I'm doing my first gnome-shell extension (gnome shell 41.3) and I seem to encounter the most common problems, finding the right manual for that...
What I try to achive is...
What I already acomplished is...
What I am missing is...
I did 1.5 days of duckduckgoing into it but, again, I'm running in circles with not a single Idea on how to proceed...
Could anyone point me into the correct direction, plz...???
Pseudo Code goes something like this
const {St, GLib} = imports.gi;
var area = new St.DrawingArea({
style_class : 'bg-color',
reactive : true,
can_focus : true,
track_hover : true,
width: myWidth,
height: myHeight
});
area.connect('repaint', (area) => drawMyStuff(area));
Main.layoutManager.addChrome(area, {
affectsInputRegion : false,
affectsStruts : false,
trackFullscreen : false,
});
timeout = GLib.timeout_add(0, 500, () => {
this.area.queue_repaint();
return true;
});
function drawMyStuff(area) {
let cr = area.get_context();
cr.translate(area.width / 2, area.height / 2);
cr.scale(area.width / 2, area.height / 2);
cr.setSourceRGBA (1, 1, 1, 1);
cr.arc(0.0, 0.0, 1.0 - 0.05, 0, 2 * Math.PI);
cr.fill();
/*
* Would like to print some text here but obviously I am to stupid to do so...
* Help me StackExchangeCommunity, you're my only hope...
*
* Obviously it is not that easy:
* cr.setSourceRGBA (1, 0, 0, 1);
* cr.write(0.0, 0.0, "Not a moon")
* cr.fill();
*
*/
cr.$dispose();
return true;
}
It's kinda hard to find out and I had no luck finding any documentation on that but after digging into the GJS Code here (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/-/blob/HEAD/modules/cairo-context.cpp) I was able to understand a lot more on how to do cairo stuff like this (https://www.cairographics.org/manual/) from GJS...
The solution for my question stated above goes like this:
function drawMyStuff(area) {
let cr = area.get_context();
cr.translate(area.width / 2, area.height / 2);
cr.scale(area.width / 2, area.height / 2);
cr.setSourceRGBA (1, 1, 1, 1);
cr.arc(0.0, 0.0, 1.0 - 0.05, 0, 2 * Math.PI);
cr.fill();
/*
* Thank me, I'm my only hope...
*
* Obviously it is that easy:
*
*/
cr.moveTo(-0.5,-0.5);
cr.setSourceRGBA (1, 0, 0, 1);
cr.setFontSize(0.125);
cr.showText('No Moon');
cr.$dispose();
return true;
}