Re: Quartz call to generate shadows?
Re: Quartz call to generate shadows?
- Subject: Re: Quartz call to generate shadows?
- From: Brant Vasilieff <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 17:57:44 -0700
Scott,
Since Quartz was first demonstrated, shadows were one of the implied
featured benefits. The sample application that allowed you to
manipulate PDF's using Quartz, allowed you to scale, rotate, change the
transparency and add a shadow. When the API's finally arrived, shadows
were the only thing missing.
Beyond just keeping the look and feel consistent, It's also important to
keep the performance and stability constant. How many of us looking to
add shadows to our views, have the time, or needed resources to make
sure it takes advantage of AltiVec or GPU if available? What we need is
a standard way to add shadows to objects. Either draw to a transparent
view and then composite with shadow to another view, or the ability to
attach a shadow to a view, so that when it was drawn, the shadow was
drawn automatically for us.
Are there any other recommended ways to add a shadow to a view? Public
examples? Source code? Books?
Cheers,
Brant
On Monday, October 8, 2001, at 05:20 , email@hidden
wrote:
Beats me. I'd start by sending a message to John Geleynse. I'm sure a
case could be made that it's important to maintain a certain look and
feel. In the mean time, I would avoid this particular call.
Scott.
On Monday, October 8, 2001, at 01:04 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
On Monday, October 8, 2001, at 09:02 pm, Scott Herz wrote:
I'm not on the CG team, but be prepared for this not to work in an
upcoming version of 10.
Ho hum, I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't. Are there going to be any
public calls for doing this in a future release?