Open Sourcing: decora-compiler

[Joseph Andresen]

They started playing around with it couple weeks ago... But it was a low priority.

On Nov 8, 2012, at 2:33 AM, Jiri Prajzner <Goddard at seznam.cz> wrote:

> Any chance NetBeans folks will catch up on this? :)
> 
> Regards, Jiri
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> ---------- Původní zpráva ----------
> Od: Tom Schindl <tom.schindl at bestsolution.at>
> Datum: 8. 11. 2012
> Předmět: Re: Open Sourcing: decora-compiler
> "[Resending because the first one is queued because I attached a screenshot]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You got me I fact I don't only plan I've written one already
> yesterday - see
> http://tomsondev.bestsolution.at/2012/11/08/javafx-shader-language-jsl-or-
> writing-an-editor-for-a-language-you-dont-know/
> (http://tomsondev.bestsolution.at/2012/11/08/javafx-shader-language-jsl-or-writing-an-editor-for-a-language-you-dont-know/)
> !
> 
> It's a very dumb one yet but it could be improved, although I have to
> say this is very low priority in the complete e(fx)clipse project.
> 
> Tom
> 
> Am 08.11.12 07:21, schrieb Felipe Heidrich:
>> Hi Tom,
>> 
>> 
>> Out of curiosity,
>> 
>> Are you planning on adding JSL editor to e(fx)clipse ?
>> 
>> I think that would be really cool. Provided that we already have the DSL
> grammar file for ANTR it should not be too much trouble to pass it to xText 
> (i hope).
>> 
>> Joe/Rich: would we be able to get Tom a couple of JSL example files to get
> him going ?
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Felipe
>> 
>> 
>> On Nov 7, 2012, at 9:11 AM, Tom Schindl wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Ok - I cloned the graphic forest - to get my hands dirty on this are
>>> there any example DSL-Files, to do some monkey see monkey do?
>>> 
>>> Tom
>>> 
>>> Am 06.11.12 19:08, schrieb Richard Bair:
>>>> It will be in "rt". It will start out in the graphics forest but by next
> week it will have propagated through the rest of them.
>>>> 
>>>> On Nov 6, 2012, at 10:05 AM, Tom Schindl <tom.schindl at bestsolution.at>
> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> That sounds interesting where will it endup? In which mercurial repo?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tom
>>>>> 
>>>>> Am 06.11.12 17:13, schrieb Richard Bair:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm going to be open sourcing today another one of our projects called
> decora-compiler. We have our own DSL for shader languages called Decora. 
> What we do is generate shaders for OpenGL and D3D from this language. We 
> also generate Java code and SSE native code. For some shaders, we ended up 
> generating them and then hand-tweaking them from there.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The decora-compiler is used during the build process, but is not
> itself part of either the JDK or JRE, and so has mostly remained invisible 
> to everybody. There is an "ME" based backend for JavaME which I don't think 
> is even being used anymore, so there is stuff here we could remove to reduce
> the size of the project (and I will be filing a JIRA for this).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> decora-compiler isn't really that interesting in isolation, although 
> at one time we had entertained the idea of popularizing it so that people 
> could write their own shaders with JSL (the decora shader language), in 
> which case the compiler would be part of the JDK such that you could create 
> your own effects. Decora is predominantly used for the "effects" -- blur, 
> box blur, etc. Although it is also used for prism shaders, we don't generate
> SSE or Java backends for those, and many of these have been tweaked by hand 
> vs. simply generated.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>> Richard
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