Hi Aliaksei

It looks gorgeous.
I tried to launch the Bloc image from the CI and it crashes during startup on my mac. I reported that to Glenn and Alain but so far I simply cannot see Bloc code. Is it working for you? I mean is it me that is using the wrong VM.

Then I have a question:

������ - do you think that we can have a fallback in terms of back end for the case where we could like to run Pharo on coffee machines but get a live environment on such machines? This is related to the discussions we got this summer about the memory footprint that Moz2D will put on us.

I do not mean that we must have one but I think that this is important to check because we can say that Pharo is small but if we need 20 mb libraries for rendering there are some cases where this can kill its usage.

Stef

Hi

I am happy to announce the release of��Sparta��v1.1 for Pharo 6.

https://github.com/syrel/Sparta/tree/v1.1

It can be bootstrapped with the following script:

Metacello new
  baseline: 'Sparta';
  repository: 'github://syrel/sparta:v1.1/src';
  load: #file:core

Examples are on class side of:��MozExamples,��MozTextExamples

(for linux users: if you use 32bit pharo on 64bit linux, sparta will not work, since 32bit plugin depends on 32bit GTK which conflicts with 64bit GTK. Either use 32bit linux or 64bit pharo. I tested sparta with 64bit vm on mac and linux - it works, but some features fail because FFI is not ready)

Release of v1.1 is focused on hardware acceleration, windows support and text rendering.

What is new:

��- Default backends on all platforms changed from software to hardware accelerated.

��- Now also works on Windows! Default backend is Direct2D for drawings and DirectWrite for text. On multi-gpu machines per-app-default setting is respected. In case of Nvidia it can be changed in nvidia control panel. Sparta is x2 faster on discrete gpu than on integrated one.

��- Added initial text support, for instance rendering and high precision measurement.

��- Per-platform settings system is now image based. Allows to enable/disable hardware acceleration, change default backends, change font-mappings tables.

Some text examples:

(rendering)

(measurement)

Cheers,

Alex