| From: | Patrick Roberts |
| Date: | 2 Aug 2000 at 23:27:02 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Vector graphcs for Amiverse gadgets/classes |
That is a cool feature. It is possible with a OpenGL WM to do all sorts of
cool stuff like a desktop with true 3D icons, as well as 2D ones like OSX, plus
they can rotate around, react to light, etc... and with OpenGL coming to
Amiga.... :)
Matthew J Fletcher wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have been playing with a MacOS X beta today and i noticed a very
> cool feature that i hope you have in the amiverse design, but if not
> i think an analysis would be a good idea.
>
> The feature i refer to is of course Aqua`s use of vector graphics for
> scaleable graphic items on the desktop, no longer do icons and gadgets
> become so small that they are barely visible, for example in 1600x1200
> the standard up/down scroll buttons under KDE and Windows are about 2mm
> across (i.e very small).
>
> Having bitmaps for all resolutions and colour depths is slightly
> inelegant, having scaleable images would be better in almost all states
> because the gui engine could render an appropreate set of gadgets either
> to bitmaps (for slow systems) upon a resolution change or upon refresh
> for faster (i.e pc based) systems.
>
> regards,
>
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