Hi Fernando, I don't want a Form... quitte the opposite! :) What I want is to have something equivalent to athens to what now is covered in morphic with ImageReadWriter. Or, better explained, I want an AthensImageReadWriter who answers me a surface (or something that I can draw with an athens canvas) with the image from a file :) Esteban On Jan 23, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Fernando Olivero <fernando.olivero@usi.ch> wrote:
What you can with Athens and the Cairo backend is:
1) create a surface in memory 2) draw to the surface 3) export that surface to a png 4) import that png into a form
The main point is step 3, cairo can export any surface to a png. Then within Pharo, any form can be created from a png.
Also, if you interested in drawing from Athens into a form directly, look at the AthensDemoExamples, and Igor's magic trick of matching the bits of the surface (step 1), directly to the bits of an "external" form. to avoid steps 3 and 4. He used the surface plugin for that.
Hope i answered all your questions, though not sure because i've never used ImageReadWriter.
Fernando
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:38 AM, Denis Kudriashov <dionisiydk@gmail.com> wrote: I have same question :))
2013/1/23 Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com<mailto:estebanlm@gmail.com>> Hi,
So, ImageReadWriter currently reads image files and retrieve Form objects, who can be displayed in world... anybody knows (cough, cough, Igor) what would be the Athens replacement for that?
thanks, Esteban