[Drawkit] DrawKit/Ortelius on the iPhone

[Dick Applebaum]

On Jul 6, 2008, at 8:06 PM, Brad Larson wrote:

> On Jul 5, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Uli Kusterer wrote:
>
>>
>> On 05.07.2008, at 22:07, Dick Applebaum wrote:
>>> DrawKit, in general, and Ortelius, in particular would seem to be  
>>> natural apps for the iPhone (and future mobile devices Apple  
>>> offers).
>>>
>>> I am not suggesting that a full drawing or mapping app needs to be  
>>> ported to the iPhone.
>>>
>>> Rather, the ability to display/manipulat drawings that are created  
>>> elsewhere.
>>
>>
>> Apart from the fact that at least my fingers are much too big to do  
>> anything resembling image manipulation, there are technical reasons  
>> that make me think DrawKit will probably not port to the iPhone  
>> that easily.
>>
>> Of course, considering anyone who knows for sure about details of  
>> the iPhone is under a Non-Disclosure-Agreement, you'll probably  
>> have to wait for a detailed analysis on how well DrawKit would or  
>> would not port until the iPhone SDK goes final.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -- Uli Kusterer
>> "The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..."
>> http://www.zathras.de
>>
>>
>
> I can't be more specific, due to NDA, but I just submitted an iPhone  
> application (an open source 3D molecular modeler) for consideration  
> for the App Store and I can tell you that it would be a technical  
> challenge to bring across the framework as it's currently designed  
> to the iPhone.
>
> That said, it is possible.  A good first step might be to leverage  
> Core Animation within the framework and do more in terms of CALayers  
> instead of NSViews, something I might take a look at soon.
>
> Now that I think about it, Ortelius would be a nice fit with the  
> iPhone 3G's GPS capabilities.  You could have it record a hiking  
> path as you walk or roads as you drive and store them as vectors for  
> manipulation on a Mac client program.  Maps could be drawn up on the  
> Mac and synced with the iPhone client or downloaded directly by the  
> client.
>
> Even James's musical notation application might port across well to  
> the limited interaction / view area of the iPhone / iPod Touch.
>


Bingo!  That's exactly what I am talking about/requesting:

1) Display the drawings on the iphone (instead of images of the  
drawings)
2) Limited manipulation of the drawing: scale, rotate, hide layers
3) Ability to use Core Location to display and track position
4) limited ability (a single drawing layer with minimal object styles  
for adding points or arrows as necessary

Thanks for the response, Brad.

Dick


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