Hello pygtk World, i'm now and then playing with the idea to be able to just draw your zui widgets in like inkscape, "tag" them, and you're ready to go. the prior experiments we're made with svg+javascript[0] but i dropped it pretty soon, as i was afraid the performance on more complex widgets would be horrible.
then i tried to learn c, so i could use clutter[1], to get hardware acceleration at least for moving the "sprites". well, it[2] worked, but i really don't want to write so much code what you need for c. alone the hassle with xml and unicode... so, now that i'm waiting for vala to go "main stream" ;) i got pretty exited about the new <audio> tag in html5. made my custom svg+javascript slider widget, only to realise that no browser yet supports a way to get the size of buffered audio (nor current volume)... i got unispired, as the widget would then be not so cool ;P then i saw this cool tutorial couple days a go http://www.aclevername.com/articles/python-webgui/ and got something done that does python<->webkit(javascript) http://osku.de/simsui/simsui.js-pygtk-webkit-prototype.ogg (a volume slider, to replace my gnome volume applet, if i knew how;) yes, performance is bad (with complex widgets). but it would at least be a nice simple (as simple in no need to handle svg parsing and drawing the elements, nor events) experiment "framework". (yes, you can use "any" browser to test the svg+javascript widgets, but you cant use any system hardware nor libraries == very boring apps, at least for me) so, is it possible to do a custom gtk widget from webkit ? like having: - mywebkitwidget.myfunction() in python executing a javascript function myfunction() in the webkit document. - mywebkitwidget.value in python would get a variable from the javacript in the webkit document. - gtk events i could trigger from the webkit document javascript... i'm way over my (self learned wannabe coder) head with this stuff, so i may be talking all bollocks... cheers Andre "Osku" Schmidt [0] http://osku.de/svg/gui-examples/ [1] http://www.clutter-project.org/ [2] http://osku.de/simsui/simsui-PROTOTYPE3.ogg ps. if it's not obvious, (in this "volume/buffer" slider example) the idea is that you have svg elements (yes groups are also allowed) that have id's "track", "thumb", "stark" (comes from lautstärke and is 5 chars long. lol, didnt come up with anything more appropriate, sorry:) and "stark_clip". "track" (yes, it may have opacity 0) is which width (or height, if i would have implemented it) "thumb" follows. "stark_clip" must be a rectangle in the clip-path used by "stark", as its width is modified to clip the "stark". thats it. the code is so ugly and shamelessly assimilated from the tutorial, so it's trying to hide down here... http://osku.de/simsui/simsui.js.py.tar.gz bugs included! ;) _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [email protected] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
