[Development] Qt high-dpi support update

[Ben Lau]

On 21 November 2014 at 21:45, Tor Arne Vestbø <tor.arne.vestbo at digia.com>
wrote:

> On 19/11/14 09:55, Morten Johan Sørvig wrote:
> > Meeting summary:
> >
> > * Qt Quick will operate in device pixels and get one or more “device
> > independent” units (pt, cm, mm, inches, …)
>
> After chatting with the involved parties, this is a bit more detailed
> breakdown:
>
> QtQuick, from an API pow (Item { width: 500}) will continue to work in
> logical pixels. Logical, because on at least two platforms (iOS and OSX)
> the pixel is not a physical device pixel. On other platforms the logical
> pixel is typically the same as a device/physical pixel, partly because
> the platform doesn't have a concept of devicePixelRatio (yet), and
> partly because we haven't implemented support for it in the platform
> plugin, for platforms where it exists. The latter needs to be fixed by us.
>
> There will be a way to override the device-pixel-ratio on an application
> global level, typically by setting it to 1, in case you want to
> explicitly work in device/physical pixels throughout your app. This will
> influence the entire Qt coordinate system, eg. mouse events, etc, just
> like device-pixel-ratio does today. This is typically not what you would
> do for a cross-platform app, as you would have to deal with density
> differences between platforms yourself.
>
> Work will have to be done on asset management in Qt to make it easier to
> support assets with multiple density levels in a cross-platform manner.
>
> There may be introduced units in Quick that refer to an explicit pixel
> reference, eg 'px' for an explicit device/physical pixel, and 'dp' for a
> density-independent (logical) pixel (these are the names used on
> Android, just as a reference). This topic is still undecided.
>
> tor arne
>
>
Did it has any plan to make high dpi support for Android ?
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