After talking with @eunue I realised that the way I'd first
implemented the box/grid "pack" API was simply too complicated.
I had tried to make it possible to change the layout function
at runtime, like good old evas box, but since there are no function
pointers in EO the final design was really convoluted.
If someone really needs to change the layout of a box at runtime,
just create your own subclass, or unpack all items and repack them
in a new box.
Note: there are still some issues with the layout params & flow
Before this commit, function overrides were explicit. That is, you'd
have to explicitly state you were overriding a function instead of
creating a new one. This made the code a tad more complex, and was also
a bit more annoying to use. This commit removes this extra piece of
information.
This means we now store much less information per function, that will
let us further optimise out structures in the future.
It has been discussed on the ML (thread: "[RFC] rename efl_self") and
IRC, and has been decided we should rename it to this in order to avoid
confusion with the already established meaning of self which is very
similar to what we were using it for, but didn't have complete overlap.
Kudos to Marcel Hollerbach for initiating the discussion and
fighting for it until he convinced a significant mass. :)
This commit breaks API, and depending on compiler potentially ABI.
@feature
This is a (minor) API & ABI break in Eo.h!
I say minor as eo_override shouldn't be used yet (EO is unstable
and this patch includes all the use cases in EFL).
I'm not very happy about the new form of the macro, but it avoids
two things:
- passing in a struct (valid in C, but never used in EFL)
- using a GCC construct to create structs on the fly
It was inspired by the event array define, but I don't think
we need the runtime memcpy here.
See also:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Compound-Literals.html
This allows apps to set the objects min size with hint_min,
while letting the rest of EFL define the minimum size with
rstricted_min.
I don't like the property names much...
Previously events used to use class name as a prefix and ignored eo_prefix
when specified. This is no longer the case. Events follow eo_prefix by default
now. In order to get around this for classes where this is undesirable, a new
field event_prefix was added which takes priority over eo_prefix. If neither
is specified, class name is used like previously.
@feature
This removes Efl.Pack_Named which had a terrible name,
removes Elm.Container which should have been renamed
Efl.Ui.Container anyway, and introduces an interface
Efl.Container instead.
The hierarchy tree is now changed as objects don't inherit
from Efl.Container (it's an interface, not a regular class)
but only implement it. Obviously it is very easy to
reintroduce an Efl.Ui.Container parent class if we need it,
but I guess it should have some actual logic. It's basically
part of what Elm.Widget already does.
Some function names have been modified to look better in C
with the efl_content prefix.
@feature
- Children are now contents
- Efl.Pack_Layout is now a separate class and
merges Pack_Engine.
- Removed dumb class Efl.Pack_Item
- Updated docs
- Added pack_ or grid_ prefixes to some methods
Untested yet. Will need to add the common 3 classes:
- standard
- homogenous
- homogenous max_size
And then implement a true custom layout function, that
respects weights in a certain manner (need to define it
clearly).
This shows how to implement a layout function, with the
required Eo class boilerplate (note: could probably be
simpler with the appropriate macros, or a better solution
to create classes on the fly in C).
The layout function itself is awful, but shows that "it works".
This reuses the Evas.Box code, since we are still using the
box internally. The flow layout function is far from perfect
(it works well only with items of same height).
This shows how to use specific layouts provided by EFL.