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Re: Chameleon - UIKit for Mac development


From: Fred Kiefer
Subject: Re: Chameleon - UIKit for Mac development
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:23:14 +0200
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On 13.06.2012 20:54, Nicholas Levin wrote:
On Jun 13, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Ivan Vučica<ivucica@gmail.com>  wrote:

On 12. 6. 2012., at 05:16, Nicholas Levin wrote:

I am not a GNUstep expert, nor am I a lawyer… : )

Chameleon has a strong dependency on Core Animation and Core Text. GNUstep 
doesn't support either, yet. Ivan's promising work should provide a good, uh, 
foundation for the CA bits and pieces.

 From what I can see, we DO have a Core Text implementation as part of Opal :-)
  http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/opal/trunk/Headers/CoreText/
  http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/libs/opal/trunk/Source/OpalText/

How much of it is implemented, I have no idea, as I never before had to use 
CoreText. :-)


I did take a look at OpalText about a month ago. Several significant bits are 
still stubbed out, and the rest references NSFont. Still has some ways to go.

If nobody picks it up in about two months, I could see if I could try to do 
something with it using FreeType 2.

I have enough Core Text war stories under my belt that I think I could do it 
some justice. : ) Some parts of that API make me long for the days of ATSUI.

That sounds great! Even if it takes two more months for you to start :-)
I am sure Eric is willing to help you and I hope to have the time by then to help cleaning up the gui and back bits that are shared with OpalText.



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