[Interest] "Flat Light" Style How?

Mon Feb 9 16:04:52 CET 2015

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason H [mailto:jhihn at gmx.com]
> Sent: Friday, 6 February 2015 3:09 PM
> To: Curtis Mitch
> Cc: Agocs Laszlo; interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: RE: [Interest] "Flat Light" Style How?
> 
> All pretty simple:
> 
> 1) Font sizes are simply too small.

I'm not sure if this is specific to your use case or if you mean that it's illegible in general. We've tested the style on embedded, desktop and mobile devices, and it was definitely legible. The text size is based off the default font size for the device, so if that's being set incorrectly, the text size will be wrong (and it will affect other things that rely on the default font size, like Qt Quick Controls).

Please create a bug report so that we can take a look.

> 2) I want to colorize the button. Flat style uses green accents, I want
> them to be various colors, like orange or blue.
> 3) Sometimes, I want the button to be that solid color with white text.

Per-control customisations like this require use of the styling API that is not supported, as mentioned before. This is not specific to the Enterprise Controls, it's just that Qt Quick Controls wasn't designed for this use case. The idea is that you can customise a control using the Base style, but if you're using a derived style, you use it more or less as-is.

However, it is possible, and we need to do it ourselves in some places. You need to import the Flat style into a namespace (here, it's "Flat") and then qualify the style name with that namespace:

style: Flat.CircularGaugeStyle {
    tickmarkStepSize: 20
    labelStepSize: 40
    minorTickmarkCount: 2
}

> 
> If I can't use Flat style, we're going to stop paying for mobile because
> we only got it because my boss liked it and thought it was as
> dynamically changable as a regular QML element. But if we can't change
> fonts, font sizes and colors (basic stuff) then it's no good to us.
>
> And I'm going to go off-topic rant here.
> 
> I was hoping the paid support option wound be worth something. So far it
> hasn't. Currently, I'm struggling with 4 day response times, in which I
> get a basic sentence or question then I have to wait another 4 days.
> Sure I could upgrade to 2-day, but that's not the point. I think if I
> reply in the same hour or day I should be able to get a response faster.
> 
> The other reason why we got a Qt Desktop license was to use the Charts
> module, but it's not usable on a headless the server without some effort
> (I have to recompile everything) (compilers are not allowed on
> production servers) there is no command line installer (coming in 5.5?).
> But when I do use the chart module it elides all the text because I am
> rendering to QPdfWriter, and QPdfWriter doesn't account for pointSizes
> on various DPIs correctly, so I have to multiply it by 4 (300 logical
> dpi/72 assumed DPI=4)But now it thinks everything is too long. So the
> chart module doesn't work for us either. (I blame it on QPdfWiter
> fundamentally, but the charts module renders the graphics & line widths
> correctly so Charts has its own issue with deciding to elide text)
> 
> So I'm having to take actions that would rid ourselves of our need for
> commercial licenses. I was happier when we were just using the
> OpenSource stuff... when there was  no expectation of support. IRC and
> this Mailing list are far more effective at support than the commercial
> support channel.  I've been responsible for multiple companies buying Qt
> Enterprise licenses in the Trolltech days. And when I used support back
> then, I actually got what I would call "reasonable support". I'd even
> get code patches for fix bugs.  Right now I feel like I'm getting strung
> along, paying for abuse. If you're going to charge someone for something,
> you have to make sure they think the price is worth it.  I dove into the
> commercial offerings, and every time I hit bottom immediately. Or some
> rice-paper analogy.
> 
> And if you say I should upgrade our plan to the next level, that's going
> to be a very hard sell at this point. Our one closed issue thus far is
> one that changed a flag on a bug I already filed to 'Requested via Qt
> Support' And that issue isn't fixed yet either.
> 
> > Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 at 8:13 AM
> > From: "Curtis Mitch" <mitch.curtis at theqtcompany.com>
> > To: "Jason H" <jhihn at gmx.com>, "Agocs Laszlo"
> <laszlo.agocs at theqtcompany.com>
> > Cc: "interest at qt-project.org" <interest at qt-project.org>
> > Subject: RE: [Interest] "Flat Light" Style How?
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: interest-bounces+mitch.curtis=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org
> > > [mailto:interest-bounces+mitch.curtis=theqtcompany.com at qt-
> project.org]
> > > On Behalf Of Jason H
> > > Sent: Thursday, 5 February 2015 7:46 PM
> > > To: Agocs Laszlo
> > > Cc: interest at qt-project.org
> > > Subject: Re: [Interest] "Flat Light" Style How?
> > >
> > > Oh thanks!
> > >
> > > So immedautely, I notice issues.
> > >
> > > Any control that has text (TextField, Button) is not properly
> accounting
> > > for a specified pointSize.
> > >
> > > How do I inherit from a flat style for a button?
> > >
> >
> > What is your use case, exactly? It's nice to know what you'd like to
> achieve using the Flat style.
> >
> > >
> > > > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 at 12:11 PM
> > > > From: "Agocs Laszlo" <laszlo.agocs at theqtcompany.com>
> > > > To: "Jason H" <jhihn at gmx.com>
> > > > Cc: "interest at qt-project.org" <interest at qt-project.org>
> > > > Subject: Re: [Interest] "Flat Light" Style How?
> > > >
> > > > QT_QUICK_CONTROLS_STYLE applies to all controls. Don't be misled
> by
> > > the fact that the page is for enterprise controls.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Laszlo
> > > >
> > > > ________________________________________
> > > > From: Jason H <jhihn at gmx.com>
> > > > Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2015 6:06 PM
> > > > To: Agocs Laszlo
> > > > Cc: interest at qt-project.org
> > > > Subject: Re: [Interest] "Flat Light" Style How?
> > > >
> > > > "The Qt Quick Enterprise Controls Styles module allows custom
> styling
> > > for Qt Quick Enterprise Controls."
> > > >
> > > > I want standard controls to be styled too... I thought that it
> would
> > > style all controls, not just the enterprise ones as seen in
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMs1pSZMnG0 about 2:00 in. The page
> you
> > > directed me to only lists:
> > > > CircularGaugeStyle
> > > > DelayButtonStyle
> > > > DialStyle
> > > > GaugeStyle
> > > > PieMenuStyle
> > > > StatusIndicatorStyle
> > > > ToggleButtonStyle
> > > > TumblerStyle
> > > >
> > > > I hope there are more styles than that?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 at 11:59 AM
> > > > > From: "Agocs Laszlo" <laszlo.agocs at theqtcompany.com>
> > > > > To: "Jason H" <jhihn at gmx.com>, "interest at qt-project.org"
> > > <interest at qt-project.org>
> > > > > Subject: Re: [Interest] "Flat Light" Style How?
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > See
> > >
> http://doc.qt.io/QtQuickEnterpriseControls/qtquickenterprisecontrolsstyl
> > > es-index.html regarding switching styles.
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > Laszlo
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ________________________________________
> > > > > From: interest-bounces+laszlo.agocs=theqtcompany.com at qt-
> project.org
> > > <interest-bounces+laszlo.agocs=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org> on
> > > behalf of Jason H <jhihn at gmx.com>
> > > > > Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2015 5:52 PM
> > > > > To: interest at qt-project.org
> > > > > Subject: [Interest] "Flat Light" Style How?
> > > > >
> > > > > I have a commercial license and I can not find any info on how
> to
> > > use "Flat Light" style.
> > > > >
> > > > > Can someone clue me in?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks!
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