Super!!! Is latest Bloc uses Sparta? 2016-10-19 18:06 GMT+02:00 Aliaksei Syrel <alex.syrel@gmail.com>:
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) [image: Inline images 2]
(measurement) [image: Inline images 1]
Cheers, Alex
