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SPARK – And I Don’t Mean Sparkle

Some of the SVG evangelists have put together a SVG Programmers’ Application Resource Kit (aka SPARK) website.  It has some pretty cool SVG programming examples, and is meant to promote “programming” with SVG.  If you hit the SVG version of the site (requires Adobe’s SVG Viewer), you can see some of the cool things you can do with an XML based UI with a vector graphics API under the covers.  Sort of looks a lot like the XAML-GUI stuff.  The major drawback is that it is all in script.  If the event code was all done in managed code, and could take advantage of the graphics card, it would be really slick, but hey that’s Longhorn territory.  But I’m sure we could get a best of both worlds if we used SharpVectors and enhanced it to support DirectX and GDI+ (with automatic switching), and included .Net scripting support.

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Published Sunday, November 30, 2003 7:06 PM by donxml

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Chris Peto said:

Hey,

I would like to see some of this Longhorn stuff. I just read that you are beta testing XAML, how can I get involved?

Thanks for the good words on SPARK.
Chris Peto
December 9, 2003 1:28 PM

Alastair Fettes said:

Just for your information some updates have been added to the SPARK website at http://www.schemasoft.org.

We're working towards defining the framework for SVG widgets. You might be interested to note that it will be possible to declaritively create an entire user interface (following a sample application that was created).

Any and all comments are welcome and we have a developers mailing list. Thanks!
April 22, 2004 12:50 AM

Chris Peto said:

And they have been pretty damn good!
September 27, 2004 6:27 PM
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