[Interest] [Qt-creator] Raise awareness: Qt Quick Designer's need for love

[Eric Feigenson]

I've found, also on a Mac, that I can't even resize a widget.  The resize-arrow thing may appear, but clicking and dragging just moves the widget around

One other thing I found intermittently, is that sometimes a change I make in the Designer doesn't show up when I go to edit the .qml file, but not vice versa.

Nice to see I'm not alone...

On Feb 21, 2014, at 6:48 PM, vstevenpavao at yahoo.com wrote:

> The 2 main problems I've seen with Designer on Mac:
> 
> 1. If width and height of a component aren't explicitly listed, Designer can't show an accurate representation of the area of the component (even if default width and height are specified inside the component).
> 
> 2.  Dragging widgets is slow and unreliable, even on a multi-core MacBook Pro; why use the tool if dragging widgets isn't easy and reliable?
> 
> Without these basic things, it's hard to consider using Designer on Mac.
> 
> - VStevenP
> 
> On Feb 20, 2014, at 4:12 AM, Miettinen Riitta-Leena <Riitta-Leena.Miettinen at digia.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Did you take a look at the docs to find out which features the Qt Quick Designer offers: 
>> 
>> http://qt-project.org/doc/qtcreator-3.0/creator-visual-editor.html
>> 
>> The docs are also accessible from the Help mode in Qt Creator. 
>> 
>> Positioning items on screens (including anchoring) is explained here, for example:
>> 
>> http://qt-project.org/doc/qtcreator-3.0/quick-screens.html
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Leena
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>> On Feb 20, 2014, at 1:03 AM, Jason H wrote:
>> 
>>> I gave designer a shot last night and I agree, its unusable. I could not figure out how to do anything other than drag controls around. No anchors, etc.
>>> 
>>> The Widget designer is heaven. Couldn't we steal code from that and do Quick layouts that way?
>>> 
>>> From: Ariel Molina R. <ariel at edis.mx>
>>> To: qt-creator at qt-project.org 
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:41 PM
>>> Subject: [Qt-creator] Raise awareness: Qt Quick Designer's need for love
>>> 
>>> Hello, 
>>> 
>>> This is an email to raise awareness about the lack of love the Qt Quick Designer is getting since Qt Quick 2.0.
>>> 
>>> Qt Quick is announced as a great alternative to creating fluid UI's, and it really is (assuming the qml2puppet and QtC Designer are stabilized). I just list a few of the more severe bugs affecting the stability and breaking the QtC Quick Designer in ways that almost make it unusable.
>>> 
>>> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTCREATORBUG-11134
>>> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTCREATORBUG-11511
>>> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTCREATORBUG-9645
>>> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTCREATORBUG-10515
>>> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTCREATORBUG-9396
>>> 
>>> And other not so severe but easily fixed:
>>> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTCREATORBUG-10741
>>> 
>>> Also Qt:
>>> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-36932
>>> 
>>> Can you please take a look, im tracking QtC master daily (GMT-6) and can help test any patches.
>>> 
>>> Ariel
>>> 
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