deborahturkey
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I'm a developer familiar with Ada, C, Obj.C (iOS), and C#. I would like to create an application to show some data about a robot I'm building. However I have never done graphics with either Mac libraries or OpenGL before. What I'm trying to achieve is shown in the image below. I have tested Processing to create some stuff. But it's too complicated and Processing is far from powerful for this kind of application. It can't even rotate a line around its center without writing some nasty code.Requirements:
Graphing capabilities (e.g. voltage drawn in respect to time), Google maps API, gradients, 2D animations, masks.Questions: [*]What should I learn? Is this possible to implement using only the Mac libraries/frameworks or should I use OpenGL?[*]Is it best to do it using Obj c? Or is java worth the learning? How good is Java with graphics like this? This thing is that if I program this using Obj C then its not cross platform.[*]Any other tips you can give?Later on, I
Graphing capabilities (e.g. voltage drawn in respect to time), Google maps API, gradients, 2D animations, masks.Questions: [*]What should I learn? Is this possible to implement using only the Mac libraries/frameworks or should I use OpenGL?[*]Is it best to do it using Obj c? Or is java worth the learning? How good is Java with graphics like this? This thing is that if I program this using Obj C then its not cross platform.[*]Any other tips you can give?Later on, I