On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Alan Alpert <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The idea for this came from ListView. In a ListView you can define a >> "add: Transition" and "delete: Transition" (among others). >> >> With a TextInput the text itself is quite "static" as in there isn't >> much to animate there or play with. It's just adding text (typing) or >> removing text (backspace/delete) and that's it. The thing i'd like to >> do in QML is have some animations when text is added or deleted. >> >> The kind of animation i think of are: >> for deleting: the deleted text drops out of the TextInput with some >> animation or shader fun. >> for adding: the added text smoothly fades+slides in >> >> The animation part should obviously be left to the app creator. If the >> Qt devs could provide transition capabilities just like ListView has >> then it's perfect for me. >> >> So, would it be possible to implement this in QtQuick 2.1 (or whatever >> the next version is going to be)? > > The next version would indeed be QtQuick 2.1. But it's better not to > think about specific versions when looking at new features, if the > feature is valid then it will be integrated as soon as it is ready. I > doubt this feature would be ready by QtQuick 2.1, but that depends on > the implementation complexity. > >> Right now this can already be done though in a very crude manner. By >> making a own "TextInput" that uses a ListView, a ListModel and a bunch >> of small Text elements. But that will obviously bring in a range of >> difficulties that are already handles in ThextInput just fine. > > Generally suggestions for specific API additions should go to > bugreports. I've filed this one for you, > https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-28810, and put my > response there. > > The dev list is more for questions about how to implement features, or > to discuss the shape of APIs for fulfilling more generic use cases. > But I understand the line between the dev list and bugreports isn't > clearly defined, so I could be a little overzealous here. > > -- > Alan Alpert
Yeah true. I wasn't sure where to post it. In interest, dev or only to the bug tracker.. Since it is an "idea" where i was just wondering how others think about it. Anyway, lets discuss it further in the bug tracker then. Added a comment :) _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
