At Tuesday 25 November 2014 10:23:37 Marco Martin wrote: > On Sunday 16 November 2014, Evgeniy Alekseev wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Some time ago I've started a porting of my plasmoids and dataengines to > > the > > newest Plasma and found some problems with it. I've ported a DataEngine > > w\o > > any problem, but I have issues about a Plasmoid. I've read API reference > > and look at examples from plasma-next and didn't find solutions. > > > > First of all I want say that I don't plan to use QML/JS now and plan to > > develop of my plasmoids in pure C++. Firstly it is related to other > > project > > in Plasma5 pure C++ plasmoids are not possible anymore, the c++ api was for > QGraphicsView (since plasma was based on top of it) plasma5 is based on top > of scene graph, so the only way to write an UI is trough QML. > You can still use C++ in a dataengine or a private QML import. > > > parts which is in C++/Qt and I don't want to use additional languages w\o > > any special necessity. Also as far as I understand the core plasmoid part > > (on which I have issue too) still shoul be written in C++. Also I try to > > avoid using deprecated functions. > > > > My questions are: > > > > 1. Is there any alternative to Plasma::PopupApplet? If there is not, is > > there a plan to implement it? > > all applets are popupapplets now. > see > http://notmart.org/blog/2014/02/making-plasmoids-qml-api-better/ > > especially the section "Compact and full representations" > > > 2. Is there a possibility to paint complex UI w\o using QML (in C++ code)? > > For example, I didn't find old Applet::setLayout() and > > PopupApplet::setWidget() methods. > > no, only QML is allowed, and subclassing Applet doesn't really work anymore. > If you have a complex QWidget ui in theory you could still have it by > implementing it in a QML import, then making ti show from a slot invoked by > qml. > > > 3. How can I connect DataEngine to my Plasmoid? The old method which I > > used > > was dataEnigne(), some new applets use this method too, but it doesn't > > exist in the newest Plasma headers. Some new widgets such as nm-applet use > > Plasma::DataEngineManager::self()->engine() constuction, but > > Plasma::DataEngineManager class doesn't exist in the Plasma too =( > > see the QML bindings: > https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma2/QML2/API#Data_Engines
Thank you for the answer and the links! Seems all my questions are QML porting retaled, so I'll look on it and hope will port own KDE stuff successfully =) Thank you again. -- Sincerely yours, Evgeniy Alekseev email: darkarca...@mail.ru ICQ: 407-398-235 Jabber: arca...@jabber.ru
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
_______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
