Re: UIKit bridging for AppKit: Chameleon

[Ivan Vučica]

UIKit highly depends on Core Animation, and, from what I gathered, so does Chameleon. As far as I can see, GNUstep doesn't mention Core Animation anywhere to be supported.

Without Core Animation, I don't think there's much point in looking at Chameleon. What one can do, however, is implement basic UIKit-like APIs without relying on Core Animation. More advanced apps that use tons of animations and dig deeply behind the scenes of the topmost APIs would probably break horribly, but just as with anything else, simplest apps could be made to work without problems.

Or, GNUstep could receive a Core Animation treatment to make things more compatible. I haven't used CA except in the form exposed by UIKit, so I'd have to step back and let someone else comment on feasibility of this.

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 19:13, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com> wrote:

Hi all,
I just came across a new project Chameleon (BSD-style license)

       http://chameleonproject.org/

which apparently places a bridging layer on top of AppKit to provide
the UIKit API.

I have not looked into any details yet but if it works on a Mac it
*might* work on GNUstep without too much additions (most likely
we need a lot of Core Graphics stuff because UIKit Apps use them heavily).

What are your thoughts?

Nikolaus

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Ivan Vučica