On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 16:43 +0930, James Moschou wrote:
> Is there a maximum limit to the number of actors you can place on the > stage? apart from the capabilities of your platform, there is no artificial limit. > I'm interested in implementing a text editor actor in clutter. Having > one massive Clutter.Text actor isn't going to cut it. So I was > wondering if there were a separate actor for each line of text, would > that be too many actors. that would mostly be a waste of resources: you'd have to lay out, paint and reference thousands - or maybe more - actors. plus all the other actors that compose the "chrome" of your UI. one solution - which is similar to what GtkTextView does - is to use a PangoLayout for each paragraph of text; this means that you'll have to implement a new text actor. ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, Open Source Software Engineer Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ clutter-app-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://lists.clutter-project.org/listinfo/clutter-app-devel-list
