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Re: graphics and scheme

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Subject: Re: graphics and scheme
From: lord@emf.emf.net (Tom Lord)
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 01:36:41 -0000
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        > I spend several days in looking for projects on graphics for any
        > Scheme or LISP. But it seems to me that all former activities in this
        > direction died out. Where are they gone


Mine was killed by Cygnus Support cum Cygnus Solutions (now Red Hat)
for no good reason at all.

Briefly, it worked by creating a 2D display list and doing updates
from that automatically.

Initially, you had to create the display list fairly explicitly, but
the medium-term plan was to allow you to create it from FPS-style
drawings.

It worked well enough to do multi-font text display fast enough for
scrolling on hw that is, by today's standards, snail-like.

Man, how I'd like to be able to get back to that.

Then you have to think about how to relate drawings to input - that's
fun.

Widgets are stoopid.   ("Don't fidget with widgets -- draw!" is the
right general idea.)

-t



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