On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 01:54:04PM -0600, Brian Mattern wrote: > On Tuesday 22 November 2005 10:07, Andrew Williams wrote: > > OK, so I wrote before a nice app for showing images one after the other > > and allowing you to caption them. After I spoke to Atmos about this > > topic we thought merging it to entice was a good idea, which I think is > > still the case. > > > > What has changed is that I have been offered a small bounty to actually > > implement this at last, so I think I better! > > > > 2 questions arise: > > 1) How should the backend be stored? There is an old format that will > > need to be supported, but I figure a wrapper script would be fine > > (though this perhaps implies input from stdin as well as a file based > > backend). I figured that an eet might be a winner, but I thought I would > > get input. > > > 2) How best to write text over the image. A semi-transparent thing is > > what I had before and it worked well, but the problem is it was > > esmart-textarea, which I belive is not in action any more, any nice > > editable-text replacement? > > > Is esmart-textarea really out of action? what does exige (e run dialog > thingie) use?
hmm, good point "esmart_text_entry" I must have mis-remembered the esmart not working thingy... > > The only other editable text smartobj that I know of at the moment is e17's. > I > personally think it would be nice to pull all of the e17 widgets into libE > (or a new library under apps/e/src/libs), so we can use them externally. They > would be really nice for exactly this type of case. > yeah - we could call it the "E Widget Library" lol > I'm not sure yet whether I'd prefer a caption beneath the image (so you can > see it without covering up any part of the image) or trans text overlayed. > I'm sort of leaning towards 'beneath'. But, then again, this would be a theme > decision (or possibly an option). > indeed, these things can be figured out if I ever get it working ;) > > Thanks all for input - you know you need to invest thought in how you > > want to manage your photos from this point on ;) > > > > Andy > > You know, it always takes me a few seconds to figure out who the hell Andrew > Williams is... btw, does this mean you're going to change your nick to > HandyAndW? :-P > heh, no - the E never stood for Elcock! > rephorm > HandyAndE ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
