[Development] Window{} API for QML

[Adriano Rezende]

IOW, something like:

import QtQuick 2.0 // or QtQuick.UI 2.0 (if it makes sense)

Window {

}

- Adriano

2011/11/21 Adriano Rezende <adriano.rezende at openbossa.org>:
> 2011/11/21 Alan Alpert <alan.alpert at nokia.com>:
>> On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:50:28 you wrote:
>>> 2011/11/21 Alan Alpert <alan.alpert at nokia.com>:
>>> > On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:26:44 ext Alan Alpert wrote:
>>> >> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:24:50 ext Alan Alpert wrote:
>>> >> > Window{ //Not inheriting QQuickItem, creates a new top level window.
>>> >> >
>>> >> >     property int x
>>> >> >     property int y
>>> >> >     property int width
>>> >> >     property int height
>>> >> >     property bool visible
>>> >> >     property Orientation requestedOrientation // { Portrait,
>>> >> > Landscape, Š }
>>> >> >
>>> >> > }
>>> >>
>>> >> http://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,9258 in qtdeclarative and
>>> >
>>> > Whoops, that should be http://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,9352 in
>>> > qtdeclarative.
>>>
>>> I think it's in a good shape for an initial API.
>>> Some missing features can be added later, like min/max size, modality and
>>> so on.
>>>
>>> Is the Window module really necessary. I think it's a bit redundant to
>>> have Window.Window { }.
>>
>> It's a lot redundant, I was just exaggerating it for the examples. Obviously
>> normal use will be merely
>>
>> import QtQuick.Window 2.0
>>
>> Window{
>> }
>>
>> But the ability to create new top-level windows sounds like the sort of thing
>> you might want to turn off in some cases (e.g. if you're writing an
>> application scriptable in QML). Making it a separate import makes it easier to
>> turn off later.
>
> Yes, I mean if QtQuick2 is designed to reduce memory footprint for
> non-ui applications it makes sense to keep UI components in a separate
> module. I'm just arguing that if the Window module will just contain
> the Window component, it wouldn't worth it to keep this component in a
> separate module, since there are other UI components much less useful
> like the Flipable and the Flow components.
>
> Br,
> Adriano
>