Re: UIKit bridging for AppKit: Chameleon

[Gregory Casamento]

Definitely looks interesting. :)

GC

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Ivan Vučica <ivucica@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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