[Development] Another method of registering QML types

[Alan Alpert]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Thiago Macieira
<thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> On quinta-feira, 8 de novembro de 2012 09.57.05, Alan Alpert wrote:
>> qmlRegisterType(const char* url, const char *uri, int versionMajor,
>> int versionMinor, const char *qmlName).
> [...]
>
>> This would allow for a platform component import which looks like this:
>> if(platform=="desktoplinux")
>>     qmlRegisterType("/usr/share/desktop/components/Button.qml", uri,
>> 2, 0, "Button");
>> else if (platform=="meego")
>>     qmlRegisterType("/usr/share/meego/components/Button.qml", uri, 2,
>> 0, "Button");
>
> Please be careful with your uses of URL. You named the parameter "url" but
> then you passed what looks like a path name. It's definitely not an absolute
> URL, but it could be a relative one.
>
> If the API accepts a relative URL, you need to define what it's relative to.
> For example, it's relative to the $PWD at the time of the invocation of the
> function. Or, another suggestion, is that it's relative to $PWD at the moment
> of use.
>
> My recommendation is that you do not allow relative URLs. Require them to be
> absolute, in which case you'll need the "file:///" prefix.

The original thought was that the URL/path should be resolved the same
as the URLs given to QQmlComponent or QQuickView. This means it would
be relative to $PWD at the time the QUrl is constructed - I should
probably change the type to QUrl then :) .

--
Alan Alpert