[Interest] Scripting within Qt6 and QJSEngine

[Filippo Rusconi]

Greetings, Ulf, 

thank you for your prompt response. 

>Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 09:53:18 +0100
>From: Ulf Hermann <ulf.hermann at qt.io>
>To: interest at qt-project.org
>Subject: Re: [Interest] Scripting within Qt6 and QJSEngine
>
>Hi Filippo,
>
>the equivalent to Q_OBJECT for value types is Q_GADGET. So, your data 
>structure would look like this:
>
>struct DataPoint
>{
>    Q_GADGET
>    Q_PROPERTY(double x MEMBER x)
>    Q_PROPERTY(double y MEMBER y)
>
>public:
>    double x;
>    double y;
>}
>

Good, thank you, I'll test that.

>Now, depending on what you want to do with that in JS it may or may 
>not work. I'd need some more details there.

Sure:

DataPoint is the basic (x,y) data holder for an application that displays curves
(mass spectra) with millions of these DataPoint_s. For example, Trace is a
std::vector<DataPoint>. It derives from QObject, precisely with the idea of
making it JScriptable. Trace objects are then plot in widgets to show the
"curve".

>NB: In QML (as opposed to JS) you can register named value types these 
>days. There is the QML_VALUE_TYPE macro. In QML value types can be 
>constructible and/or structured, offering different ways to create 
>them from JS expressions. Finally, in QML, value types can be stored 
>in lists. You can have "property list<dataPoint>" if you use QML for 
>your scripting.

That is an intesting question because it somehow pin points something that is
not clear to me. Perusing the documentation, I saw that QQmlEngine derives from
QJSengine. I cannot figure out which is best to employ in my use case:
scripting a QtWidgets C++ application. Can I use QML as a scripting language in
a currently C++-only program ?

Thanking you again,

Sincerely,
Filippo

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