FW: Cairo and Pango viable for UI development? // Text2
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Hi Michael, Thanks for the positive and encouraging
comments on My only concern, is that this has been
along time coming. Travis started with It seems like it’s very much a
“do it yourself” deal – which is all well and good if you
have the chops and time to delve into the DLLCC stuff and compile libraries
etc. The examples in Store are flaky, and Pango seems almost impossible to get
to work. I’ve not been too fussed about the
UI in VisualWorks up till now, but it would just look “old and
clunky” on the apps store in its current form. I know this has been discussed at length
and various avenues explored, but I would put this at the top of the list
– please tell Cheers, Stewart -----Original Message----- Hi All, So Text2 doesn't improve the fonts per-se, but it does measure with
fonts correctly. If you have a decent Unicode font (Windows Vista+, OS X) then
you're sitting pretty. Linux / Unix is a bit of a different story which I won't
go in to depth about here. Tony and I have been keeping a close eye on CairoGraphics, but also on
HarfBuzz, which is MIT and the underpinnings of what Pango does. CairoGraphics
is not a dead end in our minds, not in the slightest, it's still the most
promising graphics platform we've used. We're in the processing of planning our priorities for the next version
of VisualWorks and we've been tossing around more work on CairoGraphics. I know
a lot of you are using it already. I have a great deal of enthusiasm for
CairoGraphics. I think its APIs are really rich and it's easy to use. I like it
a lot. The best I can offer at this point is "Watch this space" and
if you want better than that, "Pester Product Management" :) (psst:
That's Michael On
If I remeber well Travis never really managed to compile
Pango correctly on all platfroms as he did with Still think that if you take the GTK libraries you schould
be able to get it to work. And if you're a C programmer you might even be able
to extend the API to the rest of the Library ? My problem with Text is that VW text doesn't scale like I really would like to know how Text2 is going to handle
that ? Does it draw to a Cairo Context ? Regards, @Maarten, > "Stewart MacLean"
<[hidden email]> | Hi, I’ve been exploring the
feasibility of using Cairo/Pango for developing a user interface that would
primarily be akin to a tree Organisation Chart. I want it to look nice, cross
platform and zoomable, and from what I’ve seen good results can be
obtained with Unfortunately as I did a bit
deeper, it looks like it’s still very much experimental and a bit of a
“black art”. I’ve been unable to get Pango to work. I know What is the general
consensus? Should I pursue this avenue or maybe look at using SWIG to hook up
to Qt (which I have used successfully from Ruby, and looks quite nice), or
something else? All viewpoints
appreciated… Cheers, Stewart _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ vwnc mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc |
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