El Wednesday 19 March 2008 19:26:18 dan sinclair escribió: > Currently Ewl positions widgets based on absolute coordinates. This > works but isn't unnecessarily optional. Thoughts on changing the > internals of Ewl to use parent relative placement of widgets? > I have been giving this a lot of thought since I first read the original mail. It couldn't have come in a better time since we could merge this with the "Object Layout Library" SoC idea.
But I cannot avoid to think there are some limits and problems I cannot visualize. For example, why didn't EWL implement the widgets as Smart Objects? This way Evas or Edje could be used as layout engines. For the book I'm writing I have gone throught the common widgets in my head and couldn't see any unsolvable problem with using Edje for layout and behaviour of these widgets. Other than list based widgets . So I will need your help to understand these limitations. I began to experiment by splitting widgets in three parts. The widget logic was implemented as an Smart Object. The widget layout and behavior was implemented as a single Edje group consisting only of SWALLOW and GROUP parts. Swallow parts were used to control layout and behaviour of child widgets, if any. Group parts were used to control layout and behaviour of the graphical elements that decorate the widget. This made simpler for an artist to limit itself to aesthetic changes and only dealing with layout and behaviour if he wanted to. I can see why this would seem hackish, thus my SoC idea was to take the "Object Layout Library" based on Ed to implement something like this in a more clean way. A method to layout any type of widget without losing capabilities that Edje provides, like allowing the artist to alter sizes, visiblity and behaviour of the whole application and each of its widgets using transitions (by implementing the window as a three-part-widget itself). But I think I'm missing some cases to sudy and I would need you guys to send me examples in which this approach wouldn't work or be unconvenient. I would like to submit my SoC application this monday so I can keep the application updated during the week with your feedback and perhaps by friday having a clear design for the "Object Layout Library". Thanks for reading all this =) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
