Re: [SailfishDevel] Getting simple XML to show on the emulator

2015-05-14 Thread Jani Nuutinen
Thank You Andrey. That too did work some wonders. At this point these little things really are wonders to me :) Basically now I have a nicely structured listing that is fetching the wanted data from an Internet source. By using spacing I could make the listing more readable if needed. So learne

Re: [SailfishDevel] Getting simple XML to show on the emulator

2015-05-13 Thread Andrey Kozhevnikov
You should set elements position yourself. Elements itself have no idea where each should be placed and drawing at (0,0) position by default. Good idea will be to use Column as main element and place your text inside it. So, it should be something like: delegate: BackgroundItem{

Re: [SailfishDevel] Getting simple XML to show on the emulator

2015-05-13 Thread Jani Nuutinen
Thank you for the generous insights gents. While I'm still learning from ground up these simplest things with Qt delegate was the thing here to get some flesh on the bones (as in: getting something to show up on the emulator screen). The first code I used did work so I merely did expand on top of

Re: [SailfishDevel] Getting simple XML to show on the emulator

2015-05-13 Thread Michael Fuchs
Hi Jani, As somebody else wrote: JSON is the native data format for QML. I'm using XMLHttpRequest and JSON.parse() for my project. Maybe this is something for you. greets, Michael. On Tuesday 12 May 2015 22:58:16 Jani Nuutinen wrote: > I'm trying early on to familiarize myself with passing data

Re: [SailfishDevel] Getting simple XML to show on the emulator

2015-05-12 Thread helicalgear .
Hi, Is your first question "How you should do to display the data which are get from the XML" ? I think you should add "delegate" property and some codes to do it. import QtQuick 2.0 import Sailfish.Silica 1.0 import QtQuick.XmlListModel 2.0 Page{ id: root XmlListModel{ i

Re: [SailfishDevel] Getting simple XML to show on the emulator

2015-05-12 Thread richard grooff
In the SilicaListView add: delegate: Text { text: body} And the text will be shown   From: Andrey Kozhevnikov To: devel@lists.sailfishos.org Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 9:59 PM Subject: Re: [SailfishDevel] Getting simple XML to show on the emulator Using XML is not simplest for

Re: [SailfishDevel] Getting simple XML to show on the emulator

2015-05-12 Thread Jani Nuutinen
Hi Andrey and thanks for the quick reply! Certainly I might then look into using JSON. It remains to be seen if I'll be returning later on with a similar question but that time hand in hand with JSON :) Best regards On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Andrey Kozhevnikov wrote: > Using XML is

Re: [SailfishDevel] Getting simple XML to show on the emulator

2015-05-12 Thread Andrey Kozhevnikov
Using XML is not simplest for QML. Native data format for QML/JavaScript is JSON. 13.05.2015 00:58, Jani Nuutinen пишет: I'm trying early on to familiarize myself with passing data to the phone from the Internet and just for starters I chose to use a simple XML-file to see if I could make some

[SailfishDevel] Getting simple XML to show on the emulator

2015-05-12 Thread Jani Nuutinen
I'm trying early on to familiarize myself with passing data to the phone from the Internet and just for starters I chose to use a simple XML-file to see if I could make something out myself. I do not know if using XML from Internet source is the simplest or the smartest method, but trying to follow