2005/10/4, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 14:46:47 +0200 Frederick MOUSNIER-LOMPRE > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> > So my first question is that is there any funtions/modules in the EFL > > that can handle text conversions like the Iconv library [5] does ? Or > > is there functions like the "g_unichar_*" functions from the glib [6] > > in the EFL ? > > ecore_txt :) there is only 1 function call in that library - part of the ecore > suite. it's just a wrapper around iconv. all text in efl is assumed utf8 at > the > api points (especially evas/edje etc.) Like Vincent Torri said, the text format isn't my top priority so i'll see for a solution later - I encounter this problem because I have started by removing all the glib dependancies. > > > Also, like I said before I want at the end to do a browser so > > I was asking myself for a way to develop a Toolkit part (a little bit > > like the Apple WebKit or the Gtk-Webcore NRCIT) with EFL so if you > > have any ideas / advice or mistake that I should not do, they are all > > wellcome :) > > just a note: when you come to graphics display parts youw ill meet bigger > problems. we have NO GDK-like layer. the rendering level is higher up like > half-way in the middle of gtk. evas deals in persistant objects that have > STATE > - they are not drawn. they are created, they exist until u destroy them (like > widgets). you can show/hide/manipulate etc. you will begin to have problems > once you get into doing complex text stuff - like text in web pages. evas's > text support is not the strongest - it actually has a very high level object > that does a lot of text formatting you'd see in a web page or text widget, but > not all. if you want to let webcore do the text layout you will end up with > TONNES of text objects - and having that many can possibly get very expensive > speed-wise. for now - instead of rendering text, just create dummy rectangle > objects or ignore it and try everything else. > Thanks for the note, I think that i will follow your advice about the "dummy rectangles". I'm just at the beginning of the work so I will keep you informed if I encounter more problems or difficulties. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
