[Qt-qml] Cannot store javascript object in property, why?

[jyrki.yli-nokari at nokia.com]

Check out http://developer.qt.nokia.com/wiki/JavaScript_programmer

On 17.12.2010 15.54, "ext Ville M. Vainio" <vivainio at gmail.com> wrote:

>Currently, you cannot store javascript objects as properties in qml
>components, e.g. you can't do
>
>propery JSRef myobj
>
>function setCallback(f) { myobj = f };
>
>On irc #qt-qml, this explanation was quoted:
>
>QQQ
>In QML "property var" cannot store JavaScript native objects, as we
>cannot bind to them. This might change in a future release. For now,
>more explicit warnings are generated when you accidentally do this.
>QQQ
>
>I can't claim to understand the explanation, but I'm curious whether
>we will have this feature in the near future - as the lack of it seems
>to be a pretty fundamental shortcoming in QML, and workarounds (like
>storing the reference in a .js file, or using C++) seem quite hacky in
>comparison.
>
>-- 
>Ville M. Vainio @@ Forum Nokia
>_______________________________________________
>Qt-qml mailing list
>Qt-qml at qt.nokia.com
>http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-qml