[Development] Idea: add transition capabilities to QML TextInput

[Mark]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Alan Alpert <416365416c at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The idea for this came from ListView. In a ListView you can define a
>> "add: Transition" and "delete: Transition" (among others).
>>
>> With a TextInput the text itself is quite "static" as in there isn't
>> much to animate there or play with. It's just adding text (typing) or
>> removing text (backspace/delete) and that's it. The thing i'd like to
>> do in QML is have some animations when text is added or deleted.
>>
>> The kind of animation i think of are:
>> for deleting: the deleted text drops out of the TextInput with some
>> animation or shader fun.
>> for adding: the added text smoothly fades+slides in
>>
>> The animation part should obviously be left to the app creator. If the
>> Qt devs could provide transition capabilities just like ListView has
>> then it's perfect for me.
>>
>> So, would it be possible to implement this in QtQuick 2.1 (or whatever
>> the next version is going to be)?
>
> The next version would indeed be QtQuick 2.1. But it's better not to
> think about specific versions when looking at new features, if the
> feature is valid then it will be integrated as soon as it is ready. I
> doubt this feature would be ready by QtQuick 2.1, but that depends on
> the implementation complexity.
>
>> Right now this can already be done though in a very crude manner. By
>> making a own "TextInput" that uses a ListView, a ListModel and a bunch
>> of small Text elements. But that will obviously bring in a range of
>> difficulties that are already handles in ThextInput just fine.
>
> Generally suggestions for specific API additions should go to
> bugreports. I've filed this one for you,
> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-28810, and put my
> response there.
>
> The dev list is more for questions about how to implement features, or
> to discuss the shape of APIs for fulfilling more generic use cases.
> But I understand the line between the dev list and bugreports isn't
> clearly defined, so I could be a little overzealous here.
>
> --
> Alan Alpert

Yeah true. I wasn't sure where to post it. In interest, dev or only to
the bug tracker.. Since it is an "idea" where i was just wondering how
others think about it. Anyway, lets discuss it further in the bug
tracker then. Added a comment :)