QML Styling - what is happening in the back

Marcos P.

I'm using the same approach to define item positioning in screen (which is described in QML documentation QML Styling)
However, I'm a little concerned about what is happening in the back of my code.

As an example, let say this is my code:

// Style.qml
pragma Singleton
import QtQuick 2.0
QtObject {
 readonly property int posx: 20
 readonly property int posy: 10
}

// qmldir
singleton Style 1.0 Style.qml

// in use
import QtQuick 2.0
import "."

Text {
 x: Style.posx
 y: Style.posy
 text: "Hello World"
}

My expectation is that this will behave as const int or #define in C. Basically, the constant value will be replaced at compilation time by the compiler and no binding will be created.

I have a feeling this is not actually the case, and I would like to understand what is really happening and if there is a way to achieve a behavior similar to what I'm expecting.