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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Thoughts on FS#12124 - drawing the lists with the skin engineRe: 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 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |