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Subject: Re: Thoughts on FS#12124 - drawing the lists with the skin engine

Re: Thoughts on FS#12124 - drawing the lists with the skin engine

From: Nils Wallménius <nils.wallmenius_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 11:53:48 +0200

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Jonathan Gordon <jdgordy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm hoping to have this patch in git ( :) ) before the next release so
> I want to get some feedback on how this patch works and what more
> needs to be done.
>
> This patch allows themers to draw the all the lists with the skin
> engine instead of using the inbuilt standard list (and with some magic
> you can draw different lists with different skins, or even with the
> inbuilt code.)
> Basically how it works is you define a set of viewports (all with a
> single label) which will be drawn once for each list item, these are
> all drawn as children in a specified rectangle.
>
> example from the tracker:
>
> =======%========
> %Lb(a,100,20)                  # This says to draw viewports labeled
> 'a' in a rectangle 100wide x 20 high
> %Vi(-,0,0,-,-35,1)              # Setup the UI viewport, nothing special here
> %Vl(a,5,5,-,12,1)              # Setup the viewport to draw for each
> item, x,y,width,height here are relative to the position of the
> rectangle it is drawn in.
> %?Lc<%>%>%>>%ac%LT # Stuff to actually draw, in this case it is the
> list text centered and show ">>" if it is the current selection.
> =======%========
>
> Now, because the same viewports are drawn more than once per screen
> currently no scrolling works. I'm going to fix this by drawing the
> selected item Last (so the viewport doesn't move again) and by
> allowing you to specify a different viewport label to draw for the
> selected item *which doesn't need to have the same rectangle size*
> (which should make some nice themes).
>

Does it work with the "Screen Scrolls Out of View" setting which can
cause all items in view to scroll?

Nils
Received on 2011-07-04

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