Moppel
1st November 2015, 22:01
Hi,
after having used an application called CuteCom (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/CuteCom?content=14332) for about half a year I've been missing a certain feature.
I needed some session support (a bit similar to the sessions found in Kate). The first step I made was to add very basic session support via a command line switch. Since command line argument parsing comes for free by the command line parser (by dfaure?) within Qt5 I thought it's a good idea to port this application to Qt5 along the way. (The port can be found on GitHub, just ask if interessted)
After having done this, I thought I could brush up my Qt programming a bit and find out what QML had in store for me.
After a few hours of tinkering and trying to more or less rebuild the UI from the above application I'm now wondering if that's the best approach. E.g. I have found no way of using a scrollbar to one of the textviews which I regard as necessary. (I'll put my proof of concept UI on GitHub within the next few days)
The nice thing I managed to add though is a "sliding in from above" control panel, making the controls getting out of the way when not needed.
Before I follow this route further I thought I better ask:
Is it advicable to implement the UI using Qt Quick for a pure desktop application like this? Or should I rather be using the traditional QWidget approach? Being intrigued by the "sliding in from top control panel" I would have to find out how to implement that using widgets though....
Thankful for advice!
after having used an application called CuteCom (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/CuteCom?content=14332) for about half a year I've been missing a certain feature.
I needed some session support (a bit similar to the sessions found in Kate). The first step I made was to add very basic session support via a command line switch. Since command line argument parsing comes for free by the command line parser (by dfaure?) within Qt5 I thought it's a good idea to port this application to Qt5 along the way. (The port can be found on GitHub, just ask if interessted)
After having done this, I thought I could brush up my Qt programming a bit and find out what QML had in store for me.
After a few hours of tinkering and trying to more or less rebuild the UI from the above application I'm now wondering if that's the best approach. E.g. I have found no way of using a scrollbar to one of the textviews which I regard as necessary. (I'll put my proof of concept UI on GitHub within the next few days)
The nice thing I managed to add though is a "sliding in from above" control panel, making the controls getting out of the way when not needed.
Before I follow this route further I thought I better ask:
Is it advicable to implement the UI using Qt Quick for a pure desktop application like this? Or should I rather be using the traditional QWidget approach? Being intrigued by the "sliding in from top control panel" I would have to find out how to implement that using widgets though....
Thankful for advice!