Re: [E-devel] State name?

[Andreas V. <li...@br...>]

Am Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:36:29 +0000 schrieb Iván Briano (Sachiel):

> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Andreas Volz <li...@br...>
> wrote:
> > Am Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:20:49 +0000 schrieb Iván Briano (Sachiel):
> >
> >> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Andreas Volz <li...@br...>
> >> wrote:
> >> > ...
> >> > Here I need to include the value in new_name. Hm, do I have to
> >> > include the value in state variable?
> >> >
> >> > Sure I could add a state and then read the states list again. But
> >> > if I like to add a state and then simply modify its properties I
> >> > see currently no easy way to do it.
> >> >
> >> > Maybe I didn't understand the state value concept. I simply use
> >> > 0.00 always to be honest.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Your Edje is old, every state function in Edje_Edit now receives
> >> the state value separately from the name. Documentation is still
> >> not fixed, but will be done and committed by the beginning of next
> >> week.
> >>
> >> As to how it used to work, when you create a state, it uses 0.0
> >> as the value, and you just pass the name to the function, for every
> >> other state function, you have to pass both name and state within
> >> the string, as it says there: "default 0.00".
> >
> > Ah, I see. Thank you. Another question:
> >
> > @return An Eina_List* of string (char *)containing all the states
> > names found
> >
> >   edje_edit_part_states_list_get()
> >
> > I think it would be good to have a Eina_List with a char*, float
> > structure instead of a char* with value included. Is there a special
> > reason for the char* including float. It costs me a string concat a
> > string parse each time.
> >
> 
> Legacy. It was like that and hasn't been changed yet, but it will.
> A lot of work is going to be made on the Edje_Edit front, if you
> are writing the bindings for it for C++, I suggest you stop and
> focus on something else for the time being, as Edje_Edit doesn't
> have much of a use if not for changing the contents of an .edj file.

Yes I'm writing the C++ wrapper. As there's yet a good GUI editor I
concentrate on a command line Edje editor. I think this is really
missing. I decided to write it in C++. When do you think will the big
changed in Edje_Edit be finished? Then I'll concentrate on something
else.

regards
	Andreas