[maemo-developers] HildonAnimationActor and button events

[From: Cornelius Hald]

It turned out to be sooooo much easier without HildonAnimationActor. I
was just totally on the wrong track regarding transparency, composition,
clutter, and all.

After spending one night with HildonRemoteTexture and one with
HildonAnimationActor. I'm happy to say that to create a transparent
overlay, you don't need them. Just create a new GtkWindow without
decorations and use the code that Vlad sent earlier to get it
transparent.

Well, looks like I'm still a noob :)

Thanks for all the help!
Conny


On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:52 +0200, Cornelius Hald wrote:
> I think I now know how to do it. Probably I don't even need the
> HildonAnimationActor. It should be possible only using cairo and argb
> colormap. I'll give it a try later and report back.
> 
> Cheers!
> Conny
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:12 +0200, Cornelius Hald wrote:
> > Hi and thanks for you answer :)
> > 
> > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:01 +0200, Piñeiro wrote:
> > > AFAIK, the real purpose of HildonAnimationActor is just what his name
> > > indicates, a way to introduce animations on the hildon applications
> > > with the help of the window manager, so in fact, it shouldn't be
> > > required the feature you want.
> > 
> > I could imagine many use cases where you want to click on something that
> > is animated. For example a free floating UI element which you want to
> > drag freely over the main window. Or which automatically moves away from
> > the cursor, etc...
> > 
> > > Why do you want to interact with this actor? What do you want to get?
> > 
> > I've written a free floating semi transparent button which allows you to
> > quit the fullscreen mode. It's supposed to behave exactly like in the
> > browser. Of course I have no idea how they implemented it, but my
> > implementation does work quite well already.
> > 
> > The only problem is, that if you click this button, not only the
> > fullscreen mode is toggled, but also the cursor is moved in the
> > underlaying widget.
> > 
> > Ideas how to implement that without the HildonAnimationActor are welcome
> > of course. I tried two other ways of realizing this button, but both
> > failed, so ATM the HildonAnimationActor is my best bet.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > Conny
> > 
> > 
> > 
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