Re: Understanding /dev/draw

hmm? what would you like, please tell us more

On 4/19/19, Joseph Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:
> Skip/all: there's a lot I think about especially surrounding plan9 and
> Inferno. Sadly little action results.
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 2:52 PM Skip Tavakkolian
> <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Joseph, others, have you thought about Dis-to-wasm JIT?  I recall
>> Charles/Vita Nuova doing a browser plugin a few years ago, but things
>> could
>> be a lot simpler now. HTML5 also has storage api's; a lot of local
>> resources can be available via 9p/sytx (devdraw, fs, cons)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:55 PM Joseph Stewart
>> <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm greedily watching this space... if you need testers, please let me
>>> know. I have an interest in how/if this could be applied to Inferno was
>>> well.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:05 PM Chris McGee <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I managed to get it running after all of these years. In case anyone
>>>> tries it again here's a few things that I had to do to get it to work
>>>> on
>>>> the latest 9front.
>>>>
>>>> * Copy the latin1.h header file from the bell labs distribution and
>>>> copy
>>>> it into /sys/src/9/port
>>>> * Run ip/httpd/httpd -w /sys/web/9wd (this is where the installation
>>>> copies the web app)
>>>> * Patch /usr/web/9wd/js/draw/data.js by commenting out the "delete
>>>> conn.imgs[id];" line
>>>>     * Future draw commands come in referring to the old image for some
>>>> reason and the server doesn't handle it well
>>>>
>>>> Yes, when I coerce the websocket tool to launch rio instead of acme
>>>> there's some oddness when I launch new graphical apps within rio from
>>>> the
>>>> windows, such as acme. They tend to think that they should occupy the
>>>> entire screen. Also, be patient because it is quite slow for now.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know if David is still active in this space?
>>>>
>>>> Erik, where can I learn more about the layers?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 2:08 PM erik quanstrom <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> this implementation is enough to run acme,but not a full p9 terminal.
>>>>> you'll need layers for that.
>>>>>
>>>>
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