Qt Quick Controls style

[Martin Klapetek]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Andrew Lake <jamboarder at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Martin Klapetek wrote:
>
>> Styling, yes. Writing a real application in QtQuick...not so much :) And
>> that's imho the real problem, unless application developers will adopt
>> QtQuick as their primary tool to write apps, there will be still be a need
>> for QStyle. And personally I don't think that will happen anytime soon...
>>
>> Oh no, not the whole application, just the UI layer. I can't think of
> anything QStyle provides from a UI layer implementation standpoint that
> can't be solved with QtQuick. But perhaps I'm just ignorant in that area.
>

Basically they are two very different technologies, interfacing them is
possible, but certainly not as easy as simply using QWidget-based approach
(which is what actually uses QStyle; you never use QStyle directly), where
there is no special interface needed. To give you a better idea, imagine a
garden divided by a wall, one side is the Qt/C++/QWidgets/QStyle, the other
side is the QtQuick/QML/QtQuickControls/JavaScript. You can use both sides
at once, but you have to somehow get through the wall in the middle. And
that complicates things a bit. Plus QML and Qt/C++ are different languages
offering different features too, some C++ stuff can never be done in QML.

It most certainly is possible though, just brings in more work.

Cheers
-- 
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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