[Development] [Interest] [Qt3D] Mixing C++ and QML

Sean Harmer sean.harmer at kdab.com
Fri Oct 20 12:35:17 CEST 2017



On 20/10/2017 09:06, Pierre-Yves Siret wrote:
>
>
> 2017-10-19 20:44 GMT+02:00 Shawn Rutledge <Shawn.Rutledge at qt.io
> <mailto:Shawn.Rutledge at qt.io>>:
>
>     (thread started on the interest list, but I don’t think my comments
>     belong there)
>
>     On Oct 19, 2017, at 18:06, Sean Harmer <sean.harmer at kdab.com
>     <mailto:sean.harmer at kdab.com>> wrote:
>
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > you've hit one of the issues we did with exposing C++ and QML APIs. Namely, QQmlListProperty. This thing should ideally never have existed and instead support for properties of collections should have been added to QObject and the metaobject system.
>
>     What exactly do you think should be done there, in case we can fix
>     it some day?
>
>     QObjects are normally managed as a tree for memory management
>     purposes, so I’ve also long disliked the fact that it doesn’t quite
>     match the nesting of the Item declarations in QML, because of the
>     separate QList<QQuickItem *> childItems.  It’s confusing and wastes
>     memory.
>
>     QQmlListProperty is flexible about storage, since you get to write
>     all the accessors, so you can maybe use it just for QML and also
>     have normal C++ API?
>
>
> I have some gripes about QQmlListProperty too, maybe not the same ones.
>
> I agree that having a QQmlListProperty in a class supposed to be used
> from c++ looks alien.

Even worse, it pulls in a dependency on the QtQml module.

> Having it supported in the meta object sure looks enticing at a first
> view. Maybe with something like Q_LIST_PROPERTY(ElementType list GET
> getFunction COUNT countFunction ...).
> That ends up being quite like a simplified QAIM without the roles and
> the signals.

Exactly, where to draw the line between simple properties of collections 
and full-blown models?

Cheers,

Sean

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