Hello all, I would like to share some ideas for Bob, which I see as an evolution of edje. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Since I've started developing, back in 2008, a C++ Gui Library, which has been already removed from assembla a long time ago, I've already been eyeing the project Adam&Eve from Adobe Software Library (ASL). Documentation can be found here: http://stlab.adobe.com/group__asl__overview.html I think it is obvious the advantage of writing in a declarative way a UI. But, writing UIs in EFL/Elementary are still a bit awkward and requires more code than is necessary, because edje doesn't offer a more dynamic layout setting. This generally requires box widgets to be instantiated and edje layouts to be placed as small fixed dialogs inside a multiple boxed layout. If bob/edje would incorporate ASL's Adam&Eve idea, we could develop more fluid and easily portable layouts that would could ease developing applications based in EFL. The layout "language" could be written in Lua and a C engine could do the automatic layout placement. It would require that the language gives room for manual placement so the layout can be finely-tuned too, but I think this idea can vastly ease development of UI for applications. BTW, there was a question about constraint solver on the ML recently. I think it might've been related to this topic. Regards, -- Felipe Magno de Almeida ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
