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