Hi, I'm moving a layout discussion to this mailing list.
I've pushed an initial version of a linear layout element in the following branch: http://qt.gitorious.org/~arezende/qt-components/arezende-desktop/commits/layouts It basically provides more powerful layout management than Row/Column elements, since it handles item stretching, individual item spacing, minimum/preferred/maximum size policies. These are mandatory features in most of the desktop applications and I think they should be addressed in a proper manner. Currently, we end up simulating such features using a lot of anchors and property binds that increases the code size and impacts in performance. The current implementation provides a RowLayout and a ColumnLayout element. Follows an example: RowLayout { spacing: 10 Item { Layout.spacing: 6 Layout.minimumWidth: 100 } Item { Layout.maximumWidth: 300 Layout.stretchFactor: 2.0 } } There are some features in the TODO list, like accepting different size policies and some improvements in the layout behavior. I would like to get a feedback about this API, suggestions or any extra feature that would make sense to add. Regarding QtQuick2, I would like to bring to discussion if such support should be added for the Row, Column and Grid elements. That would provide a better integration with QtCreator. As a suggestion, we could handle more complex use cases like the following: Row { spacing: 10 Item { Row.spacing: 5 Row.sizePolicy: Row.Fixed } Item { Row.maximumWidth: 300 Row.stretchFactor: 2.0 Row.sizePolicy: Row.Expanding } } If one wants to use the default Row/Column features, no attached properties would be needed. The same would be applied for Grid, like span support. Cheers, Adriano _______________________________________________ Qt-qml mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-qml
