Here's a little movie I threw together for a quick demo the other day.

What it isn't...

• Something that will show up any time soon integrated in VisualWorks, especially looking like this
• Completely smooth, I worked on one window, when the other windows pop up, there's a jarring disreality that takes place

What it did end up being...

• A fun demo in Cairographics, that demonstrated how handy complete alpha graphics (not just image support) can be
• A fun demo in Cairographics, that demonstrated how handy non rectangular clip regions can be
• A fun demo in Pango, I did an original version without Cairo/Pango, and the font solution using Pango was so vastly simpler/easier to do.
• A good demonstration of drawing graphics outside of VW, and then using Assets to quickly integrate those
• A prototyping experience to do it all without Wrappers (we're using VW VisualPart subclasses there, but no Wrappers of any kind in between)
• A prototyping experience to develop a generic "click me graphic" with idle/mouseover/mousedown states
• A prototyping experience to do it all without Controllers. Again, VisualPart subclasses, in the view tree, but no Controllers to go back and forth between

The Silent Movie