Re: [E-devel] C API => Unified API

Am 28.06.21 um 17:52 schrieb Cedric Bail:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sunday, June 27th, 2021 at 12:55 PM, Andreas Volz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I often don't find a Unified API equivalent in the new Unified API.
>> Sure, the easy and obvious ones no problem. But sometimes the design
>> seems to be changed a lot. Is there a general advice?
>>
> 
>> For example I use edje_object_part_external_param_*() much in my
>> application. I thought it might be an equivalent in Efl.Ui.Layout_Part
>> but I don't see an obvious function.
>>
> 
>> So any hints in general or this special case?
> 
> Yes, I think this would be part of the efl_part API. Which should be something
> like:
>   efl::eo::downcast<efl::Text>(layout.part("title")).text_set("hello");
> 
> or in C:
>   efl_text_set(efl_part(layout, "title"), "hello");
> 
> The efl_part object returned is an Eo object that can only be used for one call. If
> you want to use it for more than that you need to increase its ref counting. Something
> like that:
>   Eo *part = efl_ref(efl_part(layout, "title"));
>   efl_text_set(part, "hello");
>   ...
>   efl_unref(part);

Hm, I'd assume this works for text objects. But with the external API[1] 
you could get/set also int/bool data if you know the object supports it 
without detail information of what UI type is the object. With the C API 
this is possible.

[1] 
https://docs.enlightenment.org/api/release/edje-1.0.1-doc/doc/html/edje__external_8c.html#ac8f8c0c632cc00864e319741e606ece0

regards
Amdreas