[Qt-qml] Jar-like zip archive of QML code

[Adriano Rezende]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Ville M. Vainio <vivainio at gmail.com> wrote:
> Every now and again (case in points - yesterday after Tampere MeeGo
> meetup) this pops up in conversations - people seem to miss a .jar
> like archive format for QML files. Basically, this would be a zipped
> bunch of qml files, and perhaps c++ modules.

I've implemented package support some time ago for QML using tar
format as reference.

I've pushed to gitorious, if someone wants to test it:
http://gitorious.org/qmlarsenal/qmlarsenal

Basically it's a file engine that handles tar files (I use ".qar"
extension) as folders.

So you can access internal files directly from QML. Like:

Image {
     source: "./org.foobar.photo.qar/images/photo.png"
}

And also complex widgets with internal resources:

Loader {
    source: "./org.foobar.widget.qar/main.qml"
}

I've added also a QmlPackage item, which can download remote tar files
in order to run them locally.

QmlPackage {
        Loader {
            id: loader
        }
        target: loader
        source: "http://foobar.org/org.foobar.svgitem.qar"
}

There are some missing features that I have in mind like versioning
and caching but it's already useful tool.

Br,
Adriano