I've used border images before with regular qt. I was hoping for something much more structured that could refer to inner elements for manipulation and animation. Doing things like adding gloss is way easier in SVG.
-J On Jul 13, 2010, at 4:40 AM, Ivan De Marino <ivan.de.mar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Small advice: PNG + the BorderImage QML element are your best friends ;) > > I'm building good-looking UIs using this tandem and works good and fast. > Of course, the designer has to understand the BorderImage Element qualities > and limits, but it shouldn't take much. > > On 13 July 2010 01:40, <warwick.alli...@nokia.com> wrote: > > Is there any way to integrate SVGs with QML, in that you can bridge > > into the artwork via id or object name and thus use SVG as templates and > > artwork? > > The only support for SVG in QML is that it will load a static SVG image > (rendering it once unless you modify the Image sourceSize dynamically). > > The reason for this is that SVG is far too slow on devices, at least as > currently bound in Qt (it goes via QPainter, for example). > > For example, an SVG consisting of just 3 ellipses is more than 10 times > slower to render than painting a pixmap. We can't see that it is reasonable > to trade such performance penalty for any visual appeal that SVG could bring > over static pixmaps. > > It seems that SVG is fine as a source image format, but not really practical > on devices as the runtime format. > > > A slightly easier, but not as awesome step would have a XML->QML > > converter... > > Are there any plans along these lines? > > None that I'm aware of. > > -- > Warwick > > _______________________________________________ > Qt-qml mailing list > Qt-qml@trolltech.com > http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-qml > > > > -- > Ivan De Marino | Software Engineer | France Telecom R&D UK - Orange Labs > w. +44 20 8849 5806 | m. +44 7515 955 861 | m. +44 7974 156 216 > ivan[dot]demarino[at]orange-ftgroup.com | > ivan[dot]de[dot]marino[at]gmail[dot]com > www.detronizator.org | www.linkedin.com/in/ivandemarino
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