[Interest] Custom QtQuick Animator API?

[Gunnar Sletta]

> On 22 Jan 2015, at 15:37, Ola Røer Thorsen <ola at silentwings.no> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I would like to create a custom Animator class, or something similar that can manipulate a QQuickItem's x and y position from the render thread.

You cannot manipulate an item’s x and y from the render thread. You can only operate on the scene graph nodes. 
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> The intended use is to move some label items on top of a 3d scene. The labels will follow certain entities in the 3d scene. I know it will mostly work by just setting the label item's x and y properties, but it will not be as smooth as possible. 
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> I've been looking into the Animator source code, which is all private API. Are there any plans to make a public API for the Animators in a later Qt version? 

No such plan, no :)

Doing custom animations on your nodes is easy using the QSGNode API though. For instance, like it is done in the “threadedanimation” example: https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtdeclarative/source/817cd03a5f437c9e8862646cca5ea016b1223bc7:examples/quick/scenegraph/threadedanimation <https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qtdeclarative/source/817cd03a5f437c9e8862646cca5ea016b1223bc7:examples/quick/scenegraph/threadedanimation>

cheers,
Gunnar

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> Alternatively, is there some way to get the root item node as returned by QQuickItemPrivate::itemNode(), without using the private API? Any other hints on how to do this?
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> Thanks,
> Ola
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