[Qt-qml] Working with [svg] Art

[Jason H]

I've used border images before with regular qt. I was hoping for something much more structured that could refer to inner elements for manipulation and animation. Doing things like adding gloss is way easier in SVG. 

-J


On Jul 13, 2010, at 4:40 AM, Ivan De Marino <ivan.de.marino at gmail.com> wrote:

> Small advice: PNG + the BorderImage QML element are your best friends ;)
> 
> I'm building good-looking UIs using this tandem and works good and fast.
> Of course, the designer has to understand the BorderImage Element qualities and limits, but it shouldn't take much.
> 
> On 13 July 2010 01:40, <warwick.allison at nokia.com> wrote:
> > Is there any way to  integrate SVGs  with QML, in that you can bridge
> > into the artwork via id or object name and thus use SVG as templates and
> > artwork?
> 
> The only support for SVG in QML is that it will load a static SVG image (rendering it once unless you modify the Image sourceSize dynamically).
> 
> The reason for this is that SVG is far too slow on devices, at least as currently bound in Qt (it goes via QPainter, for example).
> 
> For example, an SVG consisting of just 3 ellipses is more than 10 times slower to render than painting a pixmap. We can't see that it is reasonable to trade such performance penalty for any visual appeal that SVG could bring over static pixmaps.
> 
> It seems that SVG is fine as a source image format, but not really practical on devices as the runtime format.
> 
> > A  slightly easier, but not as awesome step would have a XML->QML
> > converter...
> > Are there any plans along these lines?
> 
> None that I'm aware of.
> 
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