[Cuis-dev] Proposals for Community meeting!

[Juan Vuletich]

On 1/31/2022 6:23 PM, Nicola Mingotti via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I will be happy to participate, i hope timing do not clash too often 
> with our company meetings,
> in which case i would not be able to attend. Excuse me right for the 
> times this may happen.
>
> So, I few things i can talk you about is:
>
> . I am developing a touch screen GUI in Cuis for a product we will 
> ship in March.
>   Cuis runs in a BeagleBone black. If i don't find bad surprises I 
> will ship it in Cuis.
>   I can show you that in the near term.
>   I don't have a real reason to make this in Cuis if not that it is an 
> easy project and forces me
>   to learn Morphic once and for all. But i can tell you, the way Cuis 
> jump from
>   the high dpi retinas display to a 800x500 (50euro) touch screen is 
> really amazing.
>   I have seen thousand dollars Linux software fall miserably on this.

Nice to know! It would be very nice to see you demo this work.

>   The only problem i have here, up to now, is that if I load 
> VectorGraphics it all becomes super slow, so
>   i am most probably forced to do without it. The deadline is near.

If you do `MorphicCanvas activeSubclass: HybridCanvas.` the unzoomed 
windows will become faster, because they'll use BitBlt. If instead you 
do `MorphicCanvas activeSubclass: BitBltCanvas.` then vector graphics 
and zooming are disabled, and you go back to BitBlt for everything, but 
you have TrueType.

Also, make sure that `VectorEngineWithPlugin isPluginAvailable` answers 
true.

Still, it may be too slow on a BeagleBone. I wrote it thinking on 
relatively modern PCs.

> . I am porting the RFB package from Squeak. This seems not so easy. I 
> got it working
>   in Squeak today. Then I opened a repository in github for the Cuis 
> version. I made
>   some initial hacks but I don't know how far I am to have something 
> working.
>   I use VNC a lot, so for me this is just useful per se. As a side 
> objective, it is
>   cool to have a video running in a Cuis Morph ;)
>
> . Months ago I started building an unusual ecommerce website for which 
> i was
>   able to submit a patent request a few days ago. The web server is Cuis.
>   Again, if i don't find unfixable problems it will remain in Cuis.
>   I can't show you it right now, but in a few months may be !
>
> . Wish-1. If anybody wants to show how to make a trivial plugin I 
> would be
>   very grateful. Just to have an idea. I would really like to know how
>   OSProcess works for example, that tools for me is fundamental. Also, 
> if some
>   day in the future we need to port VectorGraphics plugin to the Web 
> technology
>   we should have some common warm up knowledge to start from. A little 
> introductory
>   video would be super!
>
>
>
> Bye
> Nicola

Thanks,

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