value of the width

Jasur

Hello all

What is the value of the width? which is between stars
parent.width i understand, it takes Window width
import QtQuick 2.12
import QtQuick.Window 2.12

Window {
    visible: true
    width: 640
    height: 480
    title: qsTr("Hello World")

    Rectangle{
        id: root
        
        width: (parent.width-***width***)/2;
        height: 240;

        color: "#4A4A4A"

Regards,
Jasur

JKSH

@Jasur said in value of the width:

What is the value of the width?

What happens when you run your code?

Jasur

@JKSH Code runs without any errors, this example i taked from book https://qmlbook.github.io in the page: 32, and in this example from "parent.width" it subtracting "width", in the book it doesn't written what is the value of the "width". That is why i want to understand

Regards,
Jasur

sierdzio

That width comes from the Rectangle. Unless I get it wrong, it is a binding loop and QML engine will warn about it in console output.

JKSH

@Jasur said in value of the width:

this example i taked from book https://qmlbook.github.io in the page: 32, and in this example from "parent.width" it subtracting "width", in the book it doesn't written what is the value of the "width". That is why i want to understand

The book's example has x: (parent.width - width)/2 which is fine. It means, "This Rectangle's x value shall equal the parent's width minus this Rectangle's width, all divided by two".

However, the code you posted above is not fine: width: (parent.width - width)/2 means "This Rectangle's width value shall equal the parent's width minus this Rectangle's width, all divided by two". With this code, it is impossible to calculate this Rectangle's width.

Code runs without any errors

When I run your code with Qt 5.14.1, I see the following error message in Qt Creator's Application Output pane:

qrc:/main.qml:10:2: QML Rectangle: Binding loop detected for property "width"

Jasur

@JKSH thank you, now i understand

"This Rectangle's x value shall equal the parent's width minus this Rectangle's width, all divided by two".

about my code, i am using Qt 5.12, maybe that is why i don't see any error and maybe i disabled LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the project, because of swrast, but tottaly it runs perfect.

Thank you very much for explaining.

Regards,
Jasur

Jasur

@sierdzio Thank you for explaining