[Skencil-users] Fwd: Fwd: Join forces for skencil1/sK1?

[Igor Novikov]

Hi all,

>The limitations of Skencil 0.6 line was noticed a few years ago by Bernhard
H.
>and he started the 0.7 line with the first rewrite step to seperate
>the graphical interface. Did you check on the improvements of 0.7?

Yes, branch 0.7 has a better code style, but sometimes xlib is just
substituted by
gdk ;)

>Yes I think distutils was not readily available when Skencil's build system
>was constructed.

It would be great to improve 0.6 branch build - this software is still
popular.

>The attempt to remedy the font problem was Skencil 0.7.
>If you write it is not useful, how useful is it compared to Skencil 0.6(which
>is quite useful, though it of course has a lot of limitations).

Well, I compiled 0.7 branch but text instrument results exception and dailog
about Times-Roman font absence.

On my opinion vector editor should have complex font manager which uses
FreeType or similar libs.

>> Highly important task is multiplatforming, but we already have
>> multiplatform engine mock-up which works on *nix, MacOS X and Win32.
>> Unfortunately, this task requires almost complete reimplementation of
>> Skencil derived code. We hope that the result will be presented on LGM
>> 2008.

>Are you developing this in the open?

Oh, no! It's just a sketch. Not a good code example. :)
General idea is using Cairo to paint inside Tk Canvas, i.e. only Tk and
Cairo
datatypes without platform specific libs and ctypes usage. Ideally it would
be
great avoiding native extensions at all.

Regards,

Igor Novikov
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