On Sat, 25 Nov 2017 11:05:07 +0100 Pierre Couderc <pie...@couderc.eu> said:
> I am trying to develop a first efl application. > > Wow. It is no so simple... I guess I can only talk about: https://www.enlightenment.org/develop/efl/start https://www.enlightenment.org/docs/c/start https://www.enlightenment.org/develop/efl/mainloop https://www.enlightenment.org/develop/efl/ecore_idlers I wrote those. I didn't get around to filling in any of the other links/pages there. I did try and cover C as a language in practice (which wasn't a short document), and hello world and some loop basics. Beware the docs/links that are covering our EO beta APIs - do not pay attention to them yet. > 1 - Basic tutorial are sometimes wrong or unreadable. I correct them > when possible... I just looked at your wiki commits. You're right. Whoever wrote these didn't even compile+run their examples. That's bad. > 2- Some basic tutorials are missing and particularly on Elementary A lot is missing. Also there isn't a lot of "impetus" to go write lots more because Work is going on for our EO API stuff which actually is a fairly different API (though feels similar), and until that's stable and released... things are kind of "on hold" as documenting "legacy API" is documenting an API we want people to move away from over time to the EO based one. > 2a : Where "container" are introduced ? https://www.enlightenment.org/develop/legacy/api/c/start#containerslist.html Technically it's just a reference, But containers are pretty simple. They contain child widgets and control their position/size, etc. etc. > I seem to understand an horizontal box would be fine for me. Is there a > tutorial on that, or a introduction somewhere ? https://www.enlightenment.org/develop/legacy/api/c/start#group__Elm__Box.html also beware elm_obj_* API's - they are the EO API's and are an intermediate stage of working on EO for EFL... stick to elm_box* API's > 2b : I have discovered (not in https://www.enlightenment.org/...) that a > fine elementary_test exists. > > It is a fine tutorial on possibilities of elementary. > > Where is its source so I can copy/paste elements of it ? In the EFL source tree. src/bin/elementary/test*.[ch] files. > I have soon found a test_entry.c in some bin (???) directory (by a very > subtle grep)... > > Is there some introduction to it ? yes. those are the files. They aren't a clean document on their own but a very good and well rounded "here is everything and how to put it together and make it work. Read this". elementary_test ships with efl. efl installs a .desktop file for it so it appears in your app menus (under Development). The src is as above. Our docs do need cleaning up and work. For sure. But the best thing to do is ask a question. Get a pointer to something and it'll help you a lot. Like elementary_test and it's source. FYI if I have to work with a library (I have worked with many in the past) I first look at on-line docs, if there, if not, I grab the source and look for examples, docs etc. dirs or test apps/tools and find the src in the tree. EFL has docs panning all these areas. We have an examples dir (src/examples). We have tests in src/tests, and tools and whatever are src/bin/LIBNAME per library ... and elementary houses elementary_test :). You can also look at full applications like terminology, Rage, EDI, Ephoto, Ecrire ... etc. etc. etc. (Enlightenment itself too but it's huge and complex... start with the smaller ones). > Thanks > > PC > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
