Hello Athens is a vector graphics library, its not a GUI API. Athens will not give you buttons, menus, drop down lists and GUI elements. It will give you however the means to draw all those things and much more. I am actually making an Athens driven application myself , called "Hyperion" , a vector graphics editor and I hope also a designer that will allow you to make GUIs with Athens. But this project will take me a very long time. The best source right now for learning Athens is the Athens tutorial, you can find it in the smalltalkhub repo in the Athens-Tutorial package. It has 32 very useful examples which will give you a very good idea of what Athens can do. I will try also to contribute to Athens documentation in the near future , but for now I am very new to all this and these things take time. Also Igor which is the creator of Athens , always welcomes questions in this list and always replies ;) So don't be shy, ask away :) On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 6:39 PM, J.F. Rick <self@je77.com> wrote:
Hi,
I want to start using Athens for rendering. How do I get started?
I've gone ahead and upgraded to the latest Pharo 3.0 and taken a look at the example classes. While that gives me some ideas about what the Athens canvas is capable of (impressive), I have an existing Morphic application that I want to redo with Athens rendering. I'm not sure how to begin doing that. I couldn't find a tutorial to get me started on doing conversion. Is there such a thing? It would be nice to have a morphic example (i.e., multiple morphs composed together all using Athens for rendering) shipped with the image.
Cheers,
Jeff
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