[Drawkit] DrawKit/Ortelius on the iPhone

[Dick Applebaum]

Hey Brad,

To up the ante-- there is a year's supply of curd (squeaky) cheese  
waiting for the first person who make a DrawKit client that works on  
the iPhone :)

Dick


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.
>
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