[Development] QAction-like API for QML

[André Somers]

Op 20-12-2012 12:11, Shawn Rutledge schreef:
> So ultimately at that company all the abstract actions you would have 
> wanted to create would still have to be converted into gui-oriented 
> actions anyway, right? How would you avoid writing code to bridge or 
> augment them into actions which can be realized in the gui? Or did you 
> have completely non-gui use cases? Anyway maybe at such companies, the 
> non-gui action class would tend to have other properties which we 
> cannot predict in advance.

If there were such a thing as a QCoreAction/QTrigger, it would be a 
simple matter of creating the QAction based on that 
QCoreAction/QTrigger, setting some visual properties and using this 
action in toolbars, menus and whatnot. That's all. The code dealing with 
things like synchronizing the availability and state of the action with 
the backend would be taken care of using the QCoreAction, with no bridge 
code to write at all.

I have no completely non-GUI use cases I can come up with at this 
moment. However, it would be a useful piece of bridge code.

André