Re: [E-devel] Edje animations without EET, or with Evas only?

[Milosz D. <md...@re...>]

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:

>On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:41:00 -0700 Milosz Derezynski <md...@re...>
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>>Is it possible to do animations with only Evas (without using Edje), or 
>>at least with Edje, but without using EET?
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>>For implementing winamp3/5 WAL skins i'd need animations but it's 
>>unfeasible to preprocess the WAL each time and create appropriate .eet 
>>files from it. Although that's an option that i would use if everything 
>>else fails (unhandy for the user etc...),i'd prefer to do without that.
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>actually - that'd be kind-of REALLY COOL. a WAL to EDJE converter :)
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Yes it really would :)

The whole trouble with this that while most of Wasabi is opened, MAKI
(the scripting language, well as you probably know) is not. I will
reverse engineer MAKI when i have the UI part done.



What i'm doing right now:

The code i linked to in a former post was just a test - Right now i'm
reworking it using GLib, Ecore/Evas and libxml2.

From GLib i'm using only the GObject system and the signaling which is
more elaborated and flexible than Ecore's/Evas's (they do their job for
what they're meant, but i need more complex stuff for the WAL UI
backend). All the windowing and graphics are managed by Ecore_Evas, the
GLib/GTK main loop is not being used but rather the Ecore one. So in
fact i have hybrid GLib/Ecore/Evas objects and it works very well together.

As soon as i'm at the point where it can load and display a WAL skin
i'll start reverse engineering MAKI. Many skins don't require MAKI and
will already somewhat work so that will be not completely useless yet.
Once i have made some progress with MAKI i'll start looking into coding
a WAL-to-EET converter :)

Here are some screenshots:

http://linux-media.net/walengine-ss1.jpg
Looks much like a WA2 skin, but is in fact a WAL skin (notice the "ML"
button)

http://linux-media.net/walengine-ss2.jpg
Pepsi skin, also with a few errors yet

http://linux-media.net/walengine-ss3.jpg
Here at the top right you can also see the WAL debugging shell
which provides run-time information about various WAL objects and state
data

http://linux-media.net/walengine-ss4-mmd3.jpg
This is a rather complex WAL skin, it has a lot of display errors so
far because many elements aren't handled right yet.

:)