[Marble-devel] Some GraphicsItem API thoughts

[Torsten Rahn]

Technically that looks good to me. 
The only problem I see is that this could take quite some more time to 
implement. But if you're motivated and think you can handle it then that's no 
problem of course :-)

Torsten

Am Freitag 24 Juli 2009 11:26:56 schrieb Bastian Holst:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to add some parent, child and layout features to
> MarbleGraphicsItems. I attached a simple example on how to use this API.
>
> This approach is in some way different to the approach I already discussed
> with Torsten, so I write this e-mail to the mailing list to get your
> opinion. My approach provides an really fast way to display things on a
> Screen-/Geo- Item.
> I would suggest LabelItem being a direct child of ScreenGraphicsItem. It
> paints simple text on a transparent background. The background is done by a
> FrameItem (which is itself a child of ScreenGraphicsItem). This paints a
> frame as it is known from the AbstractFloatItems.
>
> The AbstractFloatItems are also children of FrameItems. They can as a
> result paint directly on the screen of use layouts too.
>
> If you have problems understanding the approach, I'll send an e-mail with
> my current patch in the afternoon (CEST), which has FrameItem and the
> AbstractFloatItem based on this implemented.
>
> Bastian