Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:55:45 +0100 Essien Ita Essien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > babbled: > > no attachment :) > > but - note the livethumb uses a BUFFER canvas - it sets the resolution of the > BUFFER canvas to be higher than the output. make this resolution high enough > (eg 800x600) and evas will scale that 800x600 "buffer" canvas down to the size > of the output of the preview. that is how the livethumb works. > ahhhh.... that was what CodeWarrior was talking about when he said I could use a buffer... neat. ok.. i'm going back to grok e_livethumb with an eye to steal this new information. :)
thnx. > >> Hiya Everybody, >> >> I've been on a slow road to building a real preview object for >> entrance_edit_gui. The idea is to always show the full entrance in a >> small preview window, complete with all the edje effects that the theme >> or background may have to offer. Eventually too, complete with the >> greetings, etc. Right now though, all i just want is to display >> (obviously :) ). >> >> Raster and Codewarrior asked me to look thru e_livethumb subsystem. And >> I discovered i knew nothing of Esmarts and coding that the evas layer, >> so I went to fix that and I'm better in that regard now. Here I'm >> attaching minientrance.tar.gz (NOTE: THE ENTRANCE THEME FILE I USED IS >> HARDCODED, PLEASE MODIFY B4 YOU COMPILE) which is a complete esmart >> object for entrance that i'm playing with to understand the problem >> (apparently, there's an incomplete and not used entrance_smart object in >> entrance right now, but its well... not quite in use, so its rusty). >> >> >> The main problem I have with this smart object and infact, in general is >> that when I load the edje, the main login box, refuses to resize below >> its min geometry. I do not know if its possible to *force* an edje part >> to resize below its min width or so. If you compile minientrance, and >> resize the window, you'll notice the box just refuses to resize with the >> rest of the ui. >> >> What I was aiming at doing is to instantiate the entrance_smart obj, and >> give it a size say 100x50, and have it render itself properly as a >> preview. When I then change the theme or background in the gui config >> tool, I'll just make the esmart object refresh itself. Basically, i >> guess once the smart object works well, its all ok. the next issue will >> be loading it in an etk/ewl canvas or something. But that's another story :) >> >> Am I on the right track? Someone, smack me on the head with a >> solution/idea :) >> >> cheers, >> Essien >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? >> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier >> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo >> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 >> _______________________________________________ >> enlightenment-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
