Unsolved Experimenting with animation (I think)
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Hi all -
I've got a little time to kill this week, so naturally I thought I'd devote it to learning a new Qt skill. I'd like to learn how to create a dynamic display. The content doesn't really matter; it could be something as simple as graphing one's heart rate (assume that the data is available).
- Is this considered animation, or does animation refer to more complex graphics?
- if it is considered animation, which of the various animation classes would be recommended for something like this?
Thanks...
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- Really depends on concrete use case. Your example sounds more like plotting. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1491362/making-plot-in-qt
- This again really depends on concrete use case
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@mzimmers that also depends a lot on what technology you want to use.
Since it's a rather simple task/drawing I would do it via paintEvent override in QWidgets or a canvas in Qml
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Thanks for the replies, guys. So...at what point does a dynamic display become "animation?" Is it an abstraction of a real-life object? Pre-built scenes?
Let's say that I wanted to monitor the ink levels in a continuously running printer. (I'm stuck for a better example right now.) Would representing the ink level as sort of a vertical bar chart be considered animation?
As you can tell, I don't really know what I want to do: I'm just trying to learn some of the more interesting, advanced topics of Qt.
I do know that I'd prefer to remain in C++ instead of QML.
Thanks...
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@mzimmers said in Experimenting with animation (I think):
I do know that I'd prefer to remain in C++ instead of QML.
You can still program the drawing in C++ even for QML objects. If you would like to avoid QML altogether I understand. There are several rending options for qml including opengl I believe.
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