Re: Animation framework

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

11 mar 2008 kl. 00.50 skrev <guillaume fluendo com> <guillaume fluendo com 
>:

Hi Guillaume,

Not a GTK+ developer per se but just wanted to say that this is great  
news. I guess people are busy at the hackfest but will reply later :)

Sounds like a great idea to start a wiki page on live.gnome.org to get  
started and write down your ideas and get others involved.

Cheers,
  Micke

> Dear GTK+ devs,
>
> It seems GTK+ might be in need of animation facilities some day[1],  
> and we have
> the same kind of issue[2] in pigment[3]. I was thinking that in this  
> case, it
> might be possible to hit two birds with one stone, since both  
> projects are
> C/GObject. I have started to design an animation library and do some  
> "API
> tests" to see what code using this design would look like. I am  
> still early in
> the process and haven't written a "real" line of code yet, but I  
> think it's
> time to speak about it. Are there other people here interested in  
> this issue? I
> guess so seeing the number of replies to the GtkTimeline bug.
>
> Should we start a wiki page on live.gnome where we could centralise  
> ideas
> regarding that?  Personally, I will start programming the API as  
> soon as I have
> a satisfying API, but I will be happier if it satisfies more than  
> me. Also, my
> employer (Fluendo Embedded) seems to agree that I work on this full  
> time (or
> almost), so I will be able to make this advance relatively quickly.
>
> I have also seen that "Animation API" is on the menu[4] of the  
> hackfest
> currently taking place. Have there already been discussions on this  
> subject?
> What do hackfest attendants think should be done for an animation API?
>
> Also, I have written a blog article explaining some of my thoughts  
> on the
> subject:
> https://guij.emont.org/blog/2008/03/10/paf-animation-framework/
>
> Cheers,
>
> Guillaume
>
>
> [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444659
> [2] https://code.fluendo.com/pigment/trac/ticket/125
> [3] https://code.fluendo.com/pigment/trac/
> [4] http://live.gnome.org/GTK%2B/Hackfest2008/Ideas
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