A simple advice: whenever you build an app that can support some sort of
scripting for the UI definition, use it.
I used to build pretty much everything in code directly, and realized
eventually that by putting as much as I can into the json, I can rework my
UI layout without re-compiling. Heck, I now leave all UI layout work to
the artists, and I can focus more on actual system code and business logic.
By the way, this also includes animations and transitions, which is usally
what takes a lot of time to fine tune to get the results you want.
ClutterStates are especially useful in jsons if your app does a lot of
animations. You want your widget to go offscreen to the right instead of
left? No problem. Simply edit the json, modifiy your animation, and
restart (or reload). No compile needed.
Bottom line, the ClutterScript is simply a mechanism that will build
GObjects defined in a json file. For each object, you can set their
properties direclty in the json. Then, you can fetch only the objects you
need and work with them, using clutter_script_get_object().
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Dominique
On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:44:21 -0500, Brian Duffy <[email protected]> wrote:
Good points. Also, all of those brackets are giving me a headache.
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Jonathan Ryan
<[email protected]
wrote:
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
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Duff
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- 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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