[Development] text component seem too weight

[Jiang Jiang]

Hi Liang,

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:16 AM, liang <sd.foolegg at gmail.com> wrote:
> I read the source, every text component has a QTextDocument object,
> and it support full-function document layout, It seem too weight for a
> text component.
>
> for most time, I just use text component with one-line (or one-word),
> like text-label in a video game, It is very simple, and will be made a
> mass of instance, every component has a QTextDocument let me feel
> serious :[
>
> so, a more light-weight text component seem be fine for some user like
> me, any one interest about it?
>
> ps: I has tried to write this component for my usage, but I want use
> distence-field, It must use private api, no document and hard to
> write, any kindly advice? :P

The Text element only uses QTextDocument when its content contains
rich text, otherwise it uses distance-fields based QQuickTextNode to
handle plain text. I believe that's what you wanted.

There is a plan to open QQuickTextNode API for public, but I don't
know about the details.

- Jiang