[Interest] replacing StatusIndicator with QML primitives

[Mike Trahearn]

Hi Glen,

The old Status indicator had a Qt Quick Controls v 1 dependency which of course is now deprecated so this could be a reason why it didn't "make the leap".

I had some trouble a few years ago with it when doing some iOS porting with regards to that older dependency.

Seeing as it is a visual only control and has no special C++ backend or annoying private implementation, it was pretty simple to make my own "extras" module and add it back as my own shared module. You would of course be able to do the same, making it as pretty as you like with effects or use photo realistic images or just some simple concentric "circular Rectangles" whose colour may be configured to whatever.

One idea is to abstract the status to the color. For example having an enumeration for Error, Warning, Success etc and then internally choose how that affects the drawing. Then your external API can use the enumeration only. That way, you can start with some rectangles and then upgrade to nicer visuals later without harming your code.

There are many ways to do it. The limit is only your imagination.

Hope that helps,

Mike


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Subject: [Interest] replacing StatusIndicator with QML primitives

The "LED" StatusIndicator (from QtQuick.Extras) didn't make the leap to Qt6, oh well.

I'm sure it's not _too_ involved to implement some of those visual effects in Qt6 -- the ones that make it look more 3-dimensional and whatever dithering effect there might have been too.

Could someone please give me a hint on which Qt6 items to use for me to construct a comparable effect?

Thanks,
Glen
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