[Development] Do QtQuick.Layouts depend on QtQuick.Controls?

Alejandro Exojo suy at badopi.org
Tue Dec 9 22:25:25 CET 2014


El Tuesday 09 December 2014, Dmitry Volosnykh escribió:
> Hi!
> 
> "What's New in Qt 5" documentation article
> (http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qt5-intro.html) under
> "Designing UI Made Simpler" section introduces Qt Quick Controls and
> Qt Quick Layouts modules at once. As far as I can see there is no
> clear evidence that Layouts may be used separately from Controls. The
> only pros I am aware of are "Qt Quick Layouts Overview" article
> (http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qtquicklayouts-overview.html) and my
> personal similar experience with desktop Qt 5.

Those are independent.
 
> The question arised from the situation when I faced the absence of
> Layouts on embedded Linux box with custom build of Qt 5 by my collegue
> who states that it was default build for that platform. We don't need
> Controls there sicne all the UI is handcrafted by our team, but we
> would really like to have Layouts available because it really
> simplifies UI composition!

The plugins are different, but the git repository where the source is present 
is the same. You have to build the qtquickcontrols repository, or you will 
miss the layouts.

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