Re: [E-devel] Resizing Edje Parts - on the road to entrance preview

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On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:32:56 +0900,
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ra...@ra...> wrote :

> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:11:52 +0200 Simon TRENY <sim...@fr...>
> babbled:
> 
> > On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:36:05 +0100,
> > Essien Ita Essien <es...@wa...> wrote :
> > 
> > > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:55:45 +0100 Essien Ita Essien
> > > > <es...@wa...> babbled:
> > > >
> > > > no attachment :)
> > > >
> > > > but - note the livethumb uses a BUFFER canvas - it sets the
> > > > resolution of the BUFFER canvas to be higher than the output.
> > > > make this resolution high enough (eg 800x600) and evas will
> > > > scale that 800x600 "buffer" canvas down to the size of the
> > > > output of the preview. that is how the livethumb works. 
> > > ahhhh.... that was what CodeWarrior was talking about when he
> > > said I could use a buffer... neat. ok.. i'm going back to grok
> > > e_livethumb with an eye to steal this new information. :)
> > 
> > If you use the buffer engine to do that, you won't be able interact
> > with the mouse (I think you said you wanted that), or you'll have to
> > feed the events yourself (a bit painful).
> 
> ecore_evas provides a buffer canvas wrapper that returns an evas
> image object and does all the event feeding for you :)

Oh.. Great :)

> 
> > Simon
> > 
> > > 
> > > thnx.
> > > >   
> > > >> Hiya Everybody,
> > > >>
> > > >> I've been on a slow road to building a real preview object for 
> > > >> entrance_edit_gui. The idea is to always show the full
> > > >> entrance in a small preview window, complete with all the edje
> > > >> effects that the theme or background may have to offer.
> > > >> Eventually too, complete with the greetings, etc.  Right now
> > > >> though, all i just want is to display (obviously :) ).
> > > >>
> > > >> Raster and Codewarrior asked me to look thru e_livethumb
> > > >> subsystem. And I discovered i knew nothing of Esmarts and
> > > >> coding that the evas layer, so I went to fix that and I'm
> > > >> better in that regard now. Here I'm attaching
> > > >> minientrance.tar.gz (NOTE: THE ENTRANCE THEME FILE I USED IS
> > > >> HARDCODED, PLEASE MODIFY B4 YOU COMPILE) which is a complete
> > > >> esmart object for entrance that i'm playing with to understand
> > > >> the problem (apparently, there's an incomplete and not used
> > > >> entrance_smart object in entrance right now, but its well...
> > > >> not quite in use, so its rusty).
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> The main problem I have with this smart object and infact, in
> > > >> general is that when I load the edje, the main login box,
> > > >> refuses to resize below its min geometry. I do not know if its
> > > >> possible to *force* an edje part to resize below its min width
> > > >> or so.  If you compile minientrance, and resize the window,
> > > >> you'll notice the box just refuses to resize with the rest of
> > > >> the ui.
> > > >>
> > > >> What I was aiming at doing is to instantiate the entrance_smart
> > > >> obj, and give it a size say 100x50, and have it render itself
> > > >> properly as a preview. When I then change the theme or
> > > >> background in the gui config tool, I'll just make the esmart
> > > >> object refresh itself. Basically, i guess once the smart
> > > >> object works well, its all ok. the next issue will be loading
> > > >> it in an etk/ewl canvas or something. But that's another
> > > >> story :)
> > > >>
> > > >> Am I on the right track? Someone, smack me on the head with a 
> > > >> solution/idea :)
> > > >>
> > > >> cheers,
> > > >> Essien
> > > >>
> > > >>
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