[poppler] Drawing styledForm Widgets

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dimarts, 11 d'octubre de 2011, Carlos Garcia Campos vàreu escriure:
> Excerpts from Albert Astals Cid's message of mar oct 11 14:07:07 +0200 2011:
> > A Dilluns, 10 d'octubre de 2011, jose.aliste at gmail.com vàreu escriure:
> > > Hi list,
> > > 
> > > there is idea, why not adding some support to draw style form
> > > widgets
> > > to poppler. I know that poppler is already doing that when
> > > rendering,
> > > but the idea would be to have a method that given a form widget,
> > > either renders the contents of the widget for you with the correct
> > > style, or some sort of struct with all the style information of the
> > > corresponding constructed AP stream, so the frontends can use this
> > > information to mimic poppler's rendering to render the widgets
> > > themselves. In order for the first option to work, this rendering
> > > should not depend on reparsing otherwise it would too slow
> > > (Basically,
> > > I consider that we could construct the AP stream and then using this
> > > stream with some Gfx magic it should be possible to render the
> > > widgets
> > > value without reparsing and thus being fast enough to put this
> > > method
> > > in a widget-rendering callback)
> > 
> > As I understand what you want is apps no longer "embedding" "real"
> > widgets on top of the forms but the apps drawing the forms themselves
> > based on info given by poppler?
> > 
> > I am not sure this is going to be easy to do, since using "real" widgets
> > gives you lots of functionality for free (e.g: copy/paste,
> > keyboard/mouse handling, etc) and if we do what you say I understand we
> > have to stop using "real" widgets and do all this stuff in the final
> > app which will be lots of work. Of course that does not mean that we
> > could still provide the option to have it and not make it mandatory.
> > 
> > Or did I totally misunderstand what you meant?
> 
> No, I think he means drawing current forms with the same style as the
> widgets, using the current theme, but using real widgets for the
> interactivity with the user. I don't know how it's done in okular, but
> in Evince, we only use a real widget when the user clicks on a form,
> and it's destroyed when the form is edited. This way we don't need to
> keep widgets in the view all the time if they are not used. For some
> forms like check and radio buttons we don't even use real
> widgets. This way if you draw a choice widget exactly the same a
> GtkComboBox would be, when you click on the form to edit it, ideally you
> wouldn't even notice there wasn't a real widget.

Ah, so instead of trying to render the real widgets like poppler renders the 
forms you mean trying to make poppler render like the "top level" application-
widget is rendered.

This probably makes more sense but i am not still sure how "easy/feasible" 
that is.

Albert

> 
> José, is that the idea?
> 
> > Albert
> > 
> > > Greetings
> > > 
> > > José
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