Re: Chameleon - UIKit for Mac development

[Fred Kiefer]

Well actually at the moment somebody is working on implementing Core 
Animation for GNUstep and that somebody is you :-)

I think the Chameleon way of implementing UIKit is the most efficient 
one, developer wise. And if you get enough of CA in place it may even 
work on top of GNUstep. We should not waste any time on another way to 
do it, at least this is what we decided when we heard about Chameleon.
For any non trivial UIKit application we will need most of the 
supporting libraries anyway, so lets start working on those and then try 
to use Chameleon on top of them.

Fred


On 12.06.2012 09:01, Ivan Vučica wrote:
> I just yesterday read some of my own old posts on the subject, and, 
> surprisingly, I still agree with myself :-)
>
> Chameleon is great for bringing iOS APIs to the desktop, but from what I read about it, 
> it is no replacement for a "real" implementation.
>
> Another issue is that GNUstep doesn't have Core Animation yet. It's being 
> actively worked on, but even when it's (mostly) done it probably won't be 
> immediately integrated with AppKit; that is, NSViews probably won't immediately 
> get capability of being layer-backed.
>
> So that blocks Chameleon; on the other hand, NSLayers not being CA-backed 
> doesn't block a full implementation of UIKit. :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Ivan Vučica
> via phone
>
> On 12. 6. 2012., at 00:48, Lars 
> Sonchocky-Helldorf<lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de>  wrote:
>
> > Is anyone aware of this project? Can it help GNUstep to get UIKit 
> > Functionality? Or I am misunderstanding something?
> >
> > http://chameleonproject.org/