On 9/1/07, Marijn van Vliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Evolve was just the thing I was looking for. Thanks alot Hisham, for
> your thourough answer.
>
Quick answer as I need to run, Evolve needs an update to compile right
now (some eet work). It should hopefully be done soon. (=
> The suggestion Youness makes is interesting, but I would opt for
> Evolve to have a plugin system, instead of throwing away the entire
> lib (and many, many hours of labour). As far as I can see on first
> glance, the syntax of Evolve is very similar to Edje, so nothing
> really new to learn here. Being able to create your own custom ETK
> widgets AND using them with Evolve seems like a sane addition to the
> lib.
>
> Marijn.
>
> On Sep 1, 2007, at 7:38 PM, Youness Alaoui wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > This is interesting, but I thought the same as Marijn when I first
> > saw EWL/ETK. I had an idea about providing some kind of
> > plugin system for edje, where you can create custom types. I was
> > more thinking of something like :
> > part {
> > name, "my_entry";
> > type, ETK_ENTRY;
> > mouse_event, 1;
> > ...
> > }
> > part {
> > name, "my_combobox";
> > type, EWL_COMBOBOX;
> > ...
> > }
> >
> > and those parts would listen by default to some signals so you can
> > interact with them (like a SIGNAL_EMIT "appen_item" "first
> > choice"; for the combobox, etc...).
> >
> > Evolve looks really nice, but unfortunately, it's about learning
> > yet another E library, and using yet another library, and a
> > new syntax, and you're stuck with just ETK, etc...
> >
> > With the proposal above, it would also help us build custom
> > widgets, so for example, you write a group to represent something,
> > and in any other group you could do for example :
> > part {
> > name, "my_custom_widget";
> > type, GROUP;
> > ...
> > group {
> > name, "name_of_another_group";
> > }
> > }
> >
> > It would be very helpful.
> >
> > Hisham, maybe you should write some page with the listing of all
> > the ETK related projects (etk, evolve, any other?) and show
> > the %age of completion.. evolve seems to be beta (from the README
> > file), but how much beta is it? can it be used safely? etc...
> >
> > I hope this will proposition will be taking into consideration, as
> > it will greatly enhance edje programming.
> >
> > KaKaRoTo
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 08:03:55PM +0300, Hisham Mardam Bey wrote:
> >> On 9/1/07, Marijn van Vliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> While reading the documentation on Edje, I was instantly excited.
> >>> True
> >>> seperation of programming code and interface design, all in a
> >>> clean and
> >>> simple way. Then I went on and read about the EWL libary, build
> >>> on top of
> >>> Edje. And all the Edje goodness was gone. In order to have
> >>> prewritten
> >>> textboxes, suddenly I have to write C code again, just like I
> >>> would with
> >>> any other toolkit. Is there a way to layout EWL Widgets just like
> >>> I would
> >>> rectangles and images with Edje? Something like:
> >>>
> >>> part {
> >>> name, "Some_random_textbox";
> >>> type, TEXTBOX;
> >>> mouse_events, 1;
> >>>
> >>> description {
> >>> rel1 ...
> >>> rel2 ...
> >>> }
> >>> }
> >>> ...
> >>> program {
> >>> name, "text_altered";
> >>> signal, "text_altered";
> >>> source, "Some_random_textbox";
> >>> action, SIGNAL_EMIT "hello" "world";
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> .. oh well, you get the point.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Kind regards to the great people who though of Edje!
> >>>
> >>
> >> Have a look at Evolve in cvs. It does what you want but uses Etk
> >> instead of Ewl. You can do something like:
> >>
> >> widget
> >> {
> >> type: "window";
> >> name: "main_window";
> >> title: "Evolve";
> >> show_all: 1;
> >> }
> >>
> >> widget
> >> {
> >> type: "notebook";
> >> name: "main_notebook";
> >> parent: "main_window";
> >> }
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> widget
> >> {
> >> type: "button";
> >> name: "...;
> >> parent: "...;
> >> label: "Button with an image";
> >> }
> >>
> >> and you can also have Edje code right in there like:
> >>
> >> edje
> >> {
> >> #include "edje_code.edc"
> >> }
> >>
> >> where edje_code.edc is the normal Edje syntax you are used to.
> >>
> >> You can use Evolve to integrate Edje with Etk to either theme custom
> >> Etk apps using Edje, create Edje apps with Etk widgets, or if you
> >> simply want to avoid writing C code to create your Etk application.
> >>
> >> Some screenshots here:
> >>
> >> http://hisham.cc/files/modular9_main_eq_list2.png
> >>
> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/580107290/
> >>
> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/580430095/
> >>
> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/580430191/
> >>
> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/580430171/
> >>
> >> You might notice some of those screenshots have show you Evolve
> >> builder, its a gui that allows you to build your Evolve files without
> >> having to manually write them (work in progress).
> >>
> >> For a small introduction about Evolve, look here:
> >>
> >> http://hisham.cc/articles/2007/05/30/evolve-introduction
> >>
> >> Hope this helps.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Hisham Mardam Bey
> >> http://hisham.cc/
> >> +9613609386
> >> Codito Ergo Sum (I Code Therefore I Am)
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