
>
> I did not fix the demo and tests packages. If you want to send me a
> fixed package, I can integrate it.

Eventually, we should try to reintegrate some of it via the graphics
packages. It's been on my list for a while already, e.g., move some of
the graphics stuff out of Morphic and into the graphics packages. By the
end of the day one should be able to load Rome+Graphics and use that for
either Morphic, MVC, or Tweak.

Cheers,
   - Andreas