On Mon, 19 May 2014 23:40:13 +0100 Andrew Williams <a...@andywilliams.me> said:
> Hi guys, > > After opening this task about indow sizes in elm not respecting the > scale set: > https://phab.enlightenment.org/T1263 > I realised that these are all set through evas_object_resize which > clearly cannot know about elm scaling. > > Would there be any objection to creating an elm_win_resize or > elm_win_size_set method that were to apply the scaling to the values > beffore passing back to evas resize? > > Let me know equally if I've missed something but the elm_test code is > all this way too. not so simple. as daniel mentioned.. this is doable with a resize multipling by scale... what we are currently missign in elm is 2 things. 1. a nice simple way to add extra minimum sizing to a widget. currently the ADVICE it so make a table, put an invisible rect in the 0,0 1x1 cell ANd your real widget in the same cell. set a min size hint on the rect and presto - it acts as an extra "control" on the table and thus your widget (set widget to fill/expand). you can set the min size and multiple by scaling if you want. it'd be likely useful if this trick were formalised into a widget and/or some utility func. a simple elc_ thing to wrap this up would work - then if it scales the min size by scale factor or also put in finger size. and 2. more your focus - though #1 often is related. you want a *PREFERRED* size for an object - an initial size that is possibly bigger than min size and less than max - somewhere in between. believe it or not we have a "request" size which is kind of intended for exactly this. what we DON'T have is logic in elm that... * watches for changes in preferred size and if > 0x0, just like min size, propagates preferred size to a parent widget. * that takes preferred size once it propagates to the window and on first show actually resizes to that size * code that might set preferred size AND account for scaling reality is that you have a window where some widget (or widgets) - eg the text entry, is what you want to have at a preferred size on start... not the window as a whole, so you really want this propagation. it requires the same calcs as min - but providing preferred size as if it were min, then passing onto parent etc. ... this is what we really want. problem is - we haven't done it yet. this is the solution we want... not elm_win_reisze (that uses scaling) which is just as much a "workaround" as evas_object_resize on the window itself :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
