Sorry for hijacking this thread again, but I found out that the setup.py in
kaa does not install candy by default. Was that intentional?
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Chandan Pitta" wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> "Chandan Pitta" wrote:
> >> > More questions (sorry I decided to use my weekend to understand
> candy). I
> >> am
> >> > trying to create a grid of Text widgets, but Grid requries a template.
> >> What
> >> > is that? Can't I simply pass None?
> >>
> >> A grid _does_not_ take a list of widgets to be shown, it gets a list
> >> of something (e.g. in Freevo a Menu object) and iterates over this
> >> list and creates the widgets. To do that it need a template how to
> >> create widgets from it. Look at flickr.py, the list of of type
> >> Image(object) with a title and a thumbnail attribute.
> >>
> >
> > I see. This makes sense. I guess I will have to do a paradigm shift in
> the
> > way I think about graphics :).
>
> Yes :) It was not designed to be a universal GUI module, it was
> designed with an application like Freevo in mind.
>
> > One thing I thought was odd is that the grid has its own
> > animation. Is it possible to make the animation read from xml? I
> > mean we could have a default animation, but what if a theme wants to
> > animate the scrolling differently? Say change the duration of
> > animation or make the animation bounce (view slightly overshoots the
> > destination and snaps back).
>
> All possible. It could be enhanced to read that from the XML file as
> well, but my first task was to make it work in the first place :)
>
> It has its own animation because you can also animate the grid itself
> moving it around without conflicts with the internal animations. But
> the internal animations could get some additional paramater in the
> future like bounce or to set the alpha function for clutter.
>
>
> Dischi
>
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