On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:19:10 +0100 Vincent Torri <vincent.to...@gmail.com> said:

> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:30:27 +0100 Andreas Volz <li...@brachttal.net> said:
> >
> > rotary.. what?
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've some special widgets which I couldn't assemble from other existing
> >> widgets (rotary). So I like to create a new one. Could you tell me the
> >> way how to do this?
> >>
> >> Should I create a new one in elementary/src/lib/ (I won't commit it
> >> without permission!) or is there some elementary-extras library in
> >> PROTO? Or should I create a private lib on top of elementary for my
> >> special widgets?
> >
> > depends on what your widget is exactly. u can create private widgets... but
> > the widget api for elm is explicitly unstable (elm_widget.h) and marked and
> > documented as such.
> >
> >> Could someone explain me a difference between elm_*.c, elc_*.c, elu_*.c
> >> and els_*.c. Is this documented somewhere? I'm not sure which one to
> >> take as template for my new widget.
> >
> > elm == widgets/core
> > elc == collection widgets -> widgets that pretty much glue existing widgets
> > together in a useful "collection"
> > elu == utils
> > els == smart objects (not widgets).
> 
> that's really something to add in the documentation section, like
> "developping your own widgets", or something like that

it's actually not in the docs because at this stage its highly discouraged.
your widgets WILL break over newer releases of elm.

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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    ras...@rasterman.com


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