About Plasma's JavaScript API

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 21 January 2011, Samu Juvonen wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I've been trying to learn creating Plasmoids with JavaScript, but so far it
> seems to me that the API is wildly broken. I cannot even properly set a
> size for QSizeF or re-position a QRectF. The third problem is with

yup, there were problems indeed in the bindings.

there was a problem indeed for the move methods of rectangled, I've fixed them 
now.

> FrameSvgs. Whereas a PlasmaSvg image is rendered fine, FrameSvg goes
> completely bonkers.
> 
> I've tried rendering SVGs using different Plasma themes but it fails even
> with Oxygen and Air, so probably not due to broken theme.

the paint parameters works like ones of painter.drawPixmap
so you have:
void paintFrame(QPainter *painter, const QRectF &target,
                                    const QRectF &source = QRectF());
this is what you were using and is useful only if you want to draw only a 
portion of the frame (that's what is happening)
now, I've fixed the behviour to behave -exactly- like qpainter::drawPixmap in 
the case there is a single qrect paramenter (the second is facultative), that 
should give the intended results now.


void paintFrame(QPainter *painter, const QPointF &pos = QPointF(0, 0));
this in the one you need 99% of the times, it just paints the whole frame in 
the position you want



> My KDE version is 4.6 RC2 (on Arch Linux). I dunno if it works any better
> with the stable 4.5 release, since I don't have any machines I could test
> it with atm.
> 
> I created a simple example Plasmoid you can download here:
> http://sj87.hopto.org/buggy.tar.gz

the plasmoid now has a proper output and paints correctly.
both in trunk and 4.6 branch

Cheers,
Marco Martin