Hi,
On 6 December 2016 at 09:53, Bruno Dilly <bdi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 12/06/2016 01:18 AM, Bruno Dilly wrote:
> > > Hi jpeg,
> > >
> > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 2:21 AM, Jean-Philippe André <j...@videolan.org
> >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> This seems to assume a finite and known in advance number of seats?
> > >> I'm not well aware of what the seats are or how that's all supposed to
> > >> work, but this sounds strange to me.
> > >>
> > >>
> > > On theme point of view, I can't see how this could be any different.
> > > If you don't know how many seats do you support or which seats would be
> > > supported,
> > > how could you be able to design it?
> > >
> > > EDC is pretty much a lot of parts with different states and programas
> > > listening to specific signals-sources and taking an action when it
> > matches.
> > > Everything is hardcoded on EDC files, right?
> > >
> > > But nothing stops you to create an UI more dynamic on code.
> > > You could listen to "seat,added,X" and create a random color
> > > to represent it. Then when you receive "mouse,over,X" for specific
> parts,
> > > you could change their colors, images, emit different sounds or
> whatever
> > > that makes sense for you.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >> Maybe someone can enlighten me? Why would the theme know the number of
> > >> seats?
> > >> (the approach probably makes perfect sense but i'm not sure what edje
> > >> should do wrt. seats)
> > >>
> > >
> >
> > I can't remember if you can currently do something like the % operator
> > with edje, but you could make it so that the first 4 seats get different
> > colors and then the 5th gets the same as the first. If you were only
> > trying to do colors if you can extract the X part (again don't remember
> > if this is possible) you could use a macro and substitute in a lookup
> > table for colors (saves writing every part X times)
> >
>
> Using scripts it is doable.
> Lets say, you could do something like:
>
> program {
> name: "part,in";
> signal: "mouse,in,*";
> source: "part";
> script {
> handle_mouse_in(sig);
> }
> }
>
> on handle_mouse_in you would be able to get the seat name
> using something like strcpy(seat_name, sig[strlen("mouse,in,")]);
>
> You could even create a list and append new random colors for each
> announced seat.
>
> But it's not only about colors, you could select images, or font size /
> families... anything
> that could matter for a theme.
>
Thanks for the response, Bruno.
This is all pretty much what I had in mind, I just wanted clarification.
And indeed beyond scripting or app code I can't see how we would design for
N users.
--
Jean-Philippe André
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