Re: [Freevo-devel] How to find out position of current menuitem?

2008-07-23 Thread XiouXin Huang
2008/7/24 Duncan Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Are you asking about Freevo-1, I suspect that you are. > > I think that the menus are a list of item objects, you can use the index > method of a list to find its position. > > HTH > Duncan > Yes, I'm using Freevo-1. The situation is, I wrote a test

Re: [Freevo-devel] Skin Demonstration

2008-07-23 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > Dan Sully wrote on 23/07/08 02:45 PM: >> http://centerstageproject.com/the-future.php > > Now that's sexy. :) Agreed. There is some stuff I don't like, but some parts are very cool. Besides the GUI itself I like the possibilty to jump between the first letters of the item

Re: [Freevo-devel] Planning to write a button widget for candy

2008-07-23 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > Dirk Meyer wrote on 23/07/08 01:34 PM: >> Everytime I read something like this (also in my code) I do not like >> that fact that you have to use height for rectangle and a font size >> for the label. I guess label should also have a height and calculate >> the font size ba

Re: [Freevo-devel] How to find out position of current menuitem?

2008-07-23 Thread Duncan Webb
XiouXin Huang wrote: > Hi, all > > If I just move arround a menu with some items, and > never select/enter any single item, how do I know > my position of current menuitem that I stop at? > > To make it clear, There's a menu with 10 items in it, > then I press "up" or "down" button to navigate th

Re: [Freevo-devel] Skin Demonstration

2008-07-23 Thread Jason Tackaberry
Dan Sully wrote on 23/07/08 02:45 PM: > http://centerstageproject.com/the-future.php Now that's sexy. :) - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based application

Re: [Freevo-devel] Skin Demonstration

2008-07-23 Thread Dan Sully
* Dirk Meyer shaped the electrons to say... >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> There's a few months, you ask me to design a skin for Freevo2. >> I've began the last week, and here is the first previous of the main menu: >> http://atlantice.free.fr/freevo2-0.1.swf > >That looks very nice. Three things co

Re: [Freevo-devel] Skin Demonstration

2008-07-23 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > Dirk Meyer wrote on 23/07/08 02:18 PM: >> Maybe, but maybe BusyIndicator is even better because we do not care >> if it is a carousel or something looking more like Knight Rider >> (e.g. Windows XP start). > > Ahhh, you're talking about the _throbber_. YES, that was the w

Re: [Freevo-devel] Skin Demonstration

2008-07-23 Thread Jason Tackaberry
Dirk Meyer wrote on 23/07/08 02:18 PM: > Maybe, but maybe BusyIndicator is even better because we do not care > if it is a carousel or something looking more like Knight Rider > (e.g. Windows XP start). Ahhh, you're talking about the _throbber_. A carousel is more of an interactive element. http

Re: [Freevo-devel] Skin Demonstration

2008-07-23 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > Dirk Meyer wrote on 23/07/08 02:04 PM: >> Yes. Isn't spinner the term Rails people use? > > Unfortunately naming, if you ask me. In a UI context I think spinner is > more often used to indicate the up/down arrows that are sometimes beside > text inputs that accept numeric

Re: [Freevo-devel] Skin Demonstration

2008-07-23 Thread Jason Tackaberry
Dirk Meyer wrote on 23/07/08 02:04 PM: > Yes. Isn't spinner the term Rails people use? Unfortunately naming, if you ask me. In a UI context I think spinner is more often used to indicate the up/down arrows that are sometimes beside text inputs that accept numeric values. http://www.osc.edu/ar

Re: [Freevo-devel] Planning to write a button widget for candy

2008-07-23 Thread Jason Tackaberry
Dirk Meyer wrote on 23/07/08 01:34 PM: > Everytime I read something like this (also in my code) I do not like > that fact that you have to use height for rectangle and a font size > for the label. I guess label should also have a height and calculate > the font size based on it. I will think about

Re: [Freevo-devel] Skin Demonstration

2008-07-23 Thread Dirk Meyer
Jason Tackaberry wrote: > Dirk Meyer wrote on 23/07/08 01:47 PM: >> 1. kaa.candy needs a spinner. It is refreshing that yours look >>different than the spinner you find in most web applications. > > Spinner? Do you mean the carousel? Yes. Isn't spinner the term Rails people use? http://www.ob

Re: [Freevo-devel] Planning to write a button widget for candy

2008-07-23 Thread Dirk Meyer
"Chandan Pitta" wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Everytime I read something like this (also in my code) I do not like >> that fact that you have to use height for rectangle and a font size >> for the label. I guess label should also have a height a

Re: [Freevo-devel] Skin Demonstration

2008-07-23 Thread Jason Tackaberry
Dirk Meyer wrote on 23/07/08 01:47 PM: > 1. kaa.candy needs a spinner. It is refreshing that yours look >different than the spinner you find in most web applications. Spinner? Do you mean the carousel? - This SF.Net emai

Re: [Freevo-devel] Planning to write a button widget for candy

2008-07-23 Thread Chandan Pitta
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Chandan Pitta" wrote: > > I am planning to write a button widget, but I need your advise before I > > start. So my plan is to create a button widget which has an "active > > background" widget and an "inactive background" w

Re: [Freevo-devel] Skin Demonstration

2008-07-23 Thread Dirk Meyer
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There's a few months, you ask me to design a skin for Freevo2. > I've began the last week, and here is the first previous of the main menu: > http://atlantice.free.fr/freevo2-0.1.swf That looks very nice. Three things come to my mind. 1. kaa.candy needs a spinner.

Re: [Freevo-devel] Planning to write a button widget for candy

2008-07-23 Thread Dirk Meyer
"Chandan Pitta" wrote: > I am planning to write a button widget, but I need your advise before I > start. So my plan is to create a button widget which has an "active > background" widget and an "inactive background" widget and another widget > that becomes the label of the button. Cool. Let's ma

[Freevo-devel] Planning to write a button widget for candy

2008-07-23 Thread Chandan Pitta
I am planning to write a button widget, but I need your advise before I start. So my plan is to create a button widget which has an "active background" widget and an "inactive background" widget and another widget that becomes the label of the button. Example (I just typed this in the email so some

Re: [Freevo-devel] How to add an image to candy

2008-07-23 Thread Hans Meine
Am Dienstag, 22. Juli 2008 18:22:05 schrieb Dan Sully: > * Dirk Meyer shaped the electrons to say... > > >"Chandan Pitta" wrote: > >> Sorry for hijacking this thread again, but I found out that the setup.py > >> in kaa does not install candy by default. Was that intentional? > > > >Yes, because kaa

[Freevo-devel] Skin Demonstration

2008-07-23 Thread cinpou
Hello! There's a few months, you ask me to design a skin for Freevo2. I've began the last week, and here is the first previous of the main menu: http://atlantice.free.fr/freevo2-0.1.swf I'll create a full Gui with flash. Actually, you can : press the "Down" key to scroll the menu press the "L