Re: up to date learning resources

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi;

On 5 June 2015 at 04:30, Chris Bare <chris bare gmail com> wrote:
> I'm trying to learn vala and clutter. Where is the best place to find up to
> date examples and documentation?

Not really sure for Vala; for C you can use the examples in the
Clutter repository and the cookbook — even if the latter isn't
completely up to date.

> I found one example with this comment:
>     // note: the Clutter.Texture API is deprecrated, but the API that
>     // replaced it is very cumbersome, so we just stick with
>     // Clutter.Texture
>
> But I don't know what the new API is.

https://developer.gnome.org/clutter/stable/ClutterImage.html

It's not really any more cumbersome: you need to use GdkPixbuf to load
the image data from disk, resource, or memory; then you can use the
ClutterImage API to load the data.

Less convenient that ClutterTexture "one-method-to-do-everything"?
Possibly. Better at error handling, and more flexible? Definitely.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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