Re: [Interest] Guide me through the Qt offerings for GUIs

2021-04-25 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Interest
22/04/21 20:38, Konstantin Shegunov: On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 7:19 PM Giuseppe D'Angelo via Interest mailto:interest@qt-project.org>> wrote: You should create a C++ layer (call it a "presentation" layer) that sits between your (possibly non-Qt) business logic and the UI. That layer

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2021-04-25 Thread Roland Hughes
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Re: [Interest] Guide me through the Qt offerings for GUIs

2021-04-25 Thread André Pönitz
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 05:31:33PM +0100, Nuno Santos wrote: >For me, the major benefit of Qml is speed. Before using Qml I’ve done a >couple of years doing Qt Widgets. The glue code to make things work is a >big pain. Hi Nuno. This is an interesting statement. My personal experience

Re: [Interest] Guide me through the Qt offerings for GUIs

2021-04-25 Thread Roland Hughes
On 4/24/21 5:00 AM, Frank Mertens wrote: IMX6UL is just a marketing name. Look it up. "UL" stands for ultra-low. It has nothing in common with the IMX6 architecture. It is actually the first IMX7. It does not have a GPU and surely you can run it on a battery. Ask your hardware guys. They know.

Re: [Interest] Guide me through the Qt offerings for GUIs

2021-04-25 Thread Henry Skoglund
On 2021-04-25 13:56, André Pönitz wrote: ... Hi Nuno. This is an interesting statement. My personal experience is exactly the opposite: By using Qt Quick one is forced to use non-trivial amounts of glue code that is conceptually unnecessary in the QWidget case. As a concrete example: A while

Re: [Interest] Guide me through the Qt offerings for GUIs

2021-04-25 Thread Konstantin Shegunov
On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 2:21 PM Giuseppe D'Angelo via Interest < interest@qt-project.org> wrote: > 22/04/21 20:38, Konstantin Shegunov: > > Registering a struct/data class with the meta type system and/or > > marshaling it over QVariant, just so it can be visible in QML isn't > > that. Or things a

Re: [Interest] Guide me through the Qt offerings for GUIs

2021-04-25 Thread Ulf Hermann
One thing I noticed contributing to this effect is that it is apparently difficult to pass objects of "medium" complexity through the glue layer > Simple stuff like integers and strings are fine (enums already get interesting...), really complex stuff like QAbstractItemModels can be fine, but for

Re: [Interest] Guide me through the Qt offerings for GUIs

2021-04-25 Thread André Pönitz
On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 06:41:17PM +0200, Ulf Hermann wrote: > > One thing I noticed contributing to this effect is that it is apparently > > difficult to pass objects of "medium" complexity through the glue layer > > Simple stuff like integers and strings are fine (enums already get > > interesti

Re: [Interest] Guide me through the Qt offerings for GUIs

2021-04-25 Thread Ulf Hermann
You know that I do appreciate your work to make QML easier to use. However, I am still not convinced that a custom language (especially one that does not fit _that_ seamlessly to C++) is needed at all. Well, that's the main point then. Any language that does the object composition in a simpler