On 03/05/13 00:34, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 2013 16:30:21 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri > <barbi...@profusion.mobi> said: > > none of our "users" are programming in javascript... and almost no amount of > suggesting changes that. i want to see elev8 used more, but even *WE* don't > use > it currently for anything really. > > one big issue is that it's just too limited. a small subset of efl is > accessible. animators i can tie to elm objects, but i can't use timers. no > jobs. > i can't make basic evas rectangles, images, play with evas map, and only a > subset of elm widgets are there etc. etc. - i couldn't write efbb in elev8. > > there's much more that also just isn't there. at least at this stage i have > nothing "trivial" that can fit into what elev8 can do, as anything else i am > working on is big and chunky (enlightenment, terminology), and asking others > to > fit themselves into the subset of things that elev8 can do is a big ask right > now. > > also there is just only so much in the way of time and resources to go around > - > we can't do everything. while a gui builder that can generate elev8 js has > been > discussed and is something no one is against at all, it just isn't the actual > task at hand. some other day/time/in the future maybe, but if i had N people > available, i'd sooner have them filling out elev8 to cover a much larger > amount > of efl's api as per above before then writing a js back-end for the gui > builder > as per the original subject (as it'd need a FULL widget set compliment to work > there).
With that being said, JS output is also planned IIRC, no? -- Tom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap2 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
