Help on some Plasma methods

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

Talking about the Digital Clock, I'm curious how that gradient text will work like with QML - or can we simply apply a gradient to Text in Qml2? If so that would make that super easy compared to the way it's currently done.

"Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo at kde.org> schrieb:

>On Friday, July 12, 2013 19:03:54 Leonardo Giordani wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm a little puzzled by the following methods I see implemented in
>> digital-clock:
>> 
>> * paintInterface()
>> * constraintsEvent()
>
>You do not want to use either of these things. You should be using QML for new 
>development.
>
>In any case .. here’s the answers:
>
>paintInterface is the method in which the plasmoid gets the chance to paint 
>directly to the canvas. in qml this just doesn’t ever happen.
>
>constraintsEvent: this is called when the form factor, screen location, 
>immutability, etc changes 
>
>again, in QML you don’t need to deal with this as they are properties you can 
>bind to from the global plasmoid object
>
>so short story: use qml. :)
>
>-- 
>Aaron J. Seigo
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