QML and Qt Quick

OK after mindlessly experimenting, I finally got the above plugin example to launch a clock - but I am not really sure why it should be so difficult given that many of the other examples simply work without having to do any special tricks other than qmake, build and run. Anyway here are the steps I went through and hopefully someone can let me know what step is missing in my installation. With the plugins project open, run clean, qmake & build to create the plugin dll. This built a debug plugin which was placed in the following strange folder (I don't know why QT puts files in this strange location). I would have thought it would have been placed within the project folder itself - but I guess its cleaner this way. @C:\Qt\Qt5.1.1\5.1.1\msvc2012_64_opengl\examples\qml\build-plugins-Desktop_Qt_5_1_1_MSVC2012_OpenGL_64bit-Debug\imports\TimeExample@ I then opened up a command prompt and attempted to do as per the instructions provided with the plugin @qmlscene -I imports plugins.qml@ This indicated: @file:///C:/Qt/Qt5.1.1/5.1.1/msvc2012_64_opengl/examples/qml/plugins/plugins.qml:41 module "TimeExample" plugin "qmlqtimeexampleplugin" not found@ Looks like this means that it could not find the built dll plugin. I then merged the contents of the debug build output from @C:\Qt\Qt5.1.1\5.1.1\msvc2012_64_opengl\examples\qml\build-plugins-Desktop_Qt_5_1_1_MSVC2012_OpenGL_64bit-Debug\imports\TimeExample@ into @imports\TimeExample@ basically the following build files were copied into the imports/TimeExample folder. @qmlqtimeexampleplugin.dll qmlqtimeexampleplugin.dll.embed.manifest qmlqtimeexampleplugin.dll_manifest.rc qmlqtimeexampleplugin.dll_manifest.res qmlqtimeexampleplugin.exp qmlqtimeexampleplugin.ilk qmlqtimeexampleplugin.lib qmlqtimeexampleplugin.pdb@ Then I re-ran qmlscene @qmlscene -I imports plugins.qml@ and it indicated @file:///C:/Qt/Qt5.1.1/5.1.1/msvc2012_64_opengl/examples/qml/plugins/plugins.qml:41 plugin cannot be loaded for module "TimeExample": The plugin 'C:/Qt/Qt5.1.1/5.1.1/msvc2012_64_opengl/examples/qml/plugins/imports/TimeExample/qmlqtimeexample plugin.dll' uses incompatible Qt library. (Cannot mix debug and release libraries.)@ I then added CONFIG += release to the pro file and merged teh build output and it worked!!!! OUCH how can this be so difficult!!! what is going wrong here. I am trying to create a plugin - could someone please help me to do this correctly and fix my configuration. I am a complete noob to QT and I need some experienced guidance to get me on the right track.

Thank you for the reply. I will try to test it this week.

I think that is more or less official way right now, but I'm far from being an expert in this area.

Typically keyboard suppose to be supply by the operating system. I guess you can create a custom keyboard your self with QML and handle input your self.

As I know you have to create a new project "Qt Quick 2 Application (from Existing QML file)" and include your current qml and js files there. After doing that the creating an executable is same as normal c++ program.

OK, I did indeed misunderstand you. While what I've stated above is still true (and when you pass an ID to JavaScript, you are passing a pointer, so it can be used elsewhere), you are right that in your example it will not work: because you are not instantiating the component in the first file. There are at least 3 ways of going around it: make a signal chain that will pass your pointer along the parent-child hierarchy (this is rather tedious and error prone) store the pointer as a root context property/ object (requires interfacing with C++, but is otherwise very convenient) create a QML Singleton (this is a new baby, I think it's available in Qt 5.1 or 5.2)

OK, no it did not work - the index getting to the c++ and the visual item got out of sync quickly if you did multiple up/downs. The listview knows it has 3 items so lets the index go up to 3 even though you started at -1 which is just pants so (when there are 3 items) index could by out by up to 2. My final solution was to use Keys.onReleased rather than onPressed to get a sensible index. Phew!

I have temporarily worked around this problem by hiding the parent form when the child form is shown and then showing it again when the child form is closed.

oh thanks it works

Thanks a lot :) Work perfectly :))

OK, I have this working now. But, how do you add text? i.e numbers on the axis?

Changing floating point positions to nearest integer worked! Thank you again.

Done, here it is: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-34513

Damn right you are! This was it! Wow...why is it not mentioned anywhere in the docs? Thx man, you made my day :)

Execute the application with switch -platform ./myapp -platform directfb