Reusing parts of Krita for a QtQuick 2.0 mobile application

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wednesday 04 December 2013 Dec 08:53:06 Alberto Mardegan wrote:
> Hi all!
>   Sometimes in the future, I'd like to build a QtQuick 2.0 module that
> provides some building blocks for graphic applications. The primary
> focus would be mobile applications.
> 
> My first idea was to improve the existing Qt bindings for the GEGL
> library (the one used in the latest GIMP). If the QML bindings are
> well-written, that should give developers the ability to work with
> layers, performs quite a few operations on them and see the results in
> real-time.
> 
> But before getting started with GEGL, I'd also like to explore other
> possibilities (especially if that can help me in reducing the
> dependencies). So, the question is: does Krita depend on some
> libraries/modules that could be easily wrapped in a QML API and could be
> used as a building block for a graphic application?
> 
> I tried to have a look at the source code, but there are many
> directories and I'm not sure where to look. :-)

Well, one thing you could do is take a look at calligra/krita/sketch -- that is basically a QML application that wraps Krita's libraries.

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Boudewijn Rempt
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