Very cool. What is the responsiveness when you increase the number of on-screen objects? I found that a fully connected graph with 20 nodes become almost totally unusable using the Connectors package.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwwjOO84Sn8

L


On 3/29/12 1:08 PM, Alexandre Bergel wrote:

Here's an extract of an email i've sent to the list when i
successfully used Cairo on Mac.

How is Roassal being rendered now? Using FormCanvas? If you have some
screenshots would be nice.

I am the first one to say that screenshots are always welcomed.

Here is a few of them.

Roassal supports a low level language, so this is plain smalltalk (no dsl):

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It offers some interesting interaction, such as dragging with velocity. It is like using the finger on the iphone:

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A layer translates the Mondrian DSL into the low level language.

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There is no scrollbar anymore. Just drag and drop the background.

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I will release Roassal at the end of April probably. On the Roadmap:

- Roassal will support a nice zooming in and out. when you zoom in, other nodes appears. And when you zoom out, those nodes disappear.

- be compatible with Cairo

- some node highlighting. 

- produce HTML5

- be platform independent. It will work in other smalltalk as well.

Cheers,

Alexandre

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