Review Request: an overlay effect element for framesvg

[Nuno Pinheiro]

A Monday 12 January 2009 22:55:11, Aaron J. Seigo escreveu:
> On Monday 12 January 2009, Marco Martin wrote:
> > if the possible positions are not that much (lets say something like on
> > the 4 corners) maybe using a single pixmap for caching would still be
> > possible? or maybe just if the position is consistent across instances
> > the impact on cache would still be acceptable hmm
>
> as long as this is cool with Pinheiro and his artistic vision, a limited #
> of positions us the best way to go imho. whether that's 4, 6 or 10 probably
> doesn't matter too much.
>
yeap a couple of difrent ones is prefetly fine 10 should be prefectly enough i 
hoppe (this is more of an experience thing does it look difrent from the 
others)
> once its in, we can play with tweaking the parameters around.
>
> > for the randomness: i would say still indicize in the cache for the
> > applet name but attach it to random numbers that controls the actual
> > positioning. the correspondence saved in a config file? like the one for
> > element rects?
>
> another approach is to use a single initially random seed and then just use
> that always. a random sequence is predictable if you know the first seed ;)
> or use that and a combination of the applet id and re-seed the generator
> each time. then we have only two variables max per widget, one of which is
> shared amongst all the widgets, so really only N+1 variables in total with
> the N variables already known to us via applet->id(). by reseeding with an
> initially random number + the id we get a constant set of "random" settings
> even when widgets are deleted.
>
> the random seed could be generated once and stored in corona->config() in
> the top-level, in [General], in [Corona] or in [Containments].
>
> that means one more int read out of a file we already parse anyways.
>
> > (hmm the thing is becoming complex...)
>
> hehe.. KISS!
yes dont want to make you guys generate extra complexyty that is not needed. 
:)
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