On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Brian Duffy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Its funny how things sometimes come to me right before I fall asleep at > night or in the morning before I am completely awake. Things that seem > obvious in retrospect. > > It finally dawned on me that I can just load the object from the > ClutterScript and create and add text actors to it as I am traversing my > result set in code. So I guess pursuing this clutter script thing for my > gui is doable. Although, I am still curious if anyone wants to express > reservations about using ClutterScript. > > thnx > > > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Brian Duffy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello again, >> >> I'm investigating ClutterScript because the Clutter Cookbook suggests >> that there are numerous benefits to its use. Thus far, all my coding (not >> very much) has been without it. Can anyone suggest any drawbacks to using >> ClutterScript? >> >> After reading the introduction the first question that came to mind was; >> What if I am populating a ClutterBox with some text actors, but I am using >> a database to read a list of values that I need text actors for? Would I >> have to dynamically generate the JSON code in my program? I noticed you can >> load JSON from a string, but then how do you merge the generated code with >> the external JSON file? >> >> thnx >> >> -- >> Duff >> > > > > -- > Duff > > _______________________________________________ > clutter-app-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.clutter-project.org/listinfo/clutter-app-devel-list > > - The last time I used it, it was hard for me to find docs to see all the features it supports. I had to look through the parsing code to find out. - Maybe if new features are added to the API ClutterScript might not reflect them right away? Jonathan
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