smalltalk - What exactly is Athens? -
while have played athens (see pharoboids) , liked it, still miss exact point is.
i came these 2 diagrams (see below) myself. correct? , there corresponding canvas
classes. role?
athens vector graphics framework. has own api, going replace balloon/bitblt used today in morphic. replacement gradual , @ end want have morphic widgets use athens api. athens abstracts implementation backend through api. currently, there supported backend cairo graphics library. there's port of athens amber (a browser-based smalltalk implementation). in future want have more backends supported, opengl (via nvpath extension or without it), quartz on mac os, , gdi+ on windows. also, important note, athens standalone , low-level graphics api. there's no direct connection morphic except morphic using rendering (like else can imagine, instance: rendering pdf or svg content etc).
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