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Re: UIKit? |
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Sat, 2 Jan 2010 12:37:51 -0800 (PST) |
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On 2 Jan., 19:03, David Chisnall <thera...@sucs.org> wrote:
> On 2 Jan 2010, at 16:53, h...@computer.org wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, it isn't. The main reason is that iPhone Apps don't use
> > GUI (AppKit) but UIKit (which is similar but more a cousin than a
> > twin) and heavily rely on CoreGraphics, CoreAnimation and OpenGL-ES.
> > Neither API is available through GNUstep or mySTEP.
>
> Not true. We have Opal, currently in Étoilé svn, which is an
Is Etoile the same as GNUstep or something different? Although I
follow this topic for years I did never completely understand the
relationship.
> implementation of CoreGraphics. Gregory was getting the original
> author to sign copyright assignment so that we could move it upstream
> to GNUstep, but I'm not sure what the status of this is.
>
> Eric has been working on this over Christmas and has now implemented
> things like CGLayer, which is used to implement the low-level bits of
> CoreAnimation. He's also been working on making -gui issue GC* calls
> instead of DPS* calls, so that we can use Opal for drawing and just
> leave -back handling window creation and event generation (something
> we discussed with Fred at the Étoilé hackathon last spring).
Ah, interesting things. If they can become part of GNUstep svn this
will be great.
Additionally, we should find a way to make such work better known and
coordinated (FOSDEM?) or people like me will spread false assumptions
that something (like Opal) is *not available* in GNUstep.
Nikolaus
- Re: Opal/CoreGraphics (was Re: UIKit?), (continued)
- Re: Opal/CoreGraphics (was Re: UIKit?), David Chisnall, 2010/01/02
- Re: Opal/CoreGraphics (was Re: UIKit?), Riccardo Mottola, 2010/01/04
- Re: Opal/CoreGraphics (was Re: UIKit?), David Chisnall, 2010/01/04
- Re: Opal/CoreGraphics (was Re: UIKit?), Fred Kiefer, 2010/01/04
- Re: Opal/CoreGraphics (was Re: UIKit?), Eric Wasylishen, 2010/01/08
- Re: Opal/CoreGraphics (was Re: UIKit?), Eric Wasylishen, 2010/01/08
- Re: Opal/CoreGraphics (was Re: UIKit?), Gregory Casamento, 2010/01/03
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- Re: Opal/CoreGraphics (was Re: UIKit?), Jeff Teunissen, 2010/01/05
- Re: Opal/CoreGraphics (was Re: UIKit?), Riccardo Mottola, 2010/01/05
Re: UIKit?, Gregory Casamento, 2010/01/02
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Re: UIKit?, Riccardo Mottola, 2010/01/02