[Development] QAction-like API for QML

[Stephen Kelly]

On Monday, December 17, 2012 01:11:55 Bache-Wiig Jens wrote:
> >> How about having ToolBar.addAction() for convenience? It is exactly what
> >> we do for widgets.> 
> > Widgets is a toolkit for an imperative language. Looping over lists
> > and adding things individually is acceptable there. In a declarative
> > language it is really not the right way to go. Even if you don't want
> > to implement menus with ActionGroup, I'd still recommend that you have
> > something like it (which can take a list of Action/QAction) so that
> > you only need to list all the actions once, where-ever that may be,
> > and then add them to other places en masse.
> 
> Agreed. But we can provide convenience even if we treat tool bars as a
> visual item. For instance, you would have to do this to follow the model
> approach of actions:
> 
> RowLayout { Repeater { model: myActions ; ToolButton { action: modelData} }
> }}
> 
> Granted, a bit too verbose. However with a little bit of convenience, we can
> for instance reduce this to just:  ActionRowLayout { model: myActions }

This looks about right to me.

Thanks,

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