[Development] Future of Qt Quick 1 in Qt 5

[Thomas McGuire]

Hi,

On 11.05.2015 12:00, André Somers wrote:
> Simon Hausmann schreef op 11-5-2015 om 09:21:
>> On Saturday, May 09, 2015 09:59:18 PM Andre Somers wrote:
>>> On 8-5-2015 18:47, Hausmann Simon wrote:
>>>> If the public API would allow you to implement what the folks at KDAB did
>>>> at http://www.kdab.com/creating-pdf-qtquick-2-scene-slideviewer/ ‎, would
>>>> that help your use case?
>>> What they basicaly did was reimplement the Quick elements they were
>>> using, if I understood it right from an earlier time I read that blog,
>>> and then solve all kinds of issues with rendering that were already
>>> solved inside Qt itself... So, it comes down to implementing the
>>> elements of Quick 1 on your own again for the elements you need, or
>>> something close to it. It is what I called "major work" in my first
>>> reply. And indeed: I guess doing this requires heavy use of private API.
>>> So far, QML and Quick are not all that friendly for C++-side extensions...
>> This doesn't match my understanding of what they have done at all. I
>> understand their article as having basically "visited" all items in the scene
>> and having had to use private API to access the data so that they can
>> implement printing outside of Qt Quick, but still using standard Qt Quick
>> elements.
>>
>> But perhaps I misread it. What is your understanding after re-reading it?
>
> Ok, indeed, you're right. They didn't re-implement the actual items,
> they "just" reimplemented everything needed in those items to render
> them. Indeed: visiting each item and then figuring out how to render it
> completely from scratch. But they only did that for a handfull of items,
> and not taking into account all possibly relevant properties because
> they didn't use them as much.

Yep, correct. We pretty much only needed Text, Rectangle and Image for 
our usecase, and indeed didn't bother with many properties such as 
Image.TileMode.
Certainly not a very general solution, though it works nicely for us.

Regards,
Thomas
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