On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:46:28 -0400 Tianran Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> i am still new to e17, so please do not mind my ignorance. > > the current implementation of etox uses a evas object for each bit of > text. this is fine for static text. but for large text that changes > frequently (say for web browser, or word processor, even) this seems > quite slow. inserting a single letter can cause all evas objects to be > reseted or even recreated. > > will it be better to let etox be some parallel object as etext or etextblock? etox as such is depreciated as such - evas has an experimental textblock object that does most of what etox used to do, but it's api is marked as experimental and well... i'm rewriting it atm (u'll see textblock2 api calls now in cvs) as i learnt a few things in the process of doing it that i'm not fixing. textblock is supremely more efficient that etox - by light years. anyone with experience in text formatting is more than welcome to help/give ideas etc. i had a chat with an ex word perfect coder recently about this topic and some of textblocks' design before was spot on and some was wrong. i'm redoing it to fix the wrong bits. of course input is more than welcome. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
