Re: [LAD] Phat and pyphat 0.4.1, help needed for future widgets.

Es geschah am Monday, 14. May 2007 09:16 als Loki Davison schrieb: What Thorsten tried to say is, that a .svg is usually* a static vector graphic. So when you just draw a .svg file in your GUI you just have a *dead* graphic, but at least a scalable one - in contrast to common pixmap based skins where you even get ugly artifacts just when trying to enlarge the pixmap. But in general you often also want to tweak parameters of the vector graphic at runtime by i.e. scaling only certain parts of the vector graphics, modifying colors or alpha (translucency) of certain parts of the vector graphic etc. So usually* you cannot do that with simply loading one single .svg file, or in other words there is always some coding involved to get dynamics into the vector graphics for your specific GUI application purpose. But that does NOT mean a vector graphic based approach for widgets is a bad solution or even not feasible. It just means you might have to realize some parts of the vector drawing directly in your code, but not in the classical form of "draw pixel at pos x,y", more like "draw circle / rectangle / Beziér curve .... with parameters foo ..... with 60% translucency ..... dashed border .... at pos x,y". So this is still on a higher, more abstract level, thus (usually) involves less coding effort and is especially easier / faster to create nice graphic results with. Of course doing all the vector graphics on code level is not a good idea, because often a good developer is not a good graphic artist and vice versa, and last but not least drawing graphics in a drawing application is far more faster than trying to "code" an image. But fortunately you don't have to do all vector graphics operations on code level. You could also i.e. simply load a normal .svg file as background graphic and do only few fancy dynamic vector graphics operations on code level. So IMO it would be a good idea to implement those proposed widgets using the vector graphics approach. CU Christian * ( the .svg format as defined by the w3c also allows to define animations [1] and interaction [2], but so far I don't know of any vector drawing application or vector graphics engine that supports that ... at least AFAIK) [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-SVG11-20030114/animate.html [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-SVG11-20030114/interact.html