Re: [E-devel] Ewl widget positioning

2008-03-23 Thread dan sinclair
Jose Gonzalez wrote: >> > >However you have it (though rel coords would seem best), >> > > if you really want ewl to be a flexible tool for building >> > > artistic, rich apps, then you'll want a natural way to >> > > arbitrarily position child *widgets* - not just evas objects.. >> > > an

Re: [E-devel] Ewl widget positioning

2008-03-20 Thread Nathan Ingersoll
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Jose Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just to make it a bit more flexible though, let's also > allow for 'importing' evas objects - if possible (not sure if ewl > has this at the moment, but just in case). The way we usually do this is outlined in the

Re: [E-devel] Ewl widget positioning

2008-03-20 Thread Jose Gonzalez
> > >However you have it (though rel coords would seem best), > > > if you really want ewl to be a flexible tool for building > > > artistic, rich apps, then you'll want a natural way to > > > arbitrarily position child *widgets* - not just evas objects.. > > > and to allow for custom kin

Re: [E-devel] Ewl widget positioning

2008-03-19 Thread Jose Gonzalez
> >However you have it (though rel coords would seem best), > > if you really want ewl to be a flexible tool for building > > artistic, rich apps, then you'll want a natural way to > > arbitrarily position child *widgets* - not just evas objects.. > > and to allow for custom kinds of chil

Re: [E-devel] Ewl widget positioning

2008-03-19 Thread dan sinclair
Jose Gonzalez wrote: > > You can do this now with Ewl. The only problem being, everything > > is absolute coordinates which is a bit strange for this kind of > > widget. If you want to do this, inherit ewl_box, remove configure > > event, add your own configure and use ewl_object_place to put

Re: [E-devel] Ewl widget positioning

2008-03-19 Thread Nathan Ingersoll
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Jose Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However you have it (though rel coords would seem best), > if you really want ewl to be a flexible tool for building artistic, > rich apps, then you'll want a natural way to arbitrarily position > child *widgets*

Re: [E-devel] Ewl widget positioning

2008-03-19 Thread Jose Gonzalez
> You can do this now with Ewl. The only problem being, everything > is absolute coordinates which is a bit strange for this kind of > widget. If you want to do this, inherit ewl_box, remove configure > event, add your own configure and use ewl_object_place to put the > widgets where you wan

Re: [E-devel] Ewl widget positioning

2008-03-19 Thread dan sinclair
Peter Wehrfritz wrote: > dan sinclair schrieb: >> Currently Ewl positions widgets based on absolute coordinates. This >> works but isn't unnecessarily optional. Thoughts on changing the >> internals of Ewl to use parent relative placement of widgets? >> >> This would, hopefully, simplify some of

Re: [E-devel] Ewl widget positioning

2008-03-19 Thread dan sinclair
Jose Gonzalez wrote: > Dan wrote: > > > Currently Ewl positions widgets based on absolute coordinates. This > > works but isn't unnecessarily optional. Thoughts on changing the > > internals of Ewl to use parent relative placement of widgets? > > > > This would, hopefully, simplify some

Re: [E-devel] Ewl widget positioning

2008-03-19 Thread Peter Wehrfritz
dan sinclair schrieb: > Currently Ewl positions widgets based on absolute coordinates. This > works but isn't unnecessarily optional. Thoughts on changing the > internals of Ewl to use parent relative placement of widgets? > > This would, hopefully, simplify some of the container code and allow

Re: [E-devel] Ewl widget positioning

2008-03-19 Thread Jose Gonzalez
Dan wrote: > Currently Ewl positions widgets based on absolute coordinates. This > works but isn't unnecessarily optional. Thoughts on changing the > internals of Ewl to use parent relative placement of widgets? > > This would, hopefully, simplify some of the container code and allow >